Industrial Design Portfolio by Katelyn Nigus

Katelyn Nigus

913-488-2263 kat.nigus@gmail.com 12189 S. Foxridge Dr Olathe, KS, 66062

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All design begins with ...

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the human user

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Elements - Product Design Focuses on objects, goods, services interfaces and experiences intimately connected to the human sphere

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Findings by Dave Richter-O’Connell

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Herman Miller Project

Mindful Movement

Get Growing

Slow, Go, Whoa

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Redact Physical Exam Table Problem: Design a physical exam table for patients of varying needs and establish better communication between doctor and patient Solution: The Redact Exam table is an efficient piece of furniture that helps to reduce patient anxiety as well as help caregivers take action in giving the best possible care to their patients.

Along with its various functions to provide optimal patient comfort, Redacts ability to be mobile helps with caregiver efficiency.

Its compact size creates a great space saver in examination rooms while not diminishing the quality of the physical exam.

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1. Reduce surface contamination

2. Reduce patient falls

3. Decrease medication errors

4. Improve Communication

7. Improve environmental safety

8. Represent the best investment (Furniture Design Feature, 2014)

Quality 5. Decrease stress and fatigue

6. Improve staff effectiveness, efficiency, and communication

By implementing these eight goals, an effective prototype of a new exam table can be created that is easy to use for doctors and nurses, as well as comfortable for the patients.

Creating this exam table establishes a more supportive piece of furniture for the type of healthcare provided today, more accessible for various ages and sizes of patients, is constructed of hygienic materials for increased comfort, clean-ability, and durability, and ultimately assists physicians and nurses in carrying out their jobs. In doing so the prototype hopes to create a better holistic approach to the health environment and give the patient an overall more comfortable experience at the doctor’s office.

Source: http://www.aarp.org/ health/doctors-hospitals/info-03-2012/ hospital-admissions-older-adults. html

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Geriatric Patients

Body Mass Index (BMI) of 30 or higher BMI of 40 or more is considered morbid obesity

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Weight is affected by genetics, gender, physiology, biochemistry, as well as environmental, and psychosocial factors.

BMI: What do these two have in Common?

Ages 65 and older Participation in the workforce has made them the wealthiest generation

They’re limited in mobility

A measure of an adult’s weight in relation to his or her height (kg/m2)

Bariatric Patients

A total of 3,287,500 Geriatric patients were admitted to the hospital in the past year Major target market for health, retirement housing, financial planning, and appearance Retiring at a rate of 10,000 people every 24 hours

Source: NIH, NHLBI. 1998

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Patient

Function Structure

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Arrival to Hospital

Check In

Waiting Room

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Takes car or bus Potentially with friend or family member May have special restrictions before arriving (i.e. no water or food before visit)

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Takes car or bus

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Signs in at check in counter Fills out necessary paperwork Goes to waiting room

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Sits in chair or sofa Look at phone or tablet Read a book or magazine Watch TV (if provided) Nurse calls patient and is taken to exam room

Check appointments for the day

Clocks in Check medical inventory for the day Check doctors appointments for the day

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Looks over patients medical chart Calls patient in to be examines

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En route to exam room patient gets weighed and measured Talk with nurse about current allergies and medications Potentially take off clothing Has choice to sit on exam table or guest chair

Check patients chart before going into exam Talk with patient about why they are here before starting procedure

Takes patients vitals Goes over any new allergies or medications Takes patients chart to doctors for viewing before doctor enters exam room

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Follow Up Conversation

Doctor enter and introduces themselves Patient is moved from sitting up, to laying down, and being on their side during procedure Potential discomfort when moving through the procedure

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Moves bed up and down to help examine the patient Checks breathing, heart rate, and other potential issues for visit

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Gain an understating of diagnosis Talk about options of treatment, prescriptions or wellness Change back into clothes

Gives patient diagnosis Gives medication recommendations or potential treatments Writes potential prescription for patient

Payment

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Go home or to pharmacy

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Log hours Updates patient chart Go home

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Go to check out counter Check with insurance Pay amount needed

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Checks inventory before leaving Clocks out Goes home

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Process

“Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” ~ Saint Francis of Assisi

Redact

Reduce and take Action

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Dumbottle

Solution: The Dumbottle is a weighted bottle to imitate the effects of a dumbbell while also configuring how much water a person should drink in a day with a silicone band that also acts as a hidden storage compartment for keys, identification and credit cards.

Skills Used: • Hand Rendering • 3DS Max • Adobe Photoshop

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Dumbottle

Problem: How do you perceive and visualize time; and what tools humans use to measure and mark time?

