Sam's Portfolio

Lihao Lyu Present China | U.K. 2017

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Industrial Design

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Vertical Fans

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Growing Up Children Table-Chair Set

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Nutcracker

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Foldable Live Video Drone

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Food Waste Disposal Machine

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Digital Media Design

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Future Train Dashboard

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Future Bank Currency

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Edinburgh City Time-lapse Video

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Trip Photo Lover Web Design

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Edinburgh Memory Bicycle Installation

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Hexagonal City Planning in Virtual Environment

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Sketch

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Photography

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Industrial Design

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Vertical Humidifying Fan Year: 2013

Software:

Rhino, KeyShot, Photoshop

Duration: 3 months

Purpose:

This is the ‘Vertical Humidifying Fan’ created for an undergraduate course.

This fan has unique shaped vertical fan blades. The blades vertically spin to generate a gentle breeze, helping to spread the cool or warm humidified air from the centre tube. The central tube will contain liquid which can be heated or cooled by the designated compartment. This way, the multi-use fan control the room temperature, whilst providing a comfortable chamber.

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Growing Up Children Table-Chair Set Year: 2014

Software:

Sketchup, MAYA, Photoshop

Duration: 6 months

Purpose:

This is a design project from the third year of my undergraduate degree. As babies age, different age-appropriate furniture is required. This usually leads to a large monetary investment.

In response this concept was created, an adaptable furniture set that may be used throughout family’s lifetime. This piece of furniture can be changed into four combinations, suiting different ages and circumstances. It is designed to imitate a Chinese style to fit into the intended market.

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Nutcracker Year: 2015

Software:

Rhino, KeyShot, Photoshop

Duration: 6 months

Purpose:

This design is for the new branding of the walnut industry in JiaXing City, ZheJiang Province, China.

After examining existing market research, we found several defects in the packaging of the walnuts. In response these defects; the following multi-purposes idea was created, which combines an impact-driven nutcracker and a storage jar.

Achievement: ZheJiang Province Industrial Design competition Third Place.

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Foldable Live Video Drone Year: 2015

Software:

Creo (Pro Engineer), KeyShot, Photoshop, Aftert Effects

Duration: 6 months

Purpose:

This product is intended for the vast online community that wish to explore the world but lack the necessary time and money to do so.

The drone is released from an outdoor platform, in the desired location, streaming back videos to the consumer to experience their leisure.

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Food Waste Disposal Machine Year: 2016

Software:

Creo (Pro Engineer), KeyShot, Photoshop

Duration: 1 month

Purpose: This project was intended for a company based in Zhejiang, China called Aisini Environmental Technology. My design was selected by them to produce for public consumers. This machine intended to turn food waste into fertilizer and target to Large-scale residential area.

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Digital Media Design

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Future Train Dashboard Year: 2016

Software:

Processing

Duration: 4 months

Purpose: The following design was my first time experience doing visualization with code. The dashboard is based on a round template. The different size circles represent the hierarchy of this dashboard.

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Future Bank Currency Year: 2016

Software:

Photoshop, Illustrator

Duration: 3 months

Purpose: This set of bank currency were designed for future under sea human civilization. Full currency set including 50, 100, 500, 1000 notes, 1, 10 coins, citizen ID card and 5000, 10000 cards. Notes are themed animals, construction and transportation.

Coins are based on honey comb shape. ID card has facial recognition and finger print reader.

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Edinburgh City Time-lapse Video Year: 2017

Software:

After effects, Premiere

Duration: 3 months

Purpose: This video represents the beautiful City of Edinburgh, Scotland.

The scenes were shot from Arthur’s seat, Fife bridge, Calton Hill and many other locations in and around Edinburgh.

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Trip Photo Lover Web Design Year: 2017

Skills:

Dreamweaver, Sequel Pro, Photoshop

Duration: 3 months

Purpose: This website is a photo sharing website. It has login and logout system, uploading function, searching function and able to classify content by geotags.

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Edinburgh Memory Bicycle Installation Year: 2017

Software:

Processing, Dreamweaver

Duration: 3 months

Purpose: We extracted data from the Edinburgh city council’s website, ‘edinburghcollected.org’, in the form of city memory photos and information. We used these photos and geotags made our Database and Hot-map. Then we recorded the current street view video by driving through those locations, then cross referenced these locations with the extracted memories from the city council website. Give user a time traveling style virtual experience.

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Hexagonal City Planning in Virtual Environment Year: 2017

Software:

MAYA, Unity, Premier, Blender, Subspainter

Duration: 4 months

Purpose: This is a virtual environment design for the future urban planning of Edinburgh. I used honey comb shape as the base idea of my research. The goal of this research was to convince the Edinburgh city council that hexagonal theory is a underrated, a more efficient, safer form of urban planning for future.

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Sketch

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Photography

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