Entry level minimal
structure low speed aircraft designed as a low cost, easy to assemble sports and recreation
vehicle. This aircraft utilizes a parasail as its wing and is powered
by a 35hp twostroke engine.
Gyro
2000, USA:
Concept, design
and construction of Ikenga Autogyro's as kit assembled aircraft that are developed
for utility applications in Third World countries, and for sports recreationflying
in the US, Japan, and Europe.
Ikenga Motorcars, UK:
Concept, design and prototype development of experimental high
performance GT autos and micro sized inner city vehicles using gas
and electric power and specialty electronics.
Complex-D,
UK:
Acrylic products and furniture design. Highlighting a voice actuated
and electronically driven furniture concept for computer applications
that was featured in the Dr. Who television series.
Playtoy/Storage
Modules:
Grant
from the State of California to design playtoy modules and storage
units for preschools Mendocino county.
23
foot Catamaran: USA
The Ikenga houseboat prototype,
powered by a 50hp outboard motor, was designed and built in Mendocino, California
in the mid-70s. It featured a nine by twelve cabin and outdoor deck. Designed to be marketed as a kit assembled boat
using recycled matrials, the project was completed with the support of the Mendocino High School and Middle School directors.
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Naran
Hak, Korea:
The concept,
ideation, and design of this two person, side by side, Autogyro was commissioned by a Korean multinational for assembly in
Asia. To be powered by a Arrow or Hirth aircooled engine, the airraft featured a prerotator for jump takeoff. Naran Hak was targeted towards worldwide distribution and sales as a kit built aircraft.
Solarwind,
USA:
Living above the Earth, Solarwind is a proof-of-concept/design for
a minimal structure, Suzuki powered, semi-rigid dirigible as a flying-living environment. It was to be constructed in Mendocino, California. The aircraft featured a twelve-foot diameter living space . . . fondly refered to as a yogi nest.
Zip,
USA:
Concept
and development of a minimal structure, friction drive, hand portable
inner city vehicle. The
Scootboard project featured both petrol and electric vehicles.
Dwij
Veena, USA:
Design
and development of twenty-two and twenty-three stringed fretless
guitars that are inspired by the Sarode, an Afgani/northern Indian
instrument made popular in the west by maestro Ali Akbar Khan.
The Talisman
CD is my first recording of this instrument which you can hear on
this link: dwij-music
Manatee,
USA:
Manatee is a proof of concept minimal structure gas and electric trike for
short range and inner city commuting. New technology now make the compressed air motor and state-of-the-art 250mpg gas engines power sources. Presently seeking
start-up investment for prototype and
feasibility studies.
Scootboard,
USA:
Design and manufacturing of hand-portable gas and electric motorized
scooters for inner city commuting. Created as a transportation solution to
the 1980 NYC transit strike, and manufactured in Santa Fe, NM, Scootboard was featured in a 1984 issue of The New
Yorker magazine.
Children's
Furniture, USA:
Concept
and design of a series of specialty automobile-based furniture for
national distribution by a US manufacturing group. The
series featured styles/cars popular with both boys and girls.
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Photography and Graphics
New York - London - Milan
Photography
studios servicing clients in the United States and Europe including
Celanese, British Airways, Trivera, Austin Reed, Vogue, Elle, Women's
Own, Revlon, Westminister Bank ,ICI Fibers, Car & Driver, General
Electric, and Jaguar Automobile Group.
Paintings:
Inspirational Art
Water colors and pen and ink original art
and limited editions. A powerful and insightful world of visionary
art that opens the heart and mind to the mystical realms and other
dimensions.
Internationally:
Advertising, graphics, and illustration for a wide array of clients
including The New York Visitor and Convention Bureau, The Long Walk,
International Women's Day, Sumitomo Heavy Industries, and Ford Motor
Corp, UK. Commissions
includes graphic design and illustrations for books, magazines, poster
art, CD art, and concept ideation and development for film and digital
video projects.
