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Jeff Smith

Design Director — Pompano Beach, FL

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Published:: Dec 28, 2007

Industrial Design

Concept Sketches - Linework- Multiple Ideas per page

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Sharpie Thumbs

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Slap a little color and volume on the boat.

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Cross over market watches - Pilot razor point thums.
MX-PWC-Steet Bike Watch/Products applications

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Sharpie Concepts - Quick thumbnails done the other day.

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Watch Thumbs

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Pilot Razorpoint Thumbs

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Baby Sippers - More Sketches

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Baby Sippies

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Pilot Razorpoint Thumbs

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Sharpie Thumbs

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Pilot Razor Point Thumb

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Carry on Bag Concepts - Pilot razor point on letter paper

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Carry on Bag Concepts - Sharpie on letter

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Carry on Bag Concepts

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Carry on Bag Concepts

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Carry on Bag Concepts

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Carry on Bag Concepts

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Carry on Bag Concepts

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Carry on Bag Concepts

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Carry on Bag Concepts

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Carry on Bag Concepts

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Irons and PWC - Pilot razor point on letter.

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Thumbnails. - Pilot razor point on letter.

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Vibrators - Pilot on Letter.

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Cars and Bike - Sharpie on Letter.

Car? - Sharpie on Letter.

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Speeders? - Warm Grey AP and Pilot razor point on Letter.

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Trans thumbnails - Quick set of thumbnails done with ballpoint on construction paper.

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Trans thumbnails - 15 minute set of thumbnails on blue copy paper with a red prismacolor. Drawing with my son this afternoon.

Meeting Sketch - Did this sketch page while at a meeting in Germany. Fun to draw on note pages sometimes.

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"Massagers" - Entry for the 1HDC. Under an hour ball point pen on canson! Old school with a little white colored pencil!

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Concept Sketches - Medium Sharpie on Copy paper. Just a warm up page from the other day.

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Line work Sketch - Pilot medium on letter paper. Quick warm up concepts.

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Weapon Design - A quick sketch page of weapons. Pilot razor point on letter size copy paper. All first off sketches, no underlay.

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Aircraft Concepts - Quick sketch on canson paper. Ball point, AP Markers and a little white pencil. I was motivated by the single plane sketch yesterday.

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Boat speakers that adjust? - Quick canson sketch page with a little white pencil.

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Boat theme items - White pencil on canson paper. 10-15 minutes.

Notes sketch - Quick page of ball point pen sketches on note paper.

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PTL Meeting - Set of thumbnail sketches from a PTL meeting last night. Ball point on 9x12" drawing paper.

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Concept Thumbnails - Set of sketches while traveling. Ball point on 9x12 page.

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From one of my workshops at the 2012 Thought @ Work Conference (RIT) this past weekend. On the fly thumbnails for watches based on student selected category.

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Old school canson paper sketch with a little marker and white pencil from this past weekend. Hosted several sketch workshops for the team at Thought @ Work Conference (RIT). Student selected topic for the bag, and a request for how to show transparent on the lower left.

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Again, at Thought @ Work over the weekend (RIT). Fun time and lots of energy filled designers. This was a request to show an intermediate sketch after a thumbnail concept.

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Quick set of sketches. Felt pen on canson paper.

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Jeff Smith May 19, 2012

Thanks Victor!
Victor Cheung May 19, 2012

Great sketches Jeff ! both for the creativity and execution, it's very inspiring !
Jeff Smith Dec 20, 2011

Thanks Anthony!
Jeff Smith Dec 20, 2011

Thanks Anthony!
Jeff Smith Apr 01, 2011

Thanks Carl!
Carl Andersen Apr 01, 2011

Jeff, your work is such great inspiration!
Prad Savania Mar 16, 2011

Cool concept sketches Jeff..........great job Come & see my illustrations also? They're more Footwear design related...
Jeff Smith Feb 21, 2011

Thanks Emil!
Emil Flecha Feb 21, 2011

Superb and strong styling!
Jeff Smith Dec 22, 2010

Thanks Jonathan.
Jonathan Niemuth Dec 22, 2010

I like the vehicle in the bottom left
Jeff Smith Sep 18, 2010

Thanks gino. This was all on a piece of canson paper.
Jeff Smith May 25, 2010

Thanks Rob.
Robert Mir May 25, 2010

Must have been one hell of a boring meeting jeff! Nonetheless once again you produce veryy clean sketches
Jeff Smith Apr 21, 2010

I thought it was Pittsburg?
Brandegee Pierce Apr 21, 2010

Our new chair is an Interior Design teacher. I don't foresee good things in the future if things don't change soon. The new professor from Philadelphia seems very good and will hopefully help the program. Time will tell.
Jeff Smith Apr 14, 2010

