Tahnee Pantig

What do a cookie, rice & a top knot have in common?

ME (Tahnee)! AND PLUSH TOYS!

Idea 1: Peak Frean Cookies

These are cookies I used to have as a kid. I think they’re an English/Canadian thing. They have a cream center and a fruit jelly in the middle which was so sweet! I imagine the plush toy twisting apart to reveal the center and also lighting up in the center of the fruit jelly just like sugar crystals.

Idea 2: Grains of Rice

This relates to my family’s history as rice farmers in the Philippines. If you look closely at a grain of rice, the ends are translucent and the center is opaque. I’d love to see if I can create this quality in a plush toy. Also a bushel of rice would be nice (a rhyme).

Idea 3: A Top Knot

I’m known for my top knot that I wear a lot and sometimes I get made fun of because of it. This top knot is one that anyone can wear (I imagine some sort of velcro attachment to make it a headpiece). Also, the top knot would light up!

CIRC-06 Exercise “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”

Here’s my CIRC-06 exercise! I was having trouble with fine tuning some of the notes and the timing so I’m hoping to go to Boris on Wednesday for help on this. I’m hoping that my next attempt at CIRC-06 will play “Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It” because that would be awesome.

Arduino Party Light Edition (feat. T-Pain)

6:30 am party lights! This was fun 🙂 Yes T-Pain is playing in the background, don’t hate.

Tim & The Truck Teardown

This is Tim & his Truck. He deliveries packages and makes friends along the way. He also romanticizes what it’s like to be a truck driver, brainwashing little kids with adorable rhymes & melodies until they beg their parents to enter his profession.

The teardown was done using one tool: a Philips screwdriver (I couldn’t identify what size it was but it’s pretty small).

It was rather easy to take apart and had a very simple construction. All the parts were made of plastic and were kept together by metal screws. I imagine that the parts were made by injection molding.

I had some trouble identifying the different chips and what they did. I tried to look them up but didn’t have much luck with my searches (someone help?). I can tell you that they operate by switch (by pushing a button) and when turned on, make a sound and also light up.

The 2 design elements that interested me were the choice to give the toy a boy dominant gender and the decision to fuse the larger chip board to the base of the toy which holds the wheels and batteries. I think the designer decided to give the toy a boy gender to appeal to wider societal beliefs of who a truck driver is and what the role represents (gender roles is a bit of a black hole so I won’t get too far into it here, but happy to talk more if you like!). For the decision to fuse the larger chip board to the base of the toy, I think this may have to do with safety and also providing a stable base for the “brain” of the toy.

Tahnee Pantig

Hello!

Originally from Toronto, Canada, I’ve been living and working in a number of different cities for the past few years. In addition to that I’m also a yoga teacher and dancer, so I’m a mover in more ways than one (get it? Too abstract?) My travels from city to city as well as my experiences in dance and yoga inform a lot of my work. I’m interested in using design as a medium to create art. I’m terribly excited about being in PoD and am looking forward to pushing my personal limitations and seeing the work that will be produced.