ABOUT ME As a former athlete, I’ve always understood the value of team building and teamwork as a part of competitive strategy. Problem solving through adversity was fundamental on a daily basis. My first undergraduate experience at Erskine College(SC) was athletically based as I was given a scholarship to play basketball. The institution did not have an Industrial Design education therefore I chose to major in Visual Arts with the hopes of developing key design skills such as proportion, spatial and other drafting basics. Following my experience at Erskine College(SC), I went on to play professionally for a year in Aalborg(Denmark) while also continuing my education at Aalborg University. I am currently in my 3rd semester majoring in interactive design, where I am applying different skill sets to become a multi-dimensional designer. The purpose of this portfolio is to express the range and development of my design thinking within the past several months following a life of athletics. My goal as a designer is to uniquely mesh the methodologies of actual body and mind experiences.
SKILL SUMMARY Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Illustration/Draftsmanship, Leadership Skills, Microsoft Office, Sport and Fitness Expertise, Art History, Art Theory, Mid-Level C++ / Source Code Programming, Widespread Culture Familiarity
EXPERIENCE BMe Soleciety Master Class August 3rd - 28th, 2015 PENSOLE Footwear Design Academy - Portland, OR • • •
Hands-on, four-week, intensive footwear design master class. Experienced the footwear design process through concept-development, problem solving, material design, networking, marketing, and branding. One of eighteen footwear leaders selected take a product from concept to completion while developing skills in the areas of leadership and professionalism.
Footwear Designer - Ultimate Athlete Project August 14th - 28th, 2015 Under Armour Headquarters/Pensole/BMe - Portland, OR • • •
Designed a unisex training shoe for a heptathlete/decathlete competing in the 2020 Olympics in Qatar. Process included consumer profiling, sketching/ideation, material & colorway selection, digital rendering and final product views. Final concept presented to Under Armour upon completion.
Professional Basketball (Danish Basketliguen) August 2014 - April 2015 Aalborg Vikings - Aalborg, Denmark • • •
Played one season for the Vikings men’s basketball club. Recruited after playing collegiately for 4 seasons(Erskine College). Wing/Forward position.
Office Assistant/RFID Engineer June 2010 - August 2013 RFID Global Solution - Reston, VA • • • •
Developed and presented a design solution for RFID faraday cages. Produced model cages/boxes with innovative sealing solutions withholding various data. Faraday cage design to clarify scanning reads. Process included measuring, sketching, problem solving, trial initiation, prototyping and product development.
Freight Team Worker/Stocker May 2013 - August 2014 Toys R US - Columbia, MD • • • •
Unpackaged freight from delivery trucks upon arrival. Kept track of merchandise inventory through scan and read processes. Updated stock availability based on daily inventory counts. Made products readily available as apart of the morning stock team.
Selected Projects
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BMe/Pensole(Footwear) Under Armour Ultimate Athlete Timberland Option(Footwear) FN Platform Challenge 2016 MareVentus(University/Interactive) Wind Energy Installation PUMA Motorsport(Footwear) AMG Petronas Lifestyle Project Artwork Collection of Fine Arts Coursework
The design task was to design an energy responsive training shoe for both a heptathlete and decathlete competing in the 2020 Olympics(Qatar). The solution sought to provide ample training efficiency by way of enforced fit and maximum flexibility.
CONSUMER
GIA BAEZ NAME 26 AGE Profession Heptathlete Hot Yoga Intrests Worlds greatest Goal Athlete
NAME Oli BAEZ AGE 26 Profession Decathlete Intrests Play-Station Goal Worlds greatest Athlete
FIT
LIGHT ,LOCKED & LOADED
RETURN OF ENERGY
FLEXIBILITY ENHANCED MOVEMENT /REMOVAL
PROBLEM
FORCE
The final design features a 360 degree multi-flex supportive tongue with an auto-aligned lacing texture to fully support yet also free the athlete to keep them focused on the task at hand.
Ultimate Athlete
“That task is being the world’s
by earning the
highest honor at the most prolific event.”
Display Board Assets
Final Design
Task The given assignment was to create an artistic representation of an invisible phenomena transpiring in nature which should appeal to our senses and evoke an emotional response.
DONG Energy The 3rd semester was given the opportunity to collaborate with DONG Energy who provided us with measured wind speed, wind direction, wind temperature and pressure data from several locations around Denmark and England. Dong Energy is world leading in the field of ocean wind and contributes to reduce the CO2 – emission and makes use of Europe’s own energy resources. DONG Energy is also prominent when it comes to converting carbon- and gas-heated power stations to sustainable biomass making heat- and power supply more eco-friendly and flexible. By using the measured data of the invisible phenomena and combining it with the tools of C++ programming, our goal is to make the invisible phenomena visible.
Problem Statement: “How can we represent wind in relation to Dong Energy sea mills placed off shore and get the audience to understand the visual stimuli behind its appearence?�
Sketches
Prototyping & Construction
Construction Refinement
Physical 3D models helped the group establish clear direction in structural form and choice of shape prior to the final construction.
3D-Print Modeling
Final Layout
C++ Programming Display Using AlloSystem as the platform for our C++ source code, the program was visualized with the use of DONG Energy data spreadsheets. The result of the program projected onto the raft to complete the installation. The program was created to complement wind and energy motions.
Thank you.
Brandon Bjerre bjerrebrandon@gmail.com +4531657756 Aalborg University https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandonbjerre