Iowa City, Iowa, USA phone: 630 677 0227 email: design@zzGassman.com copyright, zzGassman, 2010
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About the Workshop zzGassman Design Workshop is an interdisciplinary design collaborative established in 2008 by Bob and Shannon Gassman (formerly Shannon Jones). Trained in a breadth of design skills and craft traditions, zzGassman offers the knowledge and ability to generate a diverse range of digital, physical, and conceptual products. The workshop operates as a live/work practice that comprehensively unites the act of design and the process of living. We collaborate as a husband wife team and operate as a sole propietorship. Located in Iowa City, Iowa, our design firm serves a variety of clients locally, throughout the Midwest and nationwide.
Good Design For better or for worse, design has a profound impact on the lives of every living thing. From the buttons on our shirts, to the foods that we eat, to the road signs we pass by daily, design is everywhere and may be the single greatest factor that influences the quality of our lives and our world. Unfortunately, much of our society is forced to live with shortcomings of products and ideas that have been poorly designed and inadequately scrutinized, such as unnavigable websites, illegible signs and instructions, and non-sustainable packaging and products. It does not have to be this way. Good design makes a difference! zzGassman is dedicated to good design. Through critical analysis, thoughtful decision-making, and inventive production, we provide a crucial ingredient for improving our world. It is our personal goal to make a positive contribution by providing meaningful design for everyday life.
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Additionally, we maintain a diverse education in art and design, and frequently work in the fields of product design, photography, architecture, interior design, and handcraft. We are always pursuing new challenges that allow us to cultivate impactful and encompassing solutions.
Wunderkammer Explore, Examine, Ponder. This is the zzGassman wunderkammer, our collection of natural curiosities and inspiring artifacts gathered from the physical and ephemeral world around us. As part of our design process, we maintain a diverse cabinet of curiosities to catalog our life experiences and constantly nourish our minds. Circulate through the current collection using the navigation below.
Resources Educate, Learn, Communicate. Websites, readings, and sources that continue to educate and provoke us: Davis Studio Architecture & Design Form Design Architecture Jonathan Muecke, artist Mikesch Muecke, polytekton Mitchel Squire, artist Neumann Monson Architects Peter Goche, artist
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phone: 630 677 0227 email: design@zzGassman.com
Selected Works
apple cores, 2007 jerky skulls, 2007 an allegory, 2004 lying lips, 2007 caravaggio oil paint study, 2007 still life, chalk pastel, 2004 whisker farmer, 2007
Craft zportrait, 2006 bowl sets, 2008 vessels, 2008 dinner plates, 2008 felt bowl, 2008 oven mitt, 2009 scarf production, 2009 lace, 2010 baby booties, 2010 knit & purl, 2010
Wall Art rojas monster, 2010 rojas monster, 2010 black line rojas, 2009 jones rojas, 2009 green rojas, 2010 beelzebob, 2007 besus, 2007, Iowa State University Studies in Creativity exhibition 2007 still life panel, 2007
Art Object a game of wit, 2009 leaves: artificial & natural, 2008 paper wood, 2007 skeeter mask, 2008 ceramic mask, 2008 monster sketchbook, 2010 doily, lasercut template, 2008
Installation carrot finger, 2008 graph paper w/o graph, 2007 line paper w/o lines, 2007 carrots, 2007 night of the rojas, 2008 mice, 2007 recycle bike rack, 2005, installed, Rack'N'Roll, bike rack, competition, Des Moines, IA zmass of creation, 2007
Product oranges lamp, 2007, featured, Iowa Architect, magazine, 2008 onion lamp, 2007, featured, Iowa Architect, magazine, 2008 husk lamp, 2006, featured, Iowa Architect, magazine, 2008 cotyledon lamp, 2007, featured, Iowa Architect, magazine, 2008 soy-plastic glasses, 2007 smoke detector clock, 2007 oak & steel smoke detector, 2007 smoke detector clock, 2007 incrementally advanced electrical components, 2009
Photo/Photography geothermal pool, 2010 devonian fossil gorge, 2010 chicken of the woods fungus, 2008 bathtub centipede, 2010 library moth, 2009 yellow-shafted northern flicker, 2009 mulch, 2008 bluebird, 2010 landscape, 2010 storage garages, 2010 cartech, 2008 mail trucks, 2008
Architecture/Architect Media Library, Montreal, 2006, construction specifications institute, competition winner, CSI media library, photo collage, 2006, construction specifications institute, competition winner, CSI media library, louver model, 2006, construction specifications institute, competition winner, CSI Midwest Solar Home, 2007 solar diagram, 2007 Iowa Winery, 2005 Iowa Winery, design drawings, 2005 hobo museum, proposal, 2008 hobo museum, display model, 2008, implemented, in redesign of, National Hobo Musuem, Britt, Iowa, 2008 new york city housing, 2006 New York City housing bedroom, 2006
Digital zzGassman portfolio website, 2009 zzGassman interactive presentation, 2009, presented at Catalyst State: 20 x 2010, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, 2009
Graphic magazine cover, 2009 Iowa Architect, cover & layout published 2009 magazine layout & design, 2009, Iowa Architect, cover & layout published, 2009 biographical arithmetic, 2009 educational scavenger hunt brochure, 2010, distributed to, schools, and libraries, throughout Iowa City and, Cedar Rapids, 2010 promotional event poster, 2010, see also, CRICAC, scavenger hunt, national hobo museum logo, 2008 implemented by the National Hobo Museum, 2008 folk/rock/funk band poster, 2008 bicycle rack poster, 2005 doy floy, 2008 mastication wallpaper, 2007 sustainable house of cards, 2008 event identity and package, 2009, low cost, efficient invitations and, hand-outs, community organization logo, 2010
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