Combine storage with digital face

Like press release technology

How does dumbbell shape effect bottle form?

Precedent Studies

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Ideation

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Conceptualization

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“It’s very easy to be different. But very difficult to be better.” ~ Johnathan Ive

Final Rendering

Push/release drinking lid Water tracker and storage compartment Bottle without band

Orthographic view

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Slow, Go, Whoa Problem: Design a children’s toy that not only was easy to play with, but that also had an educational purpose.

Solution: Main focus was on nutrition and physical activity. The main concept is a life size board game, adding physical activity to the game as well as getting the children interested in learning about nutrition.

With that, the final product is an indoor/outdoor board game with an octahedron die that will give them questions about the food pyramid as well as silicon tiles that show different activities when they land on that certain tile.

Initial nutrition research

Skills Used: • Hand Rendering • InDesign • Model Making

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Go, Slow, Whoa methods

Die Ideation

3D ideation

Sewing Mock Up

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SKIP UP

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NAME A FRUIT GO

Die acts as storage system for tiles as well as an GO interactive UP learning tool.

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Slow, Whoa, Go is an interactive board game that helps children gain awareness of nutrition and activities while encouraging group participation.

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Tiles provide and activity or question to get children involved.

Game can be used both indoors and outdoors.

Dave Richter- O’Connell

Steve Davidson

IAPD 435

Fall 2012 Final product

“All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them.� ~ Walt Disney

Storage compartment for tiles

Octahedron die

Movable tiles for ease of use

Full Prototype

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Get Growing Problem: Design lighting device for a use of our choosing, Solution: This device is something that can help with growing vegetables during the winter season. In looking at research I found LED grow lights that use red UV rays to helps flowers and vegetable grow indoors.

With the actual design there needed to be a natural essence in the shape, hence the curves.

The curves also acts as a reflector for the light wands to have better dispersion.

Shape concept

Initial Concept

With the light wand they can be used within the vessel or taken out and put into other potting plants. This device will be helpful when needing fresh food year round.

Skills Used: • Hand Rendering & Sketching • Adobe Creative Suites • RHINO

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Grow light examples

Grow light examples

Planter Ideation

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3D view

Wand ideation

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Branding

3D Exploded view

“There is nothing more genuine than breaking away from the chorus to learn the sound of your own voice.� ~Po Bronson

Construction image

Light Wand and Seed Container

Final model

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Mindful Movement Yoga System Problem: Design a product that can be used to help with wounded warriors and their treatments needed.

Solution: In looking at various treatments for soldiers suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) yoga and meditation was great therapy for thir mental awareness.

With this product it is a two part system 1.) Bands that go on your wrists, knees, and head to help with the alignment of the poses.

2.) A pressure sensitive mat to help with balance.

By combining these two it creates a more independent yoga experience.

Initial Research

Skills Used: • Programming and research • InDesign • Rhino

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Headache

Ears Ringing

Altered/Loss of Consciousness

Dizziness / Double Vision

Something Not Right

Ergonomics and ideation

Wounded Warrior Project (ask to see more about this project)

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Yoga sequence with bands

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Poses in proper Alignment

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Total Poses

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Active Minutes

See Progress

Goals

Syncs to mobile device to see progress

Vibrates when user is in proper alignment

Need Help

Alignment sensor Band concept

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“Question everything generally. Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate.� ~ Jon Bon Jovi

Mat in use

Pressure sensitivity display

Motion Sensor

Colors provided Sensor dispersion

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Herman Miller Project Problem: Design a student workspace/ workstation to be installed in a design office/studio.

This allows a professional distance learner to attend virtual lectures, critiques, and classes remotely and interact with on-campus professors and students.

Solution: The abstract idea of a city to form a workstation. Where the primary space is the heart or main-street of the city, secondary space is the subway transporting ideas, and tertiary spaces are neighboring communities or utilities.

Skills Used: • Programming and research • InDesign • Group Collaboration • Rhino

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Business Enterprise

Business

Entrepot

Storehouse

Commercial Enterprise

Computer Operation

Depot

Storage

Machine Operation

Warehousing

Reposition Memory Board Memory

Reposting

Computer Memory Computer Storage Holding

Keeping Retention

Early research/ process pictures

Using Blue Sky ideation method

Spider web ideation Digital presentation slides

To see more corporate office work please ask me about my internship with Officescapes

Tasking View

Final product

Plan View

Multiple user stations

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D e s i g n D i s t r i c t Human Need ] To achieve new levels of competence and esteem through further development of creativity and problem solving skills.

Problem ] To design an adaptable workstation for a distance learner within the design profession that promotes performance, collaboration and connectivity, while emphasizing wellness, to meet the human need.

