Amy Buchanan Portfolio Furniture and Product Design
About Me I am a first year student studying Furniture and Product Design at Nottingham Trent University. Whilst completing my Art and Design Foundation at Loughborough University, I had discovered a passion and drive to design products. This past year I have learnt many new skills and I hope this portfolio shows this.
Contents Page
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Christmas Decorations
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Personal Homeware Product
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Online Furniture Retail
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Personal Design Project Part B
Christmas Decorations The Brief: To design a Christmas decoration for a brand; choose a brand and consider what the brand represents. To identify a target market and conduct market research on existing products.Consider the experience, manufacure process and advertising.
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Applying hand rendering to designs.
Final render drawing
Development sketches and finalising shape.
Initial and development sketches of the gift bauble. Deciding shape and fixing.
SolidWorks Drawing Creating blue foam models from development drawings.
Christmas Decorations Devlopment
Personal Homeware Product The Brief: To design a product that embraces emerging technolgy, the way we that we interact with these products and lead our live’s. Conduct market research into selected area of technolgy and then choose an appropriate brand. Designing utilising current technology, redesigning the aesthetics or how a product is used.
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Initial sketches of activity tracker.
Devloping Sketches Finalising the idea; final render drawings from different perspectives of the activity bracelet. Showing material qualities and branding.
Development drawings; deciding how the bracelet will be attached and adding branding.
Developing sketches; how tracker may be inserted and how bracelet will clasp together.
Personal Homeware Product Development
Online Furniture Retail The Brief: Research the online market and choose a brand to be a client. Considering the market, price point, manufacture capabilities, current ranges of products. To design a new piece of furniture, or collection of furniture or product range for selected brand.
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Finalising idea; where the arm rest will be placed and leg types.
Initial sketches of geometric chairs and stools.
Penultimate drawing; arm rests are in the wrong place and legs needed to be changed. Development sketches; sketching different shapes and sizes.
Final drawing; drawn by hand and rendered on Photoshop.
More inital sketches
Online Furniture Retail Development
PDP Part B The Brief: PDP Part A involved researching into emerging sustainable and environmentally friendly materials and products. Using the research design a new piece of furniture, or collection of furniture or product range for selected brand. End result must consist of at least one material researched.
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Developing final design; deciding on the correct shape and design and that is in proportion.
Initial sketches; focusing on structure of mushroom
Development sketches; selecting favourite shapes and exploring their possibilties.
Final drawings of the Curve Light.
Development sketches; playing around with different shapes and heights and widths.
More development sketches.
PDP Part B Development