Brandegee, how is it going at the ai? Heard a little here and there. Not much news that I get now.
Brandegee Pierce Apr 14, 2010

Roberts right, we are down to one industrial design teacher. I am glad I got to learn what did in time.
Jeff Smith Mar 21, 2010

Right on!
Konstantinos Tsiopanos Mar 21, 2010

Yeah I tried it, and crashed and burned. haha. I just need to practice. Thanks for the clue!
Jeff Smith Mar 21, 2010

Dino, does that mean you tried Canson or construction paper over the weekend? The clue (to full layout) is draw one, two ot three main images, then fill in a few concepts that "take up" the left over negative space. You would be surprised what you come up with when you are "just filling in space". Thanks.
Konstantinos Tsiopanos Mar 21, 2010

Amazing work as usual! I have a new found respect for the Canson sketches you do. They are all so clean. You also have an amazing ability for nailing the layout of your sketches right off the bat, especially on your ideation pages--ridiculous. Love the jet on the top right-- and great view of the plane on the bottom left.
Niklas Karlsson Mar 07, 2010

overall very pleasant sketchwork on all of these sketchpages, fun to watch
Jeff Smith Feb 17, 2010

Way out of my hands Robert.
Robert Mir Feb 17, 2010

sick. we need u back at school jeff, brent cant hold down the fort ALL by himself
Jeff Smith Feb 07, 2010

Thanks Ryan!
Ryan Mather Feb 06, 2010

I love the looseness of your linework. So fresh and relaxed!
Jeff Smith Jan 29, 2010

Thanks the Josh.
Joshua Probst Jan 28, 2010

I like the "cartridge" on #2.
Jeff Smith Jan 25, 2010

Thanks Diego!
Diego Guevara Jan 24, 2010

amazing...!!!
Jeff Smith Jan 24, 2010

Thanks Joe!
Joe MacCarthy Jan 24, 2010

Softy Blast...nice.
Jeff Smith Dec 30, 2009

Thanks man! Lots of practice!
Melzario Davis Dec 30, 2009

i thought my line work was good. urs is just plain ridiculous (in a good way) lol
Jeff Smith Dec 16, 2009

Thanks Adam! Draw a page everyday! Draw with pen and complete pages!
Jeff Smith Dec 16, 2009

Adam, thanks for the comment. To your question, no these were not sketched out in pencil first. These are all done on one sheet of copy paper in pilot pen. No copy and paste in PS. Draw in pen, it makes you better and force yourself to complete full origional pages like this. It is great training.
Adam Borton Dec 16, 2009

where are the mistakes?!! i need to get practicing..
Adam Borton Dec 16, 2009

lovely. did u sketch these out in pencil first?
Jeff Smith Oct 27, 2009

Thanks! I try to put life in there!
abhishek bhartiya Oct 27, 2009

man Jeff..ur sketches are very much alive man..they just talk for themselves..no explanation required.. LIKELY'd :)
Jeff Smith Sep 20, 2009

No worries, I go the joke!
Conny S Sep 20, 2009

sure, u can! Just do it - it's okay, i like it! (i was just kiddin') sorry, mate ... ;-)
Jeff Smith Sep 20, 2009

What, I can't sketch fun shapes for a fun product? :()
Conny S Sep 20, 2009

Hope, you know them from fun factory? But why the hell is a man like you developing vibrators? :-) really funny!
Dan Bishop Aug 25, 2009

Yeah, Canson FTW!!!
Jeff Smith Aug 25, 2009

Thanks Jonathan and Dan!
Dan Bolinski Aug 25, 2009

loving the green canson paper!
Jonathan Osborne IDSA Aug 22, 2009

Great Jeff always great work
Jeff Smith Aug 22, 2009

Thanks Roshan! Tell him to post a comment (if he hasn't).
Roshan Hakkim Aug 22, 2009

hot n clean sketches...I have a classmate who is a big fan of your work...he would be thrilled to see this...cheers
Jeff Smith Jul 02, 2009

Thanks Robert! That is one of the reasons I am a fan of sketching like this on the same page. Too many people cut and paste what they like onto a "summary" page. Seeing the evolution on paper (as you pointed out) is very important.
Robert Liddell Jul 02, 2009

Its fun to see how your mind goes from idea to idea as you sketch. Very cool. All nice sketches too!
Jeff Smith Jul 01, 2009

