Katelyn Nigus Design Portfolio

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All design begins with ... the human user

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Findings by Dave Richter-O’Connell

Elements product design

Focuses on objects, goods, services interfaces and experiences intimately connected to the human sphere

Envelopes furniture design

Examines the interface between the human body and the ‘near environments’. Contours, surfaces, structures, spaces, volumes, proximity, interactions, and dynamics.

Environments interior architecture

Encompasses the design of places and spaces addressing the health, safety welfare of human occupants as well as the psychological needs and desires of comfort, beauty, and gracious living.

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Universal Design

Lighting Design

Yoga Kit

Transformation

Textile/Seating Application

Massage Chair

DIS Study Abroad

Corporate Space Planning

Digital Media Of fice

Of ficescapes Internship

Wounded Warrior

Herman Miller Project

Toy Design

Knock Down Design

Restaurant

Timepiece

Woodshop

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Timepiece Students were assigned to consider how you perceive and visualize time; how you use time in your daily life; and what tools humans use to measure and mark time, from there we re-imagine and design a portable or wearable timekeeping device.

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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Form Sketches Original Concept

“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

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Toy Design We were assigned to design a children’s toy that not only was easy to play with, but that also had an educational purpose.

In beginning research the 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 a hectahedron 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.

Skills Used: • Hand Rendering • InDesign • Model Making

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Initial nutrition research Go, Slow, Whoa methods

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

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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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Game can be used both indoors and outdoors.

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Steve Davidson

IAPD 435

Storage compartment for tiles

Fall 2012

Final product

Hectahedron die

Moveable tiles for ease of use

Full Prototype

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Universal Design In this group project, each member of the team experienced limited mobility, vision, hearing, loss of strength and communication capabilities. Each team will document their tests and results.

This was a great collaborative effort in seeing how difficult life is being impaired. Each of us chose a certain Handicap and further research, then created a product. My area was loss of hearing as well as developing the slide show in InDesign.

Our team portraying various disabilities

Skills Used: • Hand Rendering • InDesign • Group Collaboration

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Early concept sketches

“Question everything generally thought to be obvious.” ~ Dieter Rams

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Mobile alert application

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Lighting Design For the final project of our second year we were assigned to design lighting device for a use of our choosing, With my device I wanted something that can help with growing vegetables during the winter season. In looking at research I found LED grow light that use red UV rays to help 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

Early sketches

Grow light examples

Grow light examples

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

3D view

3D Exploded view

Plan view

Final model

Construction image

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Yoga Kit In my final year we had to also design a product that can be used to help with wounded warriors and their treatments needed.

In looking at various treatments, the one that was most helpful for soldiers suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) was yoga and meditation.

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.

Skills Used: • Programming and research • InDesign • Rhino

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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

Need Help

Syncs to mobile device to see progress

Vibrates when user is in proper alignment

Alignment sensor

Band concept

“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

Motion Sensor

Pressure sensitivity display

Colors provided

Sensor dispersion

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Herman Miller Project For this group project we designed 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 oncampus professors and students.

Our final product we used 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.

Business Enterprise

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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

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

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Digital presentation slides

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

Tasking View

Final product

Plan View

Multiple user stations

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Woodshop For our Woodshop class we had three major projects we worked on; a box, lathe, and container projects. With these projects it enhances our skills in different types of machinery as well as providing creativity while doing hands on work.

In our final project we had to design a piece that contained something we choose within 1,000 cubic inches.

For my piece I decided to contain music and made an IPhone 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.

Skills Used: • Woodworking • AutoCAD • CNC Routing

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Curved piece.

Box: final product

AutoCAD design

Types of joints

Lathe: final product

CNC work

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

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Front view of docking station

AutoCAD design

Joint detail

Output for charger

Final product

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Knock Down Design

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Skills Used: • Woodworking • AutoCAD • CNC Routing

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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 and is still under production.

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In beginning graduate school our woodshop II class assigned us the knock down design project.

We were asked to pick a design style and design three piece furniture set that could easily be taken apart in a specified UPS box.

From our three design we had to pick one and make an actual prototype.

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

Booma Office Set

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Transformation Project In our History of Furniture class, we were assigned to 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.

