LIAM SHOLICAR DESIGN PORTFOLIO
Hello... I’m Liam Sholicar A third year Design for Industry student at Northumbria University
About me
I am a friendly and outgoing 21 year old Industrial Design student from Cambridge, currently in the third year of a four year degree at Northumbria University. During 2015, I completed a six month student placement with Bosch in Stowmarket. I am currently looking for a three to six month placement, starting at the end of March 2016. I am open to consider any challenging role where I can progress my career whilst having a positive impact on peoples’ lives through design.
Education
Degree BA (Hons) Design for Industry - Northumbria University, Newcastle (2013 - 2017) A-Levels Maths (B), Business (B), Physics (C), Product Design (C)
Experience
Bosch Lawn and Garden (March 2015 - September 2015) I spent six months working here for my year two placement as an engineering intern. This placement is covered in more detail on the next page. Cambridge Industrial Design (September 2013) I spent one week working here before I began university to gain experience in a consultancy. I learnt a lot during this week about how different ‘the real world’ is to work completed at GCSE or A levels.
Technical skills My education and work experience has greatly increased my skills in sketching, rendering, modelling, prototyping, CAD design, creative thinking and team work. Through my industrial placement I also feel I have a good appreciation of design for manufacture. I am confident in using SolidWorks, KeyShot, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Windows and Mac OS.
During the summer of 2015 I worked as an intern in the professional power tools division of Bosch in Stowmarket.
I was employed at the Bosch Stowmarket plant. This is a factory site with full inhouse manufacturing facilities. I was a member of a small design department working on next-generation battery powered professional garden tools. In addition to general training, I gained direct hands-on exposure to the manufacture and test of the Bosch “blue industries” products.
The feedback I received throughout my time at Bosch was incredibly positive. The Lead engineer (EPV) for the blower project is Robert Groenewald, he was also my mentor, and the EPV for the hedgecutter is Aaron Kelly. I spent almost all my time working alongside these two people and below is some feedback I received from them.
My responsibilities included the design of product tests, the completion of test reports, the design and construction of test rigs and the repair of products for field testers. I also contributed to design team meetings and gained direct experience of the production line to understand the impact of design decisions on the production efficiency and costs.
“Liam has been a great addition to the team. He has shown initiative through-out his time with Bosch. This has been very impressive to see from a student. I feel confident giving Liam many tasks and he will complete the job with minimal further input from myself or others. If he needs further information concerning a test for instance, he will reference the standards needed. If then he still does not feel he fully understands, the engineers will fully support him. Liam is not one to sit and wait for tasks. He often comes to a member of the team once tasks are complete and asks for more to do. He has also been found to look into test plans to see if there are any tasks he can complete without prompting.” - Aaron Kelly
Below are some images of work I completed, unfortunately I cannot show images of the products themselves as a confidentiality agreement was signed. The products are targeted to be released in early 2016. Starting from the bottom left, I undertook the following tasks: • Designed and built a vibration test rig to an engineer’s requirements • Constructed a control box for use on an endurance test rig • Multiple noise emission tests with Bosch and competitior products • Designed and made an electronics enclosure, including bead blasting and hand bending for use on a test rig constructed by a colleague and I • Designed, built and tested a hedgecutter rig for use at a conference in Germany • Machined parts of hedgecutter blades to be trialled in the field • Prepared and attached thermocouples to a product to measure any potential temperature rise during prolonged operation
“I can only agree with what Aaron has written. As mentioned before, we’ve seen many students come and go with different backgrounds of experience and knowledge. For Liam, I was very impressed with the confidence shown in his work and how he strived to do things independently as he took interest in the work we give him. Additionally, I have noticed that for many tasks Liam would always make an effort to find better ways of doing them, and to do it in a quicker/more efficient way. This shows initiative!” - Robert Groenwald
SPARK Spark was a project completed with the Northern Housing Consortium with the aim of designing a product or service to help dementia patients. In collaboration with Northern Housing Consortium
Spark is an app and tablet system designed to help and accompany those suffering various stages of dementia. Initially Spark would just be released in the app format, with the custom tablet and display stand shown on the right to be released later. Spark allows relatives and carers to upload images, music, calender events and reminders through a cloud accessed system. Relatives and carers can also video call the user.
