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PORTFOLIO UniSA

The following projects were part of the course work within the

Product Innovation (Industrial Design) Bachelor of Design course

at the University of South Australia.

GOLDEN RECORD

2012, Study Period 5,

Product Design Studio 4,GRAPP 2033.


Working Model / 1st Prototype.

Cast Concrete & CNC Machined “Di-Bond”

 

Brief:

Design a working Record Player using only 2 materials with 1 process each.

Create using production methods suitable for production of 100 units.

 

DUO Rotary/Drill

2014, Study Period 5,

Product Design Studio 6,GRAP 3011.


Final Studio, Design for manufacture

Protoype of a drill/driver for a domestic environment.

 

Brief:

Design a Drill/Driver tool for the home. With the home office in mind.

Taking into consideration:
  Legal requirements for patents and standards,
  Design for Usability,
  Competetive benchmarking
  Design for Manufacture & Environment,
  Visual Brand Language,
  Innovation.

 

Full presentation webpage here...
 

Japanese Inspired Tall-Lamp

2013, Study Period 2

Ergonomic + Cultural Factors in Furniture Design, ARCH 2034

 

Brief:

Design a free-standing floor lamp, based on elements of Japanese culture, using a modern LED light source.

 

Method:

Constructed from Square cut Tasmanian Oak,

Oak dowelling

& hand textured & laquered paper diffuser

Adelaide Velo-City Bike Share

2014, Study Period 2

Product Design Studio 5 (Usability), GRAP 3010

 

Displayed at the Adelaide Convention Centre

as part of the 2014 "Velo-City" Conference

 

Brief:

Expand upon the Adelaide bike-share system by creating your own system that will also interact with a product & an App suitable for smart phones.

 

Approach:

Upgrades to the Share-bikes to include a "Smart Hub" and universal smart phone "Cradle" to interact with the rider and the overall system through education, hire and intervention in conjunction with the app and the E-Velo system.

Flat-Pack Chair

2013, Study Period 2

Ergonomic + Cultural Factors in Furniture Design, ARCH 2034

 

Brief:

Design a Flat-Packed Chair based on elements of Japanese culture,

using a nominated size of material.

 

Method:

CNC Routered MDF

Oak dowelling

Vinyl Decals
Construction was achieved without fixings or adhesives.

Glucagon Injector

2014, Study Period 2

Product Design Studio 5 (Usability), GRAP 3010

 

Introduction:

The basis of this project is a Glucagon Injector: a medical device (“auto-injector”) used by people with hypoglycaemia.

 

Brief:

Develop design for usability skills and knowledge: implement Design For Usability principles such as mappings, affordances and visibilities.

User instructions: create instructions that will enable the user to use the product correctly & conduct useability trials as a way of evaluating the success of a design.

Solidworks Assignments

3D Drafting Assignments using SolidWorks

GRAP 2029 (2013)
Design Communication 3

 

Projects included:
1. Reverse engineering the model from an
    off the shelf soap dispenser.
2. Reverse engineered model of Microsoft
    USB Mouse.
3. Custom mouse design, based on
    pop-culture reference for branding/styling.

All of the above assignments required a blog to document the progression and troubleshooting of the drafting process.

More Furniture

Furniture Electives

 

During the degree I took part in 2 furniture electives:

     ARCH 2035              Furniture Design for Manufacture

     ARCH 2034              Ergonomic and Cultural Factors in Furniture Design

 

Furniture also often emerged in other areas of the "Bachelor of Design" program.

This is a product range we can easily model, self-test and fabricate.

 

These are a few of the examples

Tall Echo

Tall Echo

Another Chair from the Furniture Elective. This was built with Manufacture in mind and combines standard cut pine with aluminium for the dowel rods with and Echo Panel cushion

Experimental Mug

Experimental Mug

This was made as part of the Product Aesthetics and Values course. My mug was made from Cast Concrete with a Laser cut Marine Ply base

Cardboard Chair (1st year studio)

Cardboard Chair (1st year studio)

The brief asked for everyone to use the same size sheet of card and use as much of it as possible. Other rules were: -Hand cut -NO Tape, No Glue -Must hold average adult's weight

repurposed chair-A

repurposed chair-A

The brief required that we used no new elements and that the new product had a different function to its original form.

repurposed chair-B

repurposed chair-B

The chair was constructed using a couple of old AB-Rockers, timber decking & two broom-handles. The chair can be used as a reclined reading chair or flip it around for a low rocking chair.

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