For my Major Project I wanted to design something which could potentially make a huge impact on the world if it were to ever appear on the market. At the time of me choosing a project, there was a lot of news about cyclists having accidents due to them not being seen sufficiently by other motorists on the road. I instantly thought that this would be a worthy route to follow. Through thorough research, I found that cyclists lack of visibility was one of the key problems contributing to the amount of accidents happening. Also, I found that cyclists have many problems seeing what's around them in time to see the accident coming and prevent it happening. So out of this brief, the iCycle was born. My intent for the iCycle was to design a bespoke handle bar and rear lighting system. They had to be interconnected electronically and could be bought as an aftermarket accessory and fitted to any bicycle whether new, old or used.
iCycle Technical Drawings Various hand sketches and renders showing the development stages of the iCycle design.
iCycle Technical Drawings Front and Top elevations of the iCycle handle bar and rear lighting designs.
Exploded Image showing the in depth design and all components of both the iCycle handle bar and iCycle rear light.
THE POWER OF A L U M I N I U M
The Power of Aluminium was a competition based project, which asked for one to design anything they liked as long as its main form was made out of extruded aluminium. For this for project I decided to design my own pedal exerciser as most of the ones already on the market were made out of mild steel and I thought that extruded aluminium would be a great material to make one out of, due to its light weight and strength. The eMotion is a compact lightweight pedal exerciser which utilised an extruded aluminium structure for neatness of design. It also allows the provision of a simple pedal adjustment which increases and decreases the amount of pressure needed for to rotate the pedals.
Contextual Image
Development Sketches
THE POWER OF A L U M I N I U M
Exploded View showing the basic construction and design of the eMotion pedal exercisers. Also can be seen the simple but effective pressure adjustment mechanism.
Wall Light Design
Hanging Light Design The Docomo module was a group project. Within this project we needed to redesign an existing phone shop to allow for the takeover of the Docomo phone company. For our design we wanted to aim for a futuristic and space age look, to really make the phone shopping experience more special and exclusive. My main contributions to the project were to design the central phone holder, pop up store (to be used in town centres) and the lighting for the store. To do this and to stick to the aims already set. I decided to make the basic design of the pop up store and the shops central feature the same. This allowed for a large space age design to be used and really emphasise on being the main feature.
‘Armour’ Wall Light
Bell Hanging Light
Hanging Light Design Exploded View
These two pictures shown feature my main centre display and lighting designs, put into context by one of the interior designers in which I worked with within the group project.
In keeping with the space age and futuristic theme for our store. I wanted to make our Docomo pop up store and main shop feature as grand and large as possible. One of the problems I faced doing this, was that the store had many ceiling support pillars, which meant that my design would have to be circular and be built around the existing pillars. This in the end gave a pleasing design which utilised space really well within the shop, but still looked in place on the high street as the pop up store.
Phone Holder
Information Interface
The beach hut project was a module I done in the second year of my degree. The brief was to redesign the aging ‘shed like’ beach hut was have now into a stylish new beach hut for the 21st century. I immediately thought that if the beach hut could be a collapsible items (like a tent) then the hut could easily be transported to and from the destination chosen by the user easily and wouldn’t need to be a fully built structure. To allow for the hut to collapse I designed a wooded folding frame and cover it in canvas. Having designed the hut, the problem of holding the Hut down arose. I fixed this by adding two detachable sand buckets, which the user fills with sand to stop the hut being effected by cross winds and the tide.
Technical Drawing
To prove that my idea could be done, I decided to make a scale model of my beach hut design. This was done by using 3mm wire as the frame, two circular pivot points, two vacuum formed sand buckets and a canvas covering. Overall it worked well, showing simple but effective way the frame opens and closes.
The Curiosity project was a module based around the work “Curiosity� We had to come up with a product which would make the someone curious to use it. So I designed the Whizz Kid. Which is a motorised children's toy which detects when a child is approaching and scurry's away quickly. This is done by using electronic motion sensors and detectors.
Exploded View Showing internal components