about
Charlie Grisham is an artist and designer currently based between New York City and Austin, Texas.
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projects

Shadow Puppet
Shadow Puppet is a desk lamp with an anatomical form. Made from 3D printed PLA and a vacuum-formed transparent PETG gobo containing a small steel ball bearing, an LED projects the shape of the puppet’s insides onto the surface below. The ball bearing rolls through the interior of the gobo, outlining its cavities and altering the shadow that it produces. The projected shadows place us directly inside of the puppet, externalizing the internal corporeality of its body like peering through an x-ray. The lamp is interacted with by gently pulling the limbs, which directs the ball bearing toward the different spaces inside, taking advantage of a fully analog interface, and mimicking the control of a marionette puppet.

The Fortune Teller
The Fortune Teller is a small table that transforms familiar childhood iconography into furniture that packs into a flat, 2’x2’ square. The result is a fully diagrammatic object decorated with glyphs that subvert the traditional furniture assembly process. The need for instructions is bypassed as the table becomes a manual for itself, and building it becomes a puzzle... just like an origami fortune teller.

Hydrant
Hydrant is a water bottle that can attach to fire hydrants. Comprised of hard ABS plastic and an internal flexible silicone adapter that can fit onto any fire hydrant spray cap in New York City, Hydrant utilizes the already-existing infrastructure of the city's 170,000 fire hydrants to create public access points for water.

Steam House
A proposal for my Thesis Formulation class, where my goal was to create new functionalities using the untapped potential of byproduct steam from a tea kettle. My plan was to design an interconnected system for making tea that boils the water, waters the tea tree, grinds the leaves, and more. The system is connected with a series of valves, which allow for modular connection points so the user can rearrange components at their discretion, while also giving them a degree of control over the amount of steam at each point along the line.

First Blush
In an attempt to simulate and interact with imagery of the collective unconscious, five 3D printed sculptures were produced using artificial intelligence trained on thousands of artifact images divided into five categories: the Cup, the Scale, the Instrument, the Wheel, and the Weapon. Each object is embedded with a USB containing the First Blush software, which you can plug into your computer to view research, data, and other media content associated with the sculpture.

Panorizon
Second place prize-winning Panorizon theme in a Huawei/HONOR Global Design Competition, for the SmartWatch ES. The graphic is a 180 degree panoramic view of the sky flanked by the East and West horizons at either end, using a model of the Sun in linear movement to tell the time from bottom to top. When the Sun passes behind each horizon, it turns into the Moon and day turns into night.