The original piece is know as the Rohlfs Rocker designed by American Arts & Crafts furniture In transforming this piece creating a statement through the use of the sides were key. While the original piece had a Chinese symbol 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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Textiles & Seating Application The rocker on the left was something that I found in my basement that belonged to my great grandmother.

I sanded it down to a smoother surface and applied a dark stain, then I found a light fabric with pastel-like petals that I upholstered to the seat and back.

The rocker on the right was a personal project while at an internship in Denver, CO. It was serendipitous find in a vintage shop. This project was easier since I had a guide with the previous upholstery on how the piece should work. Major changes besides the fabric was sanding it down to put a new coat of paint on the frame as well as adding better padding for comfort.

Skills Used: • Restoration • Staining • Upholstery

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Original State

Staining Process

Final product

“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.� ~Vermon Law.

Original State

Forming/Restoration

Final product

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“Silhouette” Massage Chair In my final year of woodshop we were to design any piece of furniture for ourselves, basically giving use entire freedom of design.

Within original research the main goal was to have a sense of duality. Also, when looking at the piece as my own I wanted to make something that can be beneficial for my friends as well as myself. In looking through precedent 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.

Skills Used: • Vacuum Bending • Woodworking • Painting

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Early build process

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

Final product

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DIS Study Abroad In the summer of 2014 I had studied abroad in Copenhagen, Denmark, at the Danish Institute of Study Abroad where I had spent the whole summer learning about furniture design and near the end we built our own chair that represented Scandinavian design.

It was a wonderful experience that opened my eyes in experiencing new cultures as well as new approaches to furniture design.

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 stuctured frame. Bringing to life what I have named: the sensual chair.

Skills Used: • Woodworking • Model Making • Hand Drafting

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Process Photos

“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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Exhibit Design In our second year we were to design an interactive ‘near environment’ museum exhibit display as a theoretical component for a ‘phase 2’ extension of an exhibition at the Flint Hills Discovery Center in Manhattan, Kansas.

In the ‘phase 2’ portion it is slated to focus on ‘forces’ that shaped the Manhattan, KS area from 1917 to 1963.

This design focuses on Kansas State University during the 1920s. I sought out help at the Kansas State Historic Costume and Textile Museum where they prescribed a 1920s school dress (seen on the right).

These artifacts created an eye-catching design while also using minimal space.

Skills Used: • 3DS Max • InDesign • Photoshop

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Actual 1920s dress to be put in exhibit

1928 Kansas State Agricultural College map

Reproduction photos of fraternity and sorority comics on wall panels

“We do not create work. I believe we, in fact are discoverers.” ~ Glen Murcult

Campus Culture: Life at K.S.A.C During the 1920s Katelyn Nigus

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IAPD 435

Steve Davidson

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Concept: During the period 1917-1929 there is boom in Greek life, as well as a scandal about bloomer checks that made national news.

With such an attention getting decade the design showed no less. By having eye catching graphic panels and memorable interactive boards helps to transport the visitor into the 1920s as a student at K.S.A.C.

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Grapic panels provide as an attention getting device with photos from the Royal Purple during 1925-1929

Homecoming at K-State

Scandal on Campus Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 1913

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With such a major growth in Greek Affairs this board helps futher explain how K.S.A.C gained so many fraternities and soroities during that time.

The board discusses the scandal of the bloomer checks and how the dean of women set a standard of appropiateness.

The touch screen interactive allows the visitor to look at different fraternities and soroities and learn what the are about as well as looking through the Royal Purple to see brother and sisters of the past.

The Interactive provides people with expressing their opinion on the matter with adjusting the figure to what they think is appropriate, giving visitors a chance to open up about the topic of modesty.

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Restaurant This was an international student design competition presented by the Retail Design Institute. We were given a proposal for an American fare restaurant.

Along with the RFP our professor wanted us to also focus on branding and signage.

The design concept was an open floor plan creates community dining and a chance to mingle with other customers. It also showcases certain areas by using material changes to emphasize that particular area. In order to be sustainable we provide a variety of mason jar sizes to store our food.

Skills Used: • Adobe Creative Suites • 3DS Max • Revit • Auto-CAD

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Inspiration

Branding

Exterