KCAI Undergraduate Thesis

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January 2, 2018/Author: ryanfletcherdesign
“Tapas Micros” is a set of porcelain, restaurant service ware designed to accommodate a Micro Menu or Tasting Menu. The micro menu is a trend in restaurants; guests are served several (sometimes 10 or more) courses of highly conceptual and sculptural food. The small bites, or “tastings” as they...

Julian KC

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January 2, 2018/Author: ryanfletcherdesign
“Tapas Micros” is a set of porcelain, restaurant service ware designed to accommodate a Micro Menu. The micro menu is a trend in restaurants; guests are served several (sometimes 10 or more) courses of highly conceptual and sculptural food. The small bites, or “tastings” as they are sometimes called,...

Pierogi Variations

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January 1, 2018/Author: ryanfletcherdesign
Pierogi Variations were created out of a desire to explore new processes in mold making. Typically slip-casting molds are created using a model, or prototype, which the mold is then made from. This process, does not use a model; instead found objects are playfully arranged in a mound, plastic...

Gold Tea Set Collab

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December 28, 2017/Author: ryanfletcherdesign
Gold Tea Set Collab Project was designed to influence the work through collaborative input. “Gold Flavored Tea Set” was created in 2009 in my studio in Kansas City and shipped to a photographer in Jacksonville, FL to become an element in a photo shoot taking place there. The photos...

Early Work

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December 28, 2017/Author: ryanfletcherdesign
The work shown here was made between 2007 & 2009 during my undergraduate studies in ceramics at the Kansas City Art Institute. The grouping of objects demonstrates an exploration into ceramic forming processes including: slip casting, hand building, and wheel throwing. Looking back, I notice my first conceptual ideas...

Personal Brand Projects

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December 28, 2017/Author: ryanfletcherdesign
Over the years I have used personal branding projects as a means of exploring the sense of self through icon and symbol. These are some examples of logos and print material created for studio projects and various entrepreneurial undertakings. For many of these I used the iconography of the...

Piccolo MPLS

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December 28, 2017/Author: ryanfletcherdesign
For this project a selection from the Tapas Micros set was selected for a 6 Course prefix menu created by Chef/Owner Doug Flicker of Piccolo Restaurant Minneapolis. Dinner event and guests coordinated by Northern Clay Center and Piccolo staff at the end of a 4 week invitational residency. Product:...

Late Night Pastry Dinner

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December 28, 2017/Author: ryanfletcherdesign
Late Night Pastry Dinner, coordinated by Chef/Owner Howard Hanna, was an after hours collaboration with three local pastry chefs. Tasha Goellner (Mullberry and Mott), Nick Wesemann (The American Restaurant), Carter Holton (Le Fou Frog) created a 9 course pastry dinner, 3 savory courses and 6 dessert courses for around...

Rieger Hotel with Howard Hanna

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December 27, 2017/Author: ryanfletcherdesign
Through collaboration and industrial production methods, I create dining experiences using  restaurants as alternative exhibition spaces. This is most evident in two projects titled “Tapas Micros” and “Paper Plates.” Both projects were created as collaborative experiments within the parameters of food service. Both were created with direct input from...