Creative
Consultant:
Servicing businesses requiring renewed, and visually impactful corporate
image, logo design, ad campaigns, television spots, and PSA's.
Working with
a creative team that includes art, copy writing, and marketing specialists
assures success in the targeted market.
Website
Design:
Consulting, Ideation, and Development of websitesand online marketing.
Our staff will link you with a number of talented designers who have participated
in www.dwij.org and developed beautiful and impactful marketing tools.
Internet
Publication:
www.dwij.org—The
concept for this/our Internet magazine is an outgrowth of the two-day
Sarasota 2K millennium presentation in December of 1999.
The publication is my vision/intention to launch an educational networking website that can serve
people of all ages —in many cultures— with topics of importance on a wide variety of subjects.
The concept was launched in 2000 by Dvid Gittens and has been sustained over the years by volunteers and through donations by many in the community.
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Community
Projects
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"Only
Hearts:"
An art/peace project featuring drawings and
wisdom-words of over three thousand Sarasota, Florida students.
This project is being used by educators around the world and can
be downloaded into the classroom.
United
Nations:
Commission to design and build the General Assembly stage set for
the United Nations 50th anniversary celebration. Manhattan, NY
Sarasota
2K:
Concept,
design and production of two day community healing arts, visual
arts and performance arts festival which celebrated the millennium
from a view point of peace making, ritual and ceremony. Sarasota,
FL
Smithsonian/NASM:
Designer/ficilitator: Interactive creativity seminar for D.C. area
youngsters presented at the Garber Facility of the National Air and
Space Museum, Washington, DC
Interfaith Center:
Designing, scoring and production of the Gift of Spring Easter performance
presentation. Manhattan, NY
UNICEF
Grant:
Concept, design and construction of a solar heated community shower
system in a Mayan village on Lake Atitlan in Guatemala, CA
Selby
Botanical Gardens:
Designer, producer, of the Selby Garden's
Winter Solstice presentation feature at their Lights in Bloom Christmas
holiday celebration.
The
Giving Tree:
Designer and producer of a two day community arts, performance,
and healing arts festival. Albuquerque, NM
Government
Grant:
Design and implementation of a fund raising project for Mayan schools
in Mexico. Funded by the Government of Yucatan.
Institute
of Noetic Sciences:
Design, presentation and facilitator of a
Creativity Workshop for the Florida national conference.
Opening
Meditation and Presencing with Tibetan Bowls and the debut of Dwij
Veena; a 22-string fretless guitar design.
Zia
Wings:
Design of Autogyro flight training and flight safety seminars for
new and seasoned gyroplane pilots. Albuquerque and Espanola, NM
Smithsonian/Lemelson
Center: Designer and facilitator
of a hands on creativity enhancement workshop for middle school
teachers at the National Museum of American History. Washington,
DC
Drum
Song:
Research project: Drumming and rhythm for seniors and advanced Alzheimer's
patients. Sarasota, FL
Harvest
of Gratitude:
Design/production of a Multi-Cultural, autumn
equinox, community presentation for all ages at
the Players Theatre. Featuring northern Indian guitar master Debashish
Bhattacharya. Sarasota, FL.
Seamen's
Institute:
Creation, design and presentation of this
organizations holiday crafts and performance festival. Manhattan,
NY
World
Game Presentation:
Member of steering committee that introduced
and facilitated R. Buckminster Fuller's World Game to the Santa
Fe, NM community.
Sarasota March for Obama/Biden:
Designer and coordinator of promotionals and advertising, and steering committee member.
Santa
Fe New Mexico Children's Museum:
Concept, design
and construction of the Donors Mural for the Santa Fe, NM Children's
Museum which featured motorized, time phased, components.
Nassau Guardian
Newspaper:
Redesign of the Guardian newspaper supplement and the creation of
a feature article on playground development and its projected impact
on Bahamian school children. Nassau, Bahamas
The
Whale School:
Environmental playground design and construction for an alternative school. Funded
in part by Georgia Pacific Corporation. Albion, CA.