WebEx Queue Pod When using WebEx it can become difficult to get a point across or hear others talking due to a bad microphone, connection and speakers. The queue pod aims to counter these issues. In collaboration with Seymour Powell
Concept development and model making
Process storyboarding
Photoshop / KeyShot and marker renderings
SOUNDBITE Looking into innovation and the growing use of 3D printing led to SoundBite, a printed chocolate soundwave gift. Produced for the Lexus design competition
SoundBite is a service for 3D printing chocolate soundwave gifts. This integrates all five of the senses throughout the experience of receiving the chocolate as a gift. This design was published in an article on the Insomniac blog, a popular culture and arts website. It was also selected to be featured on Coroflot’s home page (design portfolio and job website).
Variety of flavours and colours of chocolate available
Record a Message. Converted to a soundwave. Soundwave 3D printed. Product posted.
Open packaging to chocolate message. Download app. Scan chocolate. Play message.
Suitable for everyone
Comes with a high quality print copy of the message for multiple playbacks
Coroflot SoundBite page
Insomniac events article
ORB Collectable, customisable and portable nightlights designed in a variety of animal shapes. Orb provides an inductively charged toy and bedroom object.
Generic bedroom lighting
Simple packaging to display the full product and make the choice of base or light easy
Animal based kids lighting Plain light sphere except for on/ off switch and a micro USB for charging
Light pod kids lighting
Light sphere charged via USB port, could be inductively charged Tail will lead to power socket
Development of light pod design
Fuse FUSE
Fuse is an app and web based service for those looking to either get a task completed or post a job. I designed all components of Fuse with a focus on the sharing economy. Produced for the RSA Student Design Award
FUSE IS A PLATFORM FOR POSTING SMALL JOBS
Fuse
Secure, Profitable, Synergies
FUSE IS ALSO A PLACE TO MAKE AN INCOME
How Fuse works
Salim - Fuser Works long hours high income little time for chores
Select post a job option, fill out boxes Sign up with basic information
Browse the reviews of the Fusees who accepted
Select a Fusee to complete your task
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Message Fusee to arrange time for task completion
To begin task, Fusee enters a PIN into Fuser’s phone
Once completed, both participants confirm it through their device
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Add aditional required information and await verification
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Optional - add additional information such as qualifications
Begin responding to job notifications
Select a job and click accept
Joe - Fusee On summer holiday Low income student Plenty of spare time
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30 minutes after tasks are complete, participants rate each other across 5 categories
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The benefits of Fuse For the Fuser
Quickly view and compare the reputations of Fusee’s
Easily and efiiciently get a variety of tasks completed
Set your own prices for tasks and wait for acceptance
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For the Fusee
Build a reputation and potentially make an income
A high Fuse reputation could become something that is added to a CV
Help find work and build employment history for 18-24 year olds
For all members
Build an online community, connecting respectable people safely and easily
Fusees can be both businesses and individuals, making it fair for both
Use Fuse forums to get advice for any jobs which could be completed alone
TRIO Consistent and efficient cutting was the aim of the Trio knife range. A combination of shredding scissors and kitchen knives led to this piece of design.
Trio is a knife designed to improve cutting efficiency and accuracy. Thought up through a brief which required the combination of two products, Trio combines a pair of shredding scissors and a knife.
Pink foam sketch models
Anodised blade indicator
Filleted elipses stop sticking
Engraved Trio logo
All knives modelled in SolidWorks and rendered in KeyShot
Additional work
The images on this page show CAD models designed by me for a variety of projects. Piega (bottom left) was modelled in SketchUp then rendered in KeyShot. This was a project to design furniture which adapts as a child ages. The Zippo and Parker pens were both modelled and assembled in SolidWorks as briefs to produce a realistic looking object constructed of multiple parts (the Zippo had 20 and the pen had 10). Both were then rendered using KeyShot Finally, the torches were done outside of University as a practice in the use of creating knurl patterns, threads and using the loft feature.
This page shows two examples of my degree course year two modelling briefs. The first is a scale model of a lego man at 3x its original size. We began by making technical drawings, then modelling the lego man from jelutong, MDF and pink foam. To create each individual part of the lego man meant using a variety of modelling techniques and workshop equipment. The second was for a brief titled “non-lit forms�. The aim of this brief was to sketch and model something that looks as though it has electronic function, without the purpose of it being obvious. This was achieved by adding screw holes, speaker grills and split lines.
In November 2015, I started a company called FSB Digital Ltd. with two friends. We have done this to gain business experience rather than as a full time commercial venture. We are currently developing a game to be listed on the iOS app store in the near future. My role in the company is to provide all of the creative design input. This has included drafting game screens, creating brand identities, and designing in game characters and objects. I have also been assisting with some aspects of the coding and the business and marketing.
THANKS FOR LOOKING Any questions? Don’t hesitate to contact me +44 (0) 7540 556040 liamsholicar@gmail.com uk.linkedin.com/in/liamsholicar