Dan Powell - Product Design Portfolio 2020

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Dan P Powell

Design Experience Spiral Product Design Placement year as a junior designer in a homeware and furniture design consultancy.

Live Projects University projects that worked with live briefs along with clients like Nestle, Pearson Lloyd, Wilko, Innovia and Rapha Clients

Dan Powell Contact

Product Designer Tel 07534776841

dan.powell98@hotmail.com

about me

Spiral Clients 2019/20Made.com Anthropologie Mackenzie-Childs Content by Conran.

University Clients Nestle Pearson Lloyd Wilko Innovia Skills

I am a BA Product Designer currently studying at Nottingham Trent University. I continue to develop the necessary skills and knowledge required in the design industry by tackling challenging briefs and exciting design tasks.

Adobe Photoshop Indesign Illustrator

My innovative persona, combined with my hard work ethic hopes to establish myself in this industry by expressing my thoughts passionately in my work.

CAD Solid Works Corel Draw Keyshot Other Sketching 3D Models

My Work.

Spiral Placement Work

Droplet Production

Otto Pearson Lloyd

Milky Starpack

Blox World Wilko

Pocket Innovia

Luce RSA

My Fridge PDP

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Spiral Product Design year in industry

- Placement year 52 weeks

Junior Designer Producing CAD visual designs and technical drawings for live briefs from clients like Made.com, Anthropologie, Conteny by Conran, Mackenzie-Childs.

Responsible for the 3D visuals and presentation of ideas to client .

Spiral Product Design Examples of design work I was associated with over the placement year that is now sold online: Made.com - Samson Range Made.Com had approached Spiral to try and create a bathroom range from their existing strip metal design. This was to creatively inspire the range and create a collection for customers to buy into.

They were asking for the addition of the range to include mirrors, shelving, freestanding toilet roll holders and towel rails as well as a caddy. These would all match the exisiting base colour black Iron.

- Mora Oval Table Made.Com were requesting a concept for a six-seater oval table featuring a glass table top and brass legs. In the end the final design was to use many individual brass rods that go diagonally over one another with the addition of oval structural supports to create a solid support base to hold the glass table top.

Samson

Samson Industrial Style Towel Rack Made.Com £29

Samson Industrial Style Freestanding Towel Rack Made.Com £89

Samson Industrial Style Wall Shelf Made.Com £29

Bathroom Samson Industrial Wall Mirror Made.Com £29

Samson Industrial Style Wall Hooks Made.Com £29

Range

Samson Industrial Style Freestanding Toilet Roll Holder Made.Com £29

Mora

Mora Oval Table Made.Com ÂŁ699

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Droplet where flowers belong

- Individual Project 4 weeks

Brief Explore the commercial home-ware market, developing a single or range of products specifically for sheet material

Vases shape created from flat sheet aluminium net.

Vase comes in three sizes; small, medium and large

Vase comes in three colours; Black, Rosewood and Slate Grey

Little Slits that flow from the top to down the sides allow the flowers to breathe and have space.

The open square shape should offer sufficient space for flowers to be stored in and offer the option for a watering hole.

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Otto

Living in Small Spaces

- Individual Project 4 weeks

Brief To design a living space & product for the young, mobile, urban dweller of the 21st century. Your living space is limited to 15sq meters and must incorporate the basic housing products.

Entertainment challenge - the user hosting gatherings of 3+ people.

OTTO

A solo seat presence that transforms into a duo seating arrangement to accomodate guests and aid conversation.

Unzip

Unfold

Sit

Storyboard “Design a product to accomodate and entertain guests without the use of a tv whilst being space saving.�

Sara has arranged to have a group of friends round at her apartment tonight. Facetime incoming...

Sara thankfully has Otto! She starts to prepare Otto from a solo seat to a duo seat...

Sara is thinking how she could seat all her friends in such a small apartment...

After unzipping and folding out Otto. All her seating Sara and her friends chat the night away with the worries have disappeared... comfort from Otto beneath them..

15m2

Micro Apartment An open space living and kitchen creates an illusion of a larger space. All appliances either hidden inside compartments or on view. The use of a lofted bedroom allows privacy when desired, as well as the high ceilings creating light and a sense of freedom.

Otto allows the user to accomodate guests within this small space without having to store other seating elsewhere in the apartment. Otto can also be stacked and placed out the way when more space is needed.

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Milky

Milk for the household

- Starpack Individual Project 4 weeks

Brief To design the next generation of milk bottle packaging in the form of a 2-pint fresh milk bottle made from plastic.

60%

of milk is consumed by children

32%

of milk sold in Britain is in a 4-pint container

80%

of liquid milk is now sold in plastic containers

design.

