Harry Parr-Young
Furniture & Product Designer
Contents Family Donkey
HUG-MUG
First Aid Splinter Kit
The Mug-Hug embraces your mug, to prevent fatal spillages onto your work, or laptop.
Tesco Value Speed Trolley For the Tesco shopper in a hurry.
Gordinho “Cork-Board”
Goblin Stool-Chair Acquired from the local Hob Goblin, Stool-Chair offers support and balance in a variety of ways for the customer who has had a few too many.
First Aid Splinter Kit With the generally perceived hidden function of a needle being used to extract splinters from the skin, the First Aid Splinter Kit was conceived. Designed mainly for the workshops, the kit comes with a lighter to sterilise the needle, which keeps its sewing reference by being threaded through fabric.
An organic aesthetic is introduced to the conventional office desk by the “Cork-Board” It takes its inspiration from a standard cork wine bottle. Red and White pins determine the urgency of the note.
For an aesthetically pleasing experience, the border of the box is a golden rectangle, to frame the contents of the splinter kit.
Gordinho, gives out a warm, organic colour due to the material that it’s made from - Cork. The portable piece can be moved anywhere in the room, emphasising the heat-insulating properties of cork, the tactile grip handle keeps warm, complementing the colour that it achieves. Gordinho is manufactured by laminating diecut sheets of cork, retaining a natural finish.
Prototype Process Cable-Drum
Turning laminated sheets of cork on the lathe, hollowing through the cork structure to allow fitting for an energy saving bulb.
Influenced by the I-beam, “Cable-Drum” uses the language of ready-made objects from industrial origins, transformed into an elegant, well crafted piece of furniture, allowing the user to decide how to interact with it.
Martino Gamper week & Exhibition at the V&A
The routered hole detailing, references the standard cable drum. Its one piece aesthetic, illustrates the careful joinery in the Mathew Hilton range.
In-Book
Family Donkey A portable donkey that lives in the home, for family members to deposit and organise their objects lying around the house. The portable saddle-bag aesthetic of the design, has plenty of room for it to be flexible in its usage, being open to interpretation by the user of how to interact with the piece.
Cable-Drum “Cable-Drum” is inspired by the observation of objects in an industrial context and a reinterpretation of their intended purpose by Matthew Hilton with his “I-beam”. “Cable-Drum” brings elegance and thoughtful detailing to the standard cable drum, with a language suitable for the Hilton range. The “Cable-Drum”, has no straight forward function, offering the user to discover how to interact with the piece.
Corian +1 (Broken Crockery)
Family Donkey
Ink Well Corian + 1 other material that would achieve a rational bond, was an investigative material-led project. A reuse and reinterpretation of broken crockery, the limited edition range emphasises the contrast in texture and in properties. This can result in the user discovering the harmony of 2 materials used to create unique objects.
The cork Ink Well relates to the traditional understanding of an ink well in terms of aesthetics and importance to the individual´s writing tool. The cork keeps the tip of the pen from drying out, due to its insulating properties.
Harry Parr-Young
The second year of this course was the first real opportunity to experience a taste of what a designer has to go through when working on a brief in collaboration with a company. Important lessons were learned, like taking into account the production, commercial and marketing side of a design brief and having a realistic approach to concepts with an awareness of the market and social behaviour. With a personal interest in social interaction, the work in this Portfolio plays with perceived notions of how we interact with objects, emphasising objects, allowing the consumer the opportunity to come up with his/her own additional interpretations. This belief is illustrated throughout the portfolio, enjoy.
2nd Year Contemporary Furniture Design & Related Product Design
First Aid Splinter Kit
First Aid Splinter Kit With the generally perceived hidden function of a needle being used to extract splinters from the skin, the First Aid Splinter Kit was conceived. Designed mainly for the workshops, the kit comes with a lighter to sterilise the needle, which keeps its sewing reference by being threaded through fabric. For an aesthetically pleasing experience, the border of the box is proportionally a golden section, to frame the contents of the splinter kit.
Family Donkey A portable donkey that lives in the home, for family members to deposit and organise their objects lying around the house. The portable saddle-bag aesthetic of the design, has plenty of room for it to be flexible in its usage, being open to interpretation by the user of how to interact with the piece.
Family Donkey
Family Donkey
Gordinho
Gordinho, gives out a warm, organic colour due to the material that it’s made from - Cork. The portable piece can be moved anywhere in the room, emphasising the heat-insulating properties of cork, the tactile grip handle keeps warm, complementing the colour that it achieves. Gordinho is manufactured by laminating diecut sheets of cork, retaining a natural finish.
Prototype Process
Turning laminated sheets of cork on the lathe, hollowing through the cork structure to allow fitting for an energy saving bulb.
Cork Screw
Cork Screw
A warm and organic glow is achieved with the Cork Screw, which is one of the most eco friendly lights available, due to the material and its light source.
The sheet of cork can only be threaded through a standard energy saving bulb, emphasising the eco friendly input.
Previous Design Proposal
Cable-Drum Influenced by the I-beam, “Cable-Drum� uses the language of ready-made objects from industrial origins, transformed into an elegant, well crafted piece of furniture, allowing the user to decide how to interact with it. The routered hole detailing, references the standard cable drum. Its one piece aesthetic, illustrates the careful joinery in the Mathew Hilton range.
In-Book
Cable-Drum “Cable-Drum” is inspired by the observation of objects in an industrial context and a reinterpretation of their intended purpose by Matthew Hilton with his “I-beam”. “Cable-Drum” brings elegance and thoughtful detailing to the standard cable drum, with a language suitable for the Hilton range. The “Cable-Drum”, has no straight forward function, offering the user to discover how to interact with the piece.
Tesco Value Speed Trolley For the Tesco shopper in a hurry.
Goblin Stool-Chair Acquired from the local Hob-Goblin, Stool-Chair offers support and balance in a variety of ways for the customer who has had a few too many.
Martino Gamper week & Exhibition at the V&A
HUG-MUG
The Mug-Hug embraces your mug, to prevent fatal spillages onto your work, or laptop.
Ink Well
The cork Ink Well relates to the traditional understanding of an ink well in terms of aesthetics and importance to the individual´s writing tool. The cork keeps the tip of the pen from drying out, due to its insulating properties.
“Cork-Board”
An organic aesthetic is introduced to the conventional office desk by the “Cork-Board” It takes its inspiration from a standard cork wine bottle. Red and White pins determine the urgency of the note.
Corian + 1
Corian +1 (Broken Crockery)
Corian + 1 other material that would achieve a rational bond, was an investigative material-led project. A reuse and reinterpretation of broken crockery, the limited edition range emphasises the contrast in texture and in properties. This can result in the user discovering the harmony of 2 materials used to create unique objects.
Harry Parr-Young
Obrigado.