Intertidal Deployment Objects collaborate with the marine environment to generate dynamic ceramic surfaces. The designers were excited to work with barnacles, as they are capable of creating uniquely complex and beautiful shells. The concept was to design a modular system of interchangeable ceramic forms that promote barnacle growth. Some sections were submerged into the ocean to grow marine life. Months later, after the barnacles had grown, these components were removed from the ocean and reassembled into completed pieces.

Trygve Faste has worked as a product designer at IDEO, Fakespace, and WET Design.  He has designed for clients such as Pepsi, John Deere, SAS, Baxter Health Care, Ely Lilly Pharmaceuticals, Kraft Foods, Sega, MGM, and Hasbro/Tiger Electronics. His work is in the permanent collections of the Cranbrook Museum of Art, Compuware and Chrysler. Trygve Faste is currently an Associate Professor of Product Design at the University of Oregon. He has taught classes at California State University Long Beach, Otis College of Art, Whitman College, and Cranbrook Academy of Art among others.

Something Like This Design is an experimental creative studio started by Trygve Faste and Jessica Swanson. Faste and Swanson work in the Pacific Northwest of the United States where their work engages the local environment. Their goal is to create thoughtful functional designs that stem from their interest in the nexus of design and studio art.