PORTFOLIO.2024
Michael South is a multi-disciplinary designer working across architecture, furniture and textiles. After graduating from the Pratt School of Architecture, he founded Studio Ooni, a practice focused on custom furniture design and fabrication.
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Selected Professional Work
GLOW + FLOW - HAWTHORNE, CA
StudioOoni - Custom Furniture/Millwork
FLOATING SHELVING UNIT
GREENPOINT HEADBOARD
POLK RECORD CABINET
RISON CABINETS
Ooni LAMP V.1
Ooni LAMP V.2
SANCTUARY HEALTH - PATCHOGUE, NY
MATERIAL LIBRARY - EDG
OBSCURE COFFEE ROASTERS
Selected Undergraduate Work - Pratt Institute
NASA X-HAB --------4th Year
THESIS ------------5th Year
CLAY 3D PRINTING --5th Year
Unit Studio - Fashion
CANOPY JACKET
U-SHORTS
HOODED ANORAK
FOUR POCKET BUTTON-UP
FRENCH TERRY WORK JACKET
GUNNER SMOCK
michaelsouth33@gmail.com
@michaelsouth14
@studio.ooni
@unit.nyc
LinkedIn
01 GLOW+FLOW - HAWTHORNE, CA
While working at Chadha Ranch, I completed all schematic design for this Glow+Flow retail location in Hawthorne, California.
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764—05/24
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02 SANCTUARY HEALTH - PATCHOGUE, NY
Studio Ooni completed all phases of design and fabrication for this health center in Patchogue, Long Island.
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764—08/25
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03 MATERIAL LIBRARY - EDG NYC
Studio Ooni completed all phases of fabrication and installation for this EDG’s Material Library
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764—08/25
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04 OBSCURE COFFEE ROASTERS
Studio Ooni completed all phases of design and fabrication for this health center in Patchogue, Long Island.
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764—08/25
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05 NASA X-HAB MOON TO MARS
In this year-long, granted studio by NASA, 11 students and I were tasked with designing and developing a long-term habitat on Earth’s Moon for astronauts to conduct research and experiments.
Read more764—08/20
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06 THESIS
This proposal argues that experiential consumerism was killed by the COVID-19 pandemic. It envisions a SoHo that offers a street level free of conventional shopping by bringing working artists into vacant ground-floor retail spaces.
Read more764—08/22
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07 POLK RECORD CABINET
A custom mixing station and record storage cabinet for a local Brooklyn DJ fabricated in Red Oak.
Read more764—01/24
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08 RISON CABINETS
Two large storage cabinets fabricated in Red Oak, stained in with a vanilla cream oil finish. Milled, solid oak spherical door pulls are the highlight of these cabinets.
Read more764—10/23
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09 Ooni LAMP V.1
Fabricated from basswood and paper, this lightweight lamp is perfectly cozy.
Read more764—09/24
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10 Ooni LAMP V.2
Fabricated from basswood and paper, this lightweight lamp is perfectly cozy.
Same as version 1, this version utilizes coloured tissue paper to meet the client’s request for coloured light.
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764—09/24
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11 GREENPOINT HEADBOARD
This large headboard doubles as a wall unit and radiator cover.
Fabricated in sapele mahogany, the unit features three small closed cabinets and underlit book shelves above the radiator.
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764—09/24
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12 Floating Shelving Unit
100% grey and brown linen short sleeve button-up.
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764—08/24
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13 CANOPY JACKET
Lightweight zippered jacket made from deadstock recycled military parachute.
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764—07/24
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14 U-SHORTS
Light shorts constructed with a linen body and structural nylon twill waistband.
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764—07/24
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15 HOODED ANORAK
Lightweight two-button anorak made from cotton plaid cotton shirt and blue linen.
Read more764—08/24
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16 FOUR POCKET BUTTON-UP
Garment-dyed purple, front cutout pockets spatter the front of this button-up.
Read more764—07/24
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17 FRENCH TERRY WORK JACKET
Made from scrap french terry lined with scrap linen and garment dyed ‘black’.
Read more764—03/24
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18 DENIM GUNNER SMOCK
Constructed from denim scraps scabbed back together to make full panels, this is modeled after a WW2 Navy Gunner’s Smock.
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764—12/23
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