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About Me

Designer. Chess player.

wine marketer, global traveler, slow food enthusiast. Father, lover, writer, soon to be author.

I'm passionate about design as a means of creating positive choices.

If the bags we design are attractive than it's an easier choice for a consumer to use/buy and thus we've saved the vinyl from the landfill, we've employed someone to craft the bag, and we've created a product that is fundamentally useful.

Location:
United States, Raleigh, NC
Current role:
Designer/Owner
Gender:
Male
Areas of expertise:
Idea creation and brainstorming
Languages:
Spanish
My website links:
MURI Bags, Print + Play Chess, Inventor's Weekend
Universities:
Appalachian State University
TED conferences attended:
TEDActive 2011
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I'm passionate about

I'm passionate about getting meaningful things done.

An idea worth spreading

Deep thinking about triple net systems. Design forms that evolve in their use. For example a baby stroller that becomes a shopping cart, that becomes a push trike and back to a baby stroller during a young families development.

Or a bag made from billboards by an at home worker, cutting down on commuting, increase child rearing access, teaching entrepreneurship, craft, and life cycle product ecology.

If the bags we design are attractive than it's an easier choice for a consumer to use/buy and thus we've saved the vinyl from the landfill, we've employed someone to craft the bag, and we've created a product that is fundamentally useful. A true triple net. Products, ideas should be packed in a way that communicate not just one value, but multiple values.

Talk to me about

kids + science, billboards to bags, venture capital, medical device, social entrepreneurism

People don't know that I'm good at

chess, food, leveraging networks

My TED Story

How i Harnessed the Wind, by William Kwamkabe changed my perspective at the power of determination to affect real tangible issues.

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  • A comment on Conversation: create a team within our TED community working on ideas that can became educational games.

    Mar 13 2011: i have a game. it's simple and already out in the hive mind of global communities. chess. the challenge is access to chess boards and pieces. plastic ones are polluting, and often expensive. i've designed an 8 x 11 (think sheet of stiff paperstock cardboard at the back of a legal pad) the vector file is sent to any desktop printer in the world. the kids simply print out the 8x11 board with the 10 rules and how to on the back and cut out the pieces. the pieces have little cut out cross stands like paper dolls do. instant affordable chess.

    a fancier version is thin wood stock that get lasered. it's massed produced, light and can be shipped anywhere in the world for a few pennies. i've approached oliver hess TED Fellow and Principal of Didier Hess. he thought it was a fantastic idea and has some of his fabricators in LA looking at how to create it.

    I'm also spoke with John Werman of citizenschools to drop these templates into his school system.

    chess teaches three dimensional thinking, critical thinking skills, sportsmenship, math, etc.

    the media campaign along with it would be "Be a Queen" or "Be a King" The overall idea is called "Chesster" as in jester and chess.

    any thoughts?

    matt

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