Material & Manufacture

-HDPE -Shiny gloss lid and matte white bottle -Recyclable material

Use

- Lift off lid -Pour milk out of spout -Store in fridge

Design

-Slick and smooth - Pink, Black, White all associated with Cow milk

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Blox World Explore, Learn, Collect

- Wilko Individual Project 4 weeks

Brief To design an innovative new product for the ‘Blox’ product range to be sold in Wilko stores across the UK. Supported by in-depth research into your chosen

Research. $2.6bn the value of the toys and games sector in the uk.

64%

of consumers would prefer their child to play with a collectible or STEM toy.

play scenario.

Rolled Mat

Blox World starts with a rolled up mat, containing the world imprint with the silicone blox pieces mould.

Un-Rolled Mat

Blox World un rolls into a 840 x 1188mm size playmat, the child can easily view colour themed continents, along with identifying countries.

Blox Pieces

Architectural attractions across the world, will be availble to purchase. Each has to be built from scratch from the existing blox pieces.

Storage

Just roll up and store away when not in use.

Architectural Monument to build the attraction, a replica model of that design should have been created.

Map It!

The completed architecural monument can then be positioned onto the map, challenging the childs geographical knowledge.

Collect and Complete!

Collect and build all the architectural learning about each monument.

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Pocket Just say the word

- Innovia Individual Project 4 weeks

Brief Develop an aesthetically stunning product based around the future of mobile technology for the disconnected elderly

51%

of people aged 75 and over live alone

6

days is what half a million elderly people go through without speaking to someone.

18%

of elderly feel comfortable learning to use technology

pocket Hand-Held Voice Assistant Companion Home and Away Use

pocket

Just say the word

“Hey Pocket, what does my diary look like today?”

“You have a doctors check up at 11, shall I book a taxi?

“Yes Please.”

pocket

Speak and let pocket do the rest.

Reminders

Message

Phone Call Calendar

Group Chats

pocket “Hey Pocket, read out my messages.”

“Ok. Message from Pauline: Fancy eating out tonight?”

“Pocket, reply back with: That sounds lovely.”

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LUCE

bringing light to story time

- RSA Group Project 4 weeks

Brief Accounting for how different groups in society are affected by loneliness, design a way to reduce its impact on one or more of the following: physical health, mental health, or access to services.

Day in the life Stay at home parent

7:00 - Wake e up 7:30 - Make e family breakfast 8:30 - Take kids to school 9:00 - Housse chores

12:00 - Lunc ch 13:00 - Hom me exercise 13:30 - Free time

15:30 - Colle ect kids from school 17:00 - Dinn ner prep 18:00 - Dinn ner time 18:30 - Family time

20:00 - Kidss to bed 20:00 - Social with other half 22:00 - Bedtime

LUCE

LUCE is an app and projector that strengthens community within the stay at home parent demographic.

Parents and children (ages 4 - 8) will be given a reading guide day by day that can be viewed through the LUCE projector and read out from the discrete speaker.

The community aspect is formed by the digital LUCE forum for parents, where parents from a specific school and or area can review the books, discuss topics on the community chat and arrange play-dates with their chidren, going through the reading guide.

The scenario of a play-date allows parents to get together during their typically busy day and socialise, even if it is as simple as going to your neighbour’s house.

LUCE APP

STORY BOARD Parents create a profile and browse the selection of books on offer daily within the guide.

Once decided, connect to LUCE allowing audio and projection of the desired book cover to boost user experience for all.

The opportunity to discuss the book in forums and chat to friends is all within the LUCE app.

‘Read & Share’

07 My Fridge PDP

- PDP Individual Project 4 weeks

Brief To design a product that influences consumer behaviour to prepare, plan and acknowledge around the food expiration date.

FOOD WASTE “Of the 7.1 million tonnes we throw away, almost three quarters (70% of the total) is food we could have eaten”

HOW WILL A CHANGE IN CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR TOWARDS THE PLANNING AND ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF FOOD HELP TO MINIMISE FOOD WASTE?

“48% of avoidable waste was cited as ‘not being used in time’.”

Reasons of ‘looking’ or ‘smelling off’ was the trigger for the 48% of food thrown away .

“A date label was mentioned as the trigger for disposal for one third of such instances; 16% of all avoidable food waste.”

“Food that could have been eaten but gets thrown away is worth almost £70 per month for the average family with children.”

Glass smart screen allowing interaction through touch.

Magnetic back to allow attatching to any magnetic fridge surface.

Scan bar that examines food packaging and stores all relevant data.

Various interfaces on food expiry dates, shopping, meal suggestions and meal planning.

“My Fridge� Features Touchscreen interface to view all necessary food information.

Expiration Dates are consistently acknowledged through the food data collected.

Suggestions on meals to have based on what is left in your fridge and what is due to expire soon.

Items added to a shopping list when food / drink is running low and required again.

Scan food packaging to collect information on expiration dates and servings.

Connect to the app to recieve alerts and reminders for when food is expiring when out the house.

thank you.