Thanks Nicolas!
Nick Imsand Jun 30, 2009

I love your style
Jeff Smith Jun 20, 2009

Thanks guys!
Jeff Smith Jun 20, 2009

Thanks Roshan!
Roshan Hakkim Jun 20, 2009

I agree with you!its a totatlyy different feel once one gets used to the normal blank sheets...
Roshan Hakkim Jun 20, 2009

awesome...one more contribution of yours going into my reference I shud say..
Jeff Smith Jun 19, 2009

Hector and Arnau, thanks guys!
Hector Silva Jun 19, 2009

jeff this is just amazing!
Arnau Sanjuan Roman May 14, 2009

perfect surface understanding!!! great
Jeff Smith May 14, 2009

Thanks Anthony!
Anthony Cooper May 13, 2009

nice impressive work for just sketches
FRed PRIVAT de GARILHE Mar 24, 2009

jeff, your sketches look better with this brown font... great idea ;-) FRed
Elie Man Jan 16, 2009

Jeff, Thinking this could also be a mouse for kids. Are you seeing that at all? -Elie
Jeff Smith Jan 12, 2009

Thanks Dan!
Dan Bishop Jan 12, 2009

Fantastic concept!
Don Vierstra Jan 09, 2009

Jeff, Always interesting to follow your thought process. I like that little sports car on the right.
Jeff Smith Dec 31, 2008

Thanks Rafael!
Rafael Cerrada Dec 31, 2008

awesome...amazing what you can do with any piece of paper and a simple pencil.
Jeff Smith Oct 27, 2008

Thanks Ivan....that is my style..... Have done other styles for work...but most of the sketches here are for me.
ivan HUBER Oct 27, 2008

Nice! Great sketching. Maybe you could explore other design languages -- that aquatic-eliptical-organic aesthetic runs STRONG throughout your work. I'd love to see how you break that mold! Keep it up!
Jeff Smith Aug 29, 2008

Thanks Raphael, if you can pick out my style, that is good!
Raphael Lopez Aug 29, 2008

Wow Jeff, I just joined this group and I was able to tell " wow this look's like Jeff's" just from the thumbnail
Jeff Smith Aug 04, 2008

Thanks Don.
Don Vierstra Aug 04, 2008

Great work Jeff! I can see the common theme in all these images. Great ideas and high level of creativity.
Jeff Smith Jul 29, 2008

Right on David. It is the key, plus using construction paper makes you do everything on one page. No underlay or layer.
J. David Weiss Jul 29, 2008

Nice, Jeff. Have not done enough of this lately.
Jeff Smith Jul 11, 2008

Thanks Don!
Don Vierstra Jul 10, 2008

Very cool Jeff! More retro-inspired sketches. Very creative work!
Jeff Smith Mar 26, 2008

Thanks Dan. I should post more of these Nixon targeted concepts.
Dan Bishop Mar 26, 2008

Cool concepts on the forms, very innovative.
Jeff Smith Jan 03, 2008

Thanks Gary!
Gary Major Jan 03, 2008

Gorgeous shape and great economy of line Jeff.
Jeff Smith Dec 23, 2007

Thanks Gary!
Gary Major Dec 23, 2007

A perfect illustration of "how to convey a form in one sketch". Only a really gifted designer can describe complex forms so minimally - I love this guys work!
Mike Turner Dec 01, 2007

I've got a 3.5 year old . .and rest assured, it's IMPOSSIBLE to design kid-proof stuff! Sure as eggs is eggs, they'll find some godawful way of making even the most innocuous and seemingly straightforward household objects totally destructive and lethal! - I've just caught mine pushing chocolate cake into the speaker holes of our flatscreen TV!!!!! Kids, eh? F@*king DEMONS, more like!!
Jeff Smith Nov 29, 2007

Thanks Don, Having a 3 year old makes one think about these. I am on a mission to design one that does not leak. They all do!
Don Vierstra Nov 29, 2007

Like the sketches. Looks like you thought a lot about the ergonomics. The top 2nd from the left would work well. Children need something easy to grip...but may be hard to clean.
Michael DiTullo Oct 30, 2007

nice exploration page.

Michael DiTullo Oct 30, 2007

nice exploration page.
Don Vierstra Nov 29, 2007

Like the sketches. Looks like you thought a lot about the ergonomics. The top 2nd from the left would work well. Children need something easy to grip...but may be hard to clean.
Jeff Smith Nov 29, 2007

Thanks Don, Having a 3 year old makes one think about these. I am on a mission to design one that does not leak. They all do!
Mike Turner Dec 01, 2007

I've got a 3.5 year old . .and rest assured, it's IMPOSSIBLE to design kid-proof stuff! Sure as eggs is eggs, they'll find some godawful way of making even the most innocuous and seemingly straightforward household objects totally destructive and lethal! - I've just caught mine pushing chocolate cake into the speaker holes of our flatscreen TV!!!!! Kids, eh? F@*king DEMONS, more like!!
Gary Major Dec 23, 2007