Images
& Voices of Hope:
Steering committe member and presenter of
this organizations first presentation in Sarasota, Florida.
The
I Am Center:
Design, production, and presentation of Talisman, an autumn equinox
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Awards
and Distinctions
Distinction: Ikenga MKlll
1969
- Ikenga
MK III GT motorcar featured on BBCs Tomorrow's
World television program.
1969 - Debut
of the Ikenga MK III GT, McLaren based, motorcar at the Italian
International Motor Show in Turin, Italy
1970 - Ikenga
MKIII - The featured automobile design at the Pico Troberg International
Motor Show in Stockholm, Sweden.
Grant - Artist in Residence:
1970 - Foundation Karolyi
Vence, France
Award:
Ikenga 530Z
1988 - Grand Champion Rotorcraft
trophy at the 1988 Albuquerque International Air Show in Albuquerque,
NM
1988
- Best New Design in Rotorcraft award at the 1988
- PRA International Rotorcraft Convention. Middletown, OH
1988
- Reserve Grand Champion Rotorcraft trophy at the
1988 EAA, Osh Kosh, International Air Convention. Osh Kosh, WI
Award:
Cygnus 21T
1989 - Grand Champion Rotorcraft, trophy at the Albuquerque International AirShow, New Mexico
Award:
Cygnus 21TX
1990 - Grand Champion Rotorcraft, trophy at the Albuquerque
International AirShow, New Mexico
Distinction:
Cygnus 21P1
Debut:
Sumitomo Heavy Industries commissioned the Ikenga, pusher, autogiro
for the Sky Sports Japan Airshow at Ikegawa, Japan. - 1989
Presentation:
Mitsiu. LTD.
Making Dreams Real: An experential presentation
and workshop presented for researchers at the Mitsui Advanced Technology
Center in Chiba, Japan.
Exhibit:
Ikenga MKlll
McLaren based,
170mph GT. Permanent Collection of Manx Automotive Museum in England.
Featured at the 1969 Turin International Motor Show and in 1970 at
the Swedish Motor Show in Stockholm.
Exhibit: Ikenga 530Z
Permanent Collection of the Smithsonian National Air and
Space Museum. Washington, DC. Winner of multiple awards that include the 1980 Reserve Grand Champion at the Osh Kosh International Air convention and the Best New Design in Rotary Wing Aircraft award at the PRA National Convention.
Exhibit:
Ikenga Cygnus 21P2
Exhibited at the G-WIZ Sciene and Tehnology Museum in Sarasota, Florida since 2004, Cygnus21P2 is one of two ships commissioned
by Sumitomo Heavy Industries of Japan.
Exhibit:Ikenga
EZ Bird
A recreational aircraft featured at the Santa Fe, Children's Museum,
Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Award:
D.O.G
Dynamic Oscillating Gizmo:
Codesigner and team member of Santa Fe, New
Mexico's first annual Kinetic Sculpture Race winner.
Exhibit:
Kinetic Donors Mural. Permanent
exhibit of the Santa Fe Children's Museum. Santa Fe, NM
Motion Picture:
Ikenga MKll
Featured in a
film produced and directed by Mike Margets and Malcolm Hart. Constructed in London,
1968.
Exhibit:
Scootboard
Hand portable transportation invented during the New York City transit
strike and featured in the New Yorker magazine, and the Black Inventors
Museum.
Distinction:
Recipient of the Cherokee Golden Eagle Feather for community service.
Sarasota, FL
Distinction:
Consultant to the Lemelson Center of Invention and Innovation at
the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Distinction:
State of Florida Supreme Court Certified Mediator.
Distinction:
Ordained Priest
The Order of Melchizedek
Distinction:
Recipient of the Aviation Pioneer plaque at the International Conference
on the Autogiro, Hofstra University, April, 2003. |
