VAGRANT ART - DESIGN

From 2001-2004 I completed a Bachelor of Design (Industrial Design) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) . Over the four years of this Industrial Design course I designed several different products attaining to different Design briefs. Some entered in competitions others using different design principles, concepts and systems to create them.

When not creating actual particular designs there was alot of product renderings made to better these skills.

To create this work we used products such as the Adobe Suite, Solidworks and Vellum creating a solid base that I have utilised and built on to become an expert in these programs.

Please take a look at the work below by clicking on the links and thumbs to view the associated design, product and description.

Backpacker Buddy

Tamper Proof Bottle Cap

chess Board and Pieces

Backpacker Buddy

Designed for a Nuance competition, the Backpacker Buddy is a wireless communication device that is bought at airports and used by backpackers. This device enables you to be a local in any country. Maps, language translation, local information etc is all downloaded as you step off the plane enabling a safe and easy trip where ever you go. Communication to other backpackers is done wirelessly through message selection and when other Backpacker Buddy's are in your local area you are notified to enable peer to peer chatting.

tamper proof bottle cap

This product was an exercise in redesgning a tamper proof bottle cap to enable it to be visually easier to see when a bottle had been opened. The design of this cap was created so that to open the bottle you needed to click in a series of tabs in order for it to open. From a distance you could easily see which bottles had been opened or were still sealed.

chess board and pieces

Solidworks being the program of choice for 3D rendering at the University of Technology Sydney's Industrial Design course; we had to learn to use it extremely well. Therefore we had several assignments one being creating a themed chess board and pieces.

the lucid - lucid dreaming device

This product was developed or designed for a Sunbeam competition/ assignment. The assignment was to re-design or design a small household electronic device eg. shaver, electric tooothbrush, alarm clock. Although developing several different designs like this I had recently got in to Lucid dreaming and decided to re-design a lucid dreaming device I had seen called the Nova Dreamer. Working much like this device but being more comfortable, having night vision and allowing for music to be listened to as you slipped into unconsciousness; i thought it was a winner! Alas it was not the case:)

the mc - music composer and reader

IBeing a lover of Science Fiction when a future technology assigment came my way this was a dream come true. The device here is based on the future technology of electronic paper. Creating a music stand, composer, creator and player all in one sheet of paper. The device allows the musician to download sheet music to it and play the music through automatic scrolling by use of metronome control that highlights what note you should be playing. The device is also able to playback the music electronically, be edited through use of a stylus and created new the same way.

Woolongong park shelter

This was a group assignment to create new park shelters for an area in Wollongong that was attracting the wrong type of crowd to the park. Meaning good people who wanted to use the park were too scared to use it. Our design was to create a feature and community builidng shelter in the park. The design is a 30m diameter disc flipped up buy about thirty degrees allowing for a shelter on the under side and a auditorium on the upper. Creating a place where community events can be held and people would come to see it for the mere spectacle creating tourism in the area.

park

BAthroom scales

This was a quick project in product rendering in Adobe Photoshop.

Shampoo Bottles

These designs were for a project on designing for different markets. The two markets were children and the international market of Japan. The child bottles were designed to appeal to parents and children alike as they look a bit like people or super heroes but would be cheap to manufacture and help develop imagination. The japanese bottles definately look like people and therefore appeal to the cute and quirky nature of the Asian market.

CaFE STOOL

My favourite image i created and one of my favourite designs is below. A cafe stool that had to be stackable, durable, not gather water if left outside and if possible be multi-purpose. This stool covers all three; designed to stack using the middle spear and hole to hold solid, this also stops the gathering of water and enables the holding up of a umbrella if needed.

Camp torch

I love camping and this torch was created to enable the user to still do everything they needed to do when using a torch but keeping their hands free. This design was also printed out in a 3D printing machine. Which meant the Solidworks development had to be spot on.

the traNSLACare

My final year project is the Transla- care the care translator. Based on the technology of the Phraselator used by the US Army in Iraq but developed for hospital use the Transla- care fixes the problem of communicating with non-english speaking patients in hospitals the world over. This was developed after a 6 month research dissertation on the communication with non- english speaking patients in hospitals.