Sep 14 - present COMMUNITY GUILDS’ STE(A)M TRUCK | Decatur, GA

Maker Mentor

Spark interest in STEM & Arts skills among elementary and middle school students as part of STE(A)M Truck, the most impactful hands-on, minds-on after-school program in the Southeast.

Demonstrate digital fabrication, product design, woodworking techniques, 3D printing, and CNC routing to youth in order to promote creative STEM learning and the Maker Movement.

Aug 14 - present SAFI CHOO TOILET | Atlanta, GA

Industrial Designer

Develop low-cost, sustainable sanitation solution for use in the developing world. Manufacture prototypes for proof-of-concept and user testing in Nairobi and Kenya. Participate in the National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps startup business

accelerator. Conduct customer discovery and qualitative ethnography through dozens of interviews.

Aug 14 - present DAYDREAM PRODUCTS, LTD. | Atlanta, GA

Industrial Designer

Design alongside engineers to patent and sell products to brands like The Sharper Image.

Integrate brand language into products and create sell sheets for Daydream’s clients. Develop portfolio and website content for Daydream through photography, sketches, and

CAD.

May 13 - Aug 13 ARCHITECTURAL WOOD, LLC | Atlanta, GA

Industrial Design Intern

Collaborate with design team to design and build furniture in established Atlanta woodmill.

Interface with clients and suppliers, conduct cost analyses. Interactwithshopanddesignpersonneltoensurefurnitureisbeingbuilttospecification.

Aug 10 - May 14 GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | Atlanta, GA

Bachelor of Science in Industrial Design, Cum Laude Honors Graduate

Student Merit Award Winner | Industrial Design Society of America (2014) Exchange student at Lund University in Lund, Sweden (2013) TechBurst Award Winner | Center for 21st Century Education (2012) Rower | Georgia Tech Crew Team (2010-2012)

sklashinsky@gmail.com770 . 298 . 95674831 Dunwoody JunctionDunwoody, GA 30338

Photo by Phil Nix | November 2014

As a Maker Mentor with Community Guilds’s STE(A)M Truck, it’s my job to spark interest in STEM & Arts skills among elementary and middle school students as part of a hands-on, minds-on after-school program. We introduce young people to tools and tech.

I’m an Industrial Design consultant for an Atlanta productdesignfirmthatspecializesinpatenting concepts, then selling the patents to brands like The Sharper Image.

As the Industrial Design Lead for a startup in the public health sector, I led the redesign of a toilet for use in the developing world. I participated in the NSF’s iCorps incubator to conduct customer discovery.

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I want to design a lamp that economizesdeskspace.Ifirstlook to precedents in the market to see what exists already. IKEA has a clamp-on desk lamp with an articulating shade-- it takes up virtually no work space! As long as your desk can accomodate it. I want to design a lamp that will work on every tabletop surface. I compare existing products on a two-axis chart - function vs. footprint - and determine that there is a gap in the market for a high-fashion lamp with a small footprint.

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Birds have an inborn proclivity for physics. Even in strong gales, they can use their tails to offset the weight of their entire bodies. They balance on small surfaces -- twigs, telephone wires -- on spindly legs. I want to apply this principle to my lamp to minimize its footprint as much as possible.

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It’s all you need.The lamp rests on a 1” mahogany cube with a small notch in it. The weight of the battery-powered lamp is cantilevered by a polished wooden ball, which was lathed by hand.

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She emphasized the importance of family dinners, and saw to it that we had good food & good conversation every single night. She welcomed guests into our home and made mealtimes into grand events. This time of our day -time to catch up and listen to one another- is the glue that keeps our family so cozy. The salt and pepper have a mother-and-child relationship to one another as a nod to my own mom.

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MybosstoldmeonmyveryfirstdayofmyinternshipwithanAtlantacabinet shop and furniture designer. He all but handed me a toothbrush to get started with. By the end of the summer, in addition to having assembled small production runs of side lights, refurbished and installed whole kitchens of cabinets and managed books, I’d churned out a small series of furniture that was repurposing these old railroad carts.

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These are kitchens we worked on over the course of the summer, and are exemplary of the tastes of the client I was designing for -- upscale, modern, and spacious...

...and these are the pieces I designed and built to work in these spaces. From top left, moving counterclockwise, a wine rack, coffee table, and love seat.28

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And that adds up. I wanted to design a better on-the-go journaling solutionformyself.Smallerjournalsthatfitinthepalmofmyhandcouldfitinmywalletorbackpocket,meaningIcouldjotdownlittlemomentsthroughout the day. In the interest of maintaining some of the familiarity of my classic marble-covered books, groups of four jotbooks come in a folio with the exact same dimensions of my old friend, the composition book.

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We were a team of four from four different countries, all studying in Sweden. We were tasked with desiging a Room of Silence for Malmö’s SturupAirport.ARoomofSilenceisaspacereservedforprayer,reflection,and quiet. Our team visited Copenhagen Airport’s Room of Silence as a precedent study.

Through extensive customer discovery, we found that we were serving two distinct groups of Sweden’s airport-goers: Muslim taxi drivers, and the secular, traveling Swede. Our client asked that the seating be comfortable for short-term use, but not so comfortable that passengers fall asleep, which inconveniences airport employees and passengers alike.42

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And there’s space for everyone. Our Room of Silence proposal features a lightweight s-shaped screen dividing the room into two designations: You enter through the main seating area, where curved benches embrace users in a “hug”, while asmallopenflamefeatureinthemiddleofthespace offers physical and metaphorical warmth. Intheprayer-specificspace,thereisadequate floorspaceforprayermats. Considerations for the directions of Mecca and Jerusalem were made in orienting the interiors. 47

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This is the premise of “Make 10 Marketplace”, a showcase and sale of Georgia Tech Industrial design work. The project seeks to push students to design with industrial manufacturing processes in mind, and to consider the many costs of bringing a product to market in order to turn a profit.

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Newly home from my semester abroad, I was hooked on the Swedish cultural phenomenon of fika, a time of day dedicated to breaking from work to sip a coffee and talk with friends and colleages. I decided to design espresso cupsasatributetomymanyfika-feuleddesigndiscussionsabroad,

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The slip-castcupsweredesignedtofitashot of espresso, and to nest neatly within one another. A blue glaze was added to the lip of some cups as an accent.

The surfacing for the trays that held the two-cup sets lent itself well to CNC routing. I then rolled each tray’s underside along a table mill to lift the edge of the tray from the tabletop.

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The cups were a hit, sets selling for $20 each. I did not sell out (8 sets sold), but did manage to turnaprofit, contributing to the class’s pot.

At the end of the semester, we used our earnings for a big group lunch at a Philly Cheesesteak place nearby. Semester well spent.

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Sarah Lashinskysklashinsky@gmail.com770 . 298 . 95674831 Dunwoody JunctionDunwoody, GA 30338