Concept ] The City and its rectilinear grid, taking its connectivity and infrastructure into consideration

Plan

Team building and final presentation

Primary Surface

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Monitor Arm

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Chair

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HEVEs

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Tackable Surfaces

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Utility Zone

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Synapse Tasking + Task Lighting

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Overhead Plane

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Display Area Drop Zone

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Display Node

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Boardmobile

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“Individual commitment to a group effort—that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” ~Vince Lombardi

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Drop Zone

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The Classroom

Primary Surface

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The skewed orientation of the primary node for education emphasizes its importance to the program

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Synapse Tasking

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Reminiscent of the synapsing of the human brain between neurons, the Primary and Secondary nodes synapse to naturally create the main tasking surface. Four feet long and nearly as deep, the large size of the surface is appropriate to the user’s design education needs. Its vertical adjustably allows for heights ranging from 30” – 40”.

HEVEs These elements serve as the structure of the workstation. As hollow 3”x3” brushed aluminum extrusions, they allow housing of power and other necessary wiring. Their repetition and orthogonal relationship to one another are reminiscent of the character of the city grid.

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Drop Zone Drop your keys, purse, jacket, and the stress of professional practice.

Drop everything but your desire to learn!

Storage Hooks Detail

Height Adjustment

Monitor Arm This double monitor system helps facilitate the many, simultaneous, computer-based functions of distance design education. The monitor arm allows the user to move the monitors near the tasking surface through both its extensive lateral freedom and telescoping abilities.

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Tackable Surfaces From presentation to inspiration, these surfaces become extremely useful to the distance learners. They also work as acoustic dampeners, further increasing the user’s sense of privacy.

Mechanics

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Magnetic Whiteboard

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Magenta Mesh

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Grey Mesh

Side #2 of Boardmobile Limbo

Main Chair Upholstery, Vertical Screening

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Task Lighting

Tackable Surfaces, Side #1

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Overhead Plane, Permeable Storage

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See attached board for material speciècations

The form is derived from a subway map. This came about as a function of its location above the tasking surface; the surface and the lighting together connect the primary and secondary nodes of the space, just as a subway might connect two city districts.

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Display Node This mobile unit provides storage and presentation of drawings. It is sure to come in handy in conjunction to the Boardmoblie in the case of a Skype design critique.

HEVEs, Structural Members of Chair Flexible Mechanics

Flexible Mechanics

Chair The chair provides both tasking and lounging orientations within a single form based on its ability to rotate upon its base as shown. The lounging position also allows engagement of a retractable headrest.

Orthographics

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Utilities

Bottom

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Utility Zone This node houses four drawers, including a èling system, a printer/ scanner, telecommunications, and a unique permeable storage system for holding drawing/rendering tools and more.

Front

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Permeable Storage

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Limbo

This removable storage option resides within the Utility Zone and is designed to be open-ended and user-deèned.

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From Task to Lounge

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Head Rest Accessible while in Lounge Position

Overhead Plane This element’s function is threefold. Primarily it enhances a sense of place and spatial ambiguity of Limbo, thereby encouraging interaction and free circulation. Secondly it provides for greater feelings of enclosure and privacy. Third, its materiality is repeated elsewhere within the space enhancing the station’s physical continuity.

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Boardmobile This multipurpose track-able surface has the freedom to be moved smoothly in the XY plane as well as rotate and telescope vertically.

The track-able surface also serves to block distractions from the view of those in video communication with the user. Furthermore, its two sides (one a tack-able surface and one a magnetic whiteboard) transform this element into a vital medium for effective communication of ideas on the part of the distance learner.

Overhead Tracking Mechanics

Display Area This pin-able matrix of surfaces is spatially extroverted. It provides for the exhibition of work or maybe user personalization of the space. It is the “billboard” of the workstation.

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Envelopes - Furniture Design Examines the interface between the human body and the ‘near environments’.

Contours, surfaces,structures, spaces, volumes, proximity, interactions, and dynamics.

Findings by Dave Richter-O’Connell

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Sensual Chair

Silhouette

Transformation

Booma Shelf Lamp

iDock

iDock Problem: Design a piece that contained something we choose within 1,000 cubic inches.

Solution: For my piece I decided to contain music and made an IPhone (4S at the time) docking station out of air dried walnut. With this project Using finger joints to accentuate the edges and lathed a speaker make it a unique piece. Other features include a charging notch to feed your charger through the docking station.

