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I decided to be an Industrial Designer to tackle real world problems by learning about user experiences
Hi! My name is Christopher Barker. I’m living in Newcastle and studying Design for Industry at Northumbria University. I’m excited by Industrial design because every project is an opportunity to tell stories about users and how they experience and interact with our world. As I develop these observations I aim to innovative and create original solutions to real world problems and approach every challenge with a hollistic perspective.
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ABOUT ME Christopher Barker Northumbria University, Newcastle
Industrial Design Undergraduate.
+44 7494 346738 christopherlb955 @gmail.com 317 Chillingham road Heaton Newcastle Upon Tyne and Wear NE65SB
NOW
2014 -2018
BA(Hons) Design for Industry
Currently studying in my second year I’m commited to developing my skills and furthering my aspirations to design transport. Lancaster & Morcambe college
2012 - 2014
BTEC Level 3 Art and Design Destinction*Destinction*Destinction
During my time at college I refined my creative skills. Dominos Pizza 2012 - 2013
Shift Manager
While managing my team at dominos I learnt how to manage a group and utilise everyones skills. James Cropper PLC
2011 - 2012
Crest Gold Award
2009 - 2012
GCSE/AS Studies
Crest involved a 12month placement at Croppers paper mill in Stavely, cumbria where my group of 4 looked into improving the efficiency of the plants production line. Kirkbie Kendal School
13 GCSE A*-C, B -General Studies
During out of school hours and worked on a year long engineering project for a CREST Gold award with the Physics department.
DOB. 29/03/1995
1995
Essex, England
Born
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ABOUT ME PRACTICAL Creative techniques Market research Sketching Rendering Prototyping Modelmaking Photography Graphics SOFTWARE Windows OS MAC OS Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesign Adobe AfterAffects Adobe Premier iMovie Rhino3d Solidworks Wacom tablet
MY INTERESTS Reading Photography
Sci-fi Music
Technology
Transport design Cars
Travel Culture The Wild!
Sketching
PRODUCT FOR PETS Using primarily plastics I designed a product for pets
DURATION 4 weeks YEAR 2016 University project Northumbria School of Design
PRODUCTS FOR PETS
PRODUCTS FOR PETS I designed a pet accessory product primarily in plastics. The design had to be:
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Original Environmentally aware and sustainable Cost effective to manufacture Affordable and user friendly Robust enough to sustain regular use by pets
With this vision I created Aura, a vivarium for exotic pets designed to celebrate nature while making the experience fanacially and practically asseccible.
ANTICIPATION
Anticipation Using the theme ‘Anticipation’ as a starting point, I developed a concept for an installation. The brief is NOT to design a car accessory. As the brief is relatively open, it would be wise to be decisive as I could and not potentially waste a lot of time thinking of a direction instead of pursuing one! Lexus Design Award explain this theme as follows: The theme for the LEXUS DESIGN AWARD 2016 is ‘Anticipation’. At LEXUS, we strive to develop products and services by anticipating the needs of people and society. This year’s applicants are encouraged to submit innovative designs and unique interpretations that are true to the essence of the theme.
ANTICIPATION
Sound VS Sight If we visualise the world as series of reverberating sound waves how different would it look compared with healthy vision? To see sound I created an acousitic landscape based on audio clips from Northumbria street. In this landscape, loud sounds bulge more than quiet ones and sharp sounds are more pointed then deep soft sounds. For example a police siren would jut out alot and appear jagged, where as the constant hum of people would be a subtle curvy reverberation.
ANTICIPATION MODELLING PROCESS Laser cutting was the obvious candidate for my manufacturing requirements. Each component was accurately drawn out on illustrator then cut by laser and constructed by hand.
PHYSICAL MODEL Through laser cutting I can stack up layers which communicate the movement of sound waves. Light between layers pulsates to simulate the energetic nature of sound as changes in pitch.
USER EXPERIENCE As a designer this installation is a powerful tool, it provides a different perspective on the urban landscape. Each sense paints a very different picture of enviroments we are familiar with. People walking through this construct would understand the dramatic differences between anticipating our world via sight and sound. I would hope it would encourage us to consider our experiences through a range of our senses and discover whole new dimensions to the otherwise mundain.
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NON-LITERAL PRODUCTS
Non-Literal products In professional practice, we often think of how we interact with the products we're designing on 3 different levels: attract, engage and extend. Sketching, with its varied levels of detail ranging from doodle to final rendering, should be approached the same way. * At the attract level we try to think of the gesture of the product—the 10 ft read, the form and silhouette of the product. * At the engage level we consider the details—how they compliment or contrast with the gesture, how the product feels in the users hand. * At the extend level consider how the product changes over time—how the materials age, how the product can be disassembled at the end of its life. In the context of this project, the attract and engage “levels” are wholly relevant, but the final (extend) “level” is being substituted for ‘communicate’. As such, I investigated how any ‘non-literal product’ communicates any expected interaction with the ‘user’.
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OPEN DENTAL
A live project with the NHS to modernise community dentistry DURATION 3 month YEAR 2014 University project Northumbria School of Design in association with the NHS
Voice-to-text The main quality of our insight was to preserve a natural conversation while attaining vital patient infomation. To do this we researched voice recognition and discovered a free piece of software from IBM which allowed us to translate spoken word into a text document. By creating a more natural conversation basis between patient and dentist we could hopefully make the experience less stressful for the patient while making it easier for a community dentist to go about their work. To realise this idea we decided to develop an app which would streamline the process and simplify the technology. We called this NHS Record.
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NHS Record NHS Record is a social interaction service which streamlines the data retrieval procedure. Encouraging a natural, confidence building relationship between patient and dentist. It gives the dentist the tools to communicate their professional advice in a coherent and approachable format and allows the patient the freedom to communicate their thoughts and develop a comfortable communications bridge between the public and professional sectors.
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