Optic Visuals Studio

03/04/2026

Year: 2000 project at St. Louis Community College

03/04/2026

03/02/2026

I know for a fact that design, merchandising, and engineering are appealing to young students for the following reasons. Many are a type of farce, and the competition for corporate design departments and ad agency firms is overwhelming. The risk of investing in a very chosen profession is significant.

There are deadlines and contracts, but when you show up for work, no one is waiting for a shift change. The work is usually indoors and in a controlled climate. There is no public interference in your work, but you may have to work overtime to meet production deadlines.

There are no sales receipts, but you may take a phone message and balance a spreadsheet.

Ad jobs, Design, and Engineering jobs are not school settings where you work in social applications. Many creatives think they can get wasted on elixers and inhibitors like drugs and alcohol and be productive and proficient like creatives do in college.

Tools and 3D aspects are intriguing, but keeping up with software updates is both educational and expensive. The accomplishment factors are awesome. Yet the number of runaround arguments for who and where is blasphemous. There has to be luck in your journey and a realistic support network. I have as many years of schooling as a doctor.

01/29/2026

The human being itself is virtually indestructible. We have thumbs, unlike any other creature, which enable us to pick up objects. We have a skeletal, nervous, and circulatory system wrapped around an intelligent brain. What makes us stupid is the perception of awareness factors.

We like to be watched by others. Yet we have to eat food that is time-consuming to prepare. There are so many hours before it gets dark outside.

We can build environments that provide safety and security for ourselves and others. What makes us stupid is that we start doing things for accolades or trophies outside our normal realm of reason.

As humans, we can analyze our surroundings using mathematics. The concept of mathematics is a set of logical solutions. Perception of our seven working digits in our processing database or brain causes us to do things by trial and error, which can mess things up.

It is the self-awareness protocol that causes us consider the basic needs of humanity. Our feelings of ethics, or what we do for one another, must be channeled into better awareness.

Ideas arise from insight, a referendum, and a sense of self-worth and entitlement as a form of bravado, reconciliation, or accomplishment.

In conclusion, help one another. Quit looking and become content, and learn to reason. Forget about the runaround argument and learn to live again.

I have been told, and agree, that school is a place to make mistakes.

01/06/2026

An image created in the software program Rhino 3D in 2007. A start of building blocks with 3d software to create the platform for a hat/ cap stretcher device called Fitted Pro in 2008. The client said in his electronic sticky notes, “Nice Shape.”

01/06/2026

The tripod light was a project I completed in Studio Two at the University of Kansas's Industrial Design school in 1991.

Originally, I rendered the project with Berol Watercolor Professional Illustration Markers. This version is from a 2000 version of the SolidWorks software program. I used sketches to recreate the image I designed at 22 in a computer at 29 years of age.

I started learning computer 3d modeling at 24 years old, giving me 30 years of intellectual property on the subject. When I was 30 years old, around the turn of the millennium, 2000, 3D modeling was the go-to for parts and pieces.

Many designers still use sketching to create thumbnails. I feel confident enough to quickly generate a 3d model. My photorealistic rendering skills may not be high, but I still feel a mousetrap in the round, actually placing in a physical space with computer-generated models prior to printing is the coherent 2026 method.

The actual product found in retail in 2025 was a Lux Pro Rechargeable Tripod Light.

LUXPRO is not just another flashlight company. It’s a beacon of innovation fueled by its passionate team. Nestled in the heart of Utah, our surroundings inspire us to craft exceptional products. Located amidst the beauty of nature, it inspires us to embrace the outdoors and promote a lifestyle that encourages us to enjoy the wonder and awe that this planet has to offer. This is why we love what we do.

11/30/2025

2025 - Blender / Juicer Concept Prototype - Mark Feuring portfolio piece

12/13/2022

When looking at economic turns and the downfall of actual equity, I have to look back through history and ask myself about life before credit when people spent real money.

When the toilet wouldn't run, or the sink wouldn't stop dripping, my dad and grandpa would go to Bayless Hardware, Central Hardware, or Ace Hardware to find the exact only part uniquely packaged. That part would sell for $1.29, whereas nowadays, you buy the whole kit for $20 and have it installed for another "80 dollars from service work using a contractor."

I have worked in the pool industry on pumps, valves, and motors. In college, I took a Naval Ship Systems Engineering class about condensation, evaporation, and feed tanks. Changing a toilet's inner workings is challenging to get "no drips."

I worked in the package clamshell industry as a graphic designer for years. The business's incentive is to package and sell genuine replacement parts for tools we use in our homes, like toilets, faucets, and shower parts. Yet, with mass production and distribution, it seems easier for manufacturers to package the whole project part, not the details designed for disassembly.

For example, when an o-ring or nozzle, or k**b had a lousy fitting or screw or was leaking or dipping, people used to pay cash to replace that only part and stand over the project, like changing the automobile oil filter. As if the fix-it project was like a moon launch to outer space.

The photos with the peg board are current photos, whereas the blister card and clams of small parts are packages at least 30 years old.

Wow, after research the interchangeable parts in packages are still made nearly thirty years later!

01/26/2022

When I attended, Victor Papanek was a renowned professor at the University of Kansas. He has a Wikipedia page. He wrote books, and one titled "Design for the Real World" explained his life philosophy. He was in the Peace Corps during the 1930s, and the projects he assigned were determinately function-oriented. His office was on the top floor of the KU Architecture Building.

In his class, I worked on an exercise machine for older adults and people in rehab who need to sit in a chair and complete simple arm movements. I have attached a picture in this FB post, and it is the gray unit. With simple twisting, rotating arm movements, therapists could have a device to motivate users to gain arm strength.

He talked about business in many different one side - two side phrases to accompany generalism. "Do one project, and give one away" to build clients. He would say. "Get your degree and go home and go down the street and take the first job you can get." I realized this is the early 1900 language of generalism. After college, I was leaning heavily on my backup plans back home in St Louis, where I grew up. For a job in more significant metropolitan areas, it didn't happen. And by far, I am happy with the route I took as my grandfather talked the same "status quo and referendum."

Anyway, I have a BFA with an emphasis in Industrial Design from KU. Stylizing is my forte and passion. I found this old picture and design of a grey and red exercise machine build and am comparing it to a unit for sale on the internet painted fluorescent green and black and white. So I can say with my information age service-oriented spin, Play the bravado and nuance of compliancy for the referendum."

I tried to sell Victor a home water purifier as I worked for a water purification company in Kansas. He wouldn't budge, and I think he hated the phone more than he hated answering it. So finally, he designed a beer can bumper surrounded by a wooden box. I built this painted grey device with PVC pipe commonly used for plumbing in 1994.