A perfect illustration of "how to convey a form in one sketch". Only a really gifted designer can describe complex forms so minimally - I love this guys work!
Jeff Smith Dec 23, 2007

Thanks Gary!
Gary Major Jan 03, 2008

Gorgeous shape and great economy of line Jeff.
Jeff Smith Jan 03, 2008

Thanks Gary!
Dan Bishop Mar 26, 2008

Cool concepts on the forms, very innovative.
Jeff Smith Mar 26, 2008

Thanks Dan. I should post more of these Nixon targeted concepts.
Don Vierstra Jul 10, 2008

Very cool Jeff! More retro-inspired sketches. Very creative work!
Jeff Smith Jul 11, 2008

Thanks Don!
J. David Weiss Jul 29, 2008

Nice, Jeff. Have not done enough of this lately.
Jeff Smith Jul 29, 2008

Right on David. It is the key, plus using construction paper makes you do everything on one page. No underlay or layer.
Don Vierstra Aug 04, 2008

Great work Jeff! I can see the common theme in all these images. Great ideas and high level of creativity.
Jeff Smith Aug 04, 2008

Thanks Don.
Raphael Lopez Aug 29, 2008

Wow Jeff, I just joined this group and I was able to tell " wow this look's like Jeff's" just from the thumbnail
Jeff Smith Aug 29, 2008

Thanks Raphael, if you can pick out my style, that is good!
ivan HUBER Oct 27, 2008

Nice! Great sketching. Maybe you could explore other design languages -- that aquatic-eliptical-organic aesthetic runs STRONG throughout your work. I'd love to see how you break that mold! Keep it up!
Jeff Smith Oct 27, 2008

Thanks Ivan....that is my style..... Have done other styles for work...but most of the sketches here are for me.
Rafael Cerrada Dec 31, 2008

awesome...amazing what you can do with any piece of paper and a simple pencil.
Jeff Smith Dec 31, 2008

Thanks Rafael!
Don Vierstra Jan 09, 2009

Jeff, Always interesting to follow your thought process. I like that little sports car on the right.
Dan Bishop Jan 12, 2009

Fantastic concept!
Jeff Smith Jan 12, 2009

Thanks Dan!
Elie Man Jan 16, 2009

Jeff, Thinking this could also be a mouse for kids. Are you seeing that at all? -Elie
FRed PRIVAT de GARILHE Mar 24, 2009

jeff, your sketches look better with this brown font... great idea ;-) FRed
Anthony Cooper May 13, 2009

nice impressive work for just sketches
Jeff Smith May 14, 2009

Thanks Anthony!
Arnau Sanjuan Roman May 14, 2009

perfect surface understanding!!! great
Hector Silva Jun 19, 2009

jeff this is just amazing!
Jeff Smith Jun 19, 2009

Hector and Arnau, thanks guys!
Roshan Hakkim Jun 20, 2009

awesome...one more contribution of yours going into my reference I shud say..
Roshan Hakkim Jun 20, 2009

I agree with you!its a totatlyy different feel once one gets used to the normal blank sheets...
Jeff Smith Jun 20, 2009

Thanks Roshan!
Jeff Smith Jun 20, 2009

Thanks guys!
Nick Imsand Jun 30, 2009

I love your style
Jeff Smith Jul 01, 2009

Thanks Nicolas!
Robert Liddell Jul 02, 2009

Its fun to see how your mind goes from idea to idea as you sketch. Very cool. All nice sketches too!
Jeff Smith Jul 02, 2009

Thanks Robert! That is one of the reasons I am a fan of sketching like this on the same page. Too many people cut and paste what they like onto a "summary" page. Seeing the evolution on paper (as you pointed out) is very important.
Roshan Hakkim Aug 22, 2009

hot n clean sketches...I have a classmate who is a big fan of your work...he would be thrilled to see this...cheers
Jeff Smith Aug 22, 2009

Thanks Roshan! Tell him to post a comment (if he hasn't).
Jonathan Osborne IDSA Aug 22, 2009

Great Jeff always great work
Dan Bolinski Aug 25, 2009

loving the green canson paper!
Jeff Smith Aug 25, 2009

Thanks Jonathan and Dan!
Dan Bishop Aug 25, 2009

Yeah, Canson FTW!!!
Conny S Sep 20, 2009

Hope, you know them from fun factory? But why the hell is a man like you developing vibrators? :-) really funny!
Jeff Smith Sep 20, 2009