Skills Used: • Woodworking • AutoCAD • CNC Routing

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IPhone Dimensions AutoCAD design

“Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly� ~ Dalai Llama

Output for charger

Joint detail

Back view with insert for charger

Front view of docking station

Final product

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Booma Shelf Lamp Problem: Pick a design style and design three piece furniture set that could easily be taken apart in a specified UPS box. From these three designs pick one and make an actual prototype.

Solution: The Booma office set is a compilation of a roll top secretary desk, bookcase, and floor lamp shelving unit.

The floor lamp shelving unit was selected to be prototyped. The piece has CNC routed trupan shelves, laser cut acrylic shade,and easy fit locking steel tubing creates a great representation of mid century modern design for the modern era.

Skills Used: • Woodworking • AutoCAD • CNC Routing

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Inspiration and Early Form Work

Booma Office Set

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“I’m drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.” ~ Brad Pitt

Shade Detail

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Transformation Problem: Identify an historically significant piece of furniture and redesign a piece of contemporary furniture that transforms and transports the attributes and elements through time to the present.

Solution: The original piece is known as the Rohlfs Rocker designed in the American Arts & Crafts period.

In transforming this piece creating a statement through the use of the sides were key. While the original piece had Chinese symbolism for longevity, the symbol on the side represents Earth. Other aspects include the use of soft upholstery and pegged tenon pay homage to the Arts & Crafts Movement.

Skills Used: • Restoration • Research • Rhino

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Form Sketches

Original Piece

“The lounge chair is called a Chase, but it’s kind of hard to pursue when you’re sitting down.” ~ Jarod Kintz

Front View

Side View

Final Product

Top View

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“Silhouette” Massage Chair Problem: Design a piece of furniture for ourselves, basically giving use entire freedom of design.

Solution: The main goal was to have a sense of duality. I wanted to make something that can be beneficial for my friends as well as myself. In looking through precedents I wanted to create something simple, but elegant like the reading writing chair.

Thus I decided to create a massage chair that was elegant to use when giving my friends a massage, but something functional that I could use when I needed to sit and relax. Material is all mainly bent plywood except for two maple rods for structural support.

Skills Used: • Vacuum Bending • Woodworking • Painting

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SILHOUETTE massage chair Branding and precedents

Body Proportions

Ideation

Frame Proportions

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Vaccum Forming

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Early build process

“Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action.” ~David Seabury

Final product

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Sensual Chair Problem: While studying abroad in Copenhagen, Denmark, at the Danish Institute of Study Abroad where I had spent the whole summer learning about furniture design. We were to design and build our own chair that represented Scandinavian design.

Solution: My final product is made from solid maple for the frame and red paracorde for the webbing. I was inspired by a corset with the delicate weaving and a very structured frame. Bringing to life what I have named: the sensual chair.

Skills Used: • Woodworking • Model Making • Hand Drafting

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Process Photos

Intial ideation

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“Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.” ~Doug Larson

Final Product

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Katelyn Nigus Education:

Master of Interior Architecture and Product Design, Kansas State University: May 2015 Environmental Design Program, Olathe East High School, Graduated with honors: May, 2010

Experience: Intern, Officescapes January 2014-May 2014 • Rendered Images for projects using Revit 2014 and Google Sketchup 2008 • Assisted with design floorplans in AutoCAD 2013, and material selection Castle Creations, Inc. Summers of 2011 and 2012 • Product data entry for inventory control • Quality control (battery and motor tests) • Organized repair orders

913-488-2263 kat.nigus@gmail.com 12189 S. Foxridge Dr Olathe, KS, 66062

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Freelance, Summit Marketing December 2010 - January 2011 • Redeveloped images in InDesign and Photoshop • Assisted with website development Photographer, Target Portrait Studios March 2010 - August 2010 • Portrait Photographer (specializing in children) • Personalized Custom package sales • Managed schedule and customer relations

Activities and Awards:

• Interior Design Educators Council (IDEC): Presenter, New Orleans: 2014 • Study abroad: Danish Institute for Study Abroad, Furniture Design, Summer of 2014 • Women In Design Manhattan, KS Chapter (Promotions Chair): 2011-2013 (Member): Since 2011

Skills & Attributes: Interpersonal Skills:

Graphics:

InDesign

Photoshop

Illustrator

Sketching

Hand Rendering

Collaboration

Adaptable

Interests & Hobbies:

Software:

2014

Leadership

4.0

2013

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2014

Photography

Sewing

References: Michelle Hall, Graphic Design, Summit Marketing, 913-562-3424, michelehall5623@hotmail.com Dave Richter-O’Connell, Professor, Kansas State University, 785-532-5992, dave1@ksu.edu

Travel

Golf

Kayaking