What, I can't sketch fun shapes for a fun product? :()
Conny S Sep 20, 2009

sure, u can! Just do it - it's okay, i like it! (i was just kiddin') sorry, mate ... ;-)
Jeff Smith Sep 20, 2009

No worries, I go the joke!
abhishek bhartiya Oct 27, 2009

man Jeff..ur sketches are very much alive man..they just talk for themselves..no explanation required.. LIKELY'd :)
Jeff Smith Oct 27, 2009

Thanks! I try to put life in there!
Adam Borton Dec 16, 2009

lovely. did u sketch these out in pencil first?
Adam Borton Dec 16, 2009

where are the mistakes?!! i need to get practicing..
Jeff Smith Dec 16, 2009

Adam, thanks for the comment. To your question, no these were not sketched out in pencil first. These are all done on one sheet of copy paper in pilot pen. No copy and paste in PS. Draw in pen, it makes you better and force yourself to complete full origional pages like this. It is great training.
Jeff Smith Dec 16, 2009

Thanks Adam! Draw a page everyday! Draw with pen and complete pages!
Melzario Davis Dec 30, 2009

i thought my line work was good. urs is just plain ridiculous (in a good way) lol
Jeff Smith Dec 30, 2009

Thanks man! Lots of practice!
Joe MacCarthy Jan 24, 2010

Softy Blast...nice.
Jeff Smith Jan 24, 2010

Thanks Joe!
Diego Guevara Jan 24, 2010

amazing...!!!
Jeff Smith Jan 25, 2010

Thanks Diego!
Joshua Probst Jan 28, 2010

I like the "cartridge" on #2.
Jeff Smith Jan 29, 2010

Thanks the Josh.
Ryan Mather Feb 06, 2010

I love the looseness of your linework. So fresh and relaxed!
Jeff Smith Feb 07, 2010

Thanks Ryan!
Robert Mir Feb 17, 2010

sick. we need u back at school jeff, brent cant hold down the fort ALL by himself
Jeff Smith Feb 17, 2010

Way out of my hands Robert.
Niklas Karlsson Mar 07, 2010

overall very pleasant sketchwork on all of these sketchpages, fun to watch
Konstantinos Tsiopanos Mar 21, 2010

Amazing work as usual! I have a new found respect for the Canson sketches you do. They are all so clean. You also have an amazing ability for nailing the layout of your sketches right off the bat, especially on your ideation pages--ridiculous. Love the jet on the top right-- and great view of the plane on the bottom left.
Jeff Smith Mar 21, 2010

Dino, does that mean you tried Canson or construction paper over the weekend? The clue (to full layout) is draw one, two ot three main images, then fill in a few concepts that "take up" the left over negative space. You would be surprised what you come up with when you are "just filling in space". Thanks.
Konstantinos Tsiopanos Mar 21, 2010

Yeah I tried it, and crashed and burned. haha. I just need to practice. Thanks for the clue!
Jeff Smith Mar 21, 2010

Right on!
Brandegee Pierce Apr 14, 2010

Roberts right, we are down to one industrial design teacher. I am glad I got to learn what did in time.
Jeff Smith Apr 14, 2010

Brandegee, how is it going at the ai? Heard a little here and there. Not much news that I get now.
Brandegee Pierce Apr 21, 2010

Our new chair is an Interior Design teacher. I don't foresee good things in the future if things don't change soon. The new professor from Philadelphia seems very good and will hopefully help the program. Time will tell.
Jeff Smith Apr 21, 2010

I thought it was Pittsburg?
Robert Mir May 25, 2010

Must have been one hell of a boring meeting jeff! Nonetheless once again you produce veryy clean sketches
Jeff Smith May 25, 2010

Thanks Rob.
Jeff Smith Sep 18, 2010

Thanks gino. This was all on a piece of canson paper.
Jonathan Niemuth Dec 22, 2010

I like the vehicle in the bottom left
Jeff Smith Dec 22, 2010

Thanks Jonathan.
Emil Flecha Feb 21, 2011

Superb and strong styling!
Jeff Smith Feb 21, 2011

Thanks Emil!
Prad Savania Mar 16, 2011

Cool concept sketches Jeff..........great job Come & see my illustrations also? They're more Footwear design related...
Carl Andersen Apr 01, 2011

Jeff, your work is such great inspiration!
Jeff Smith Apr 01, 2011

Thanks Carl!
Jeff Smith Dec 20, 2011

Thanks Anthony!
Jeff Smith Dec 20, 2011

Thanks Anthony!
Victor Cheung May 19, 2012

Great sketches Jeff ! both for the creativity and execution, it's very inspiring !
Jeff Smith May 19, 2012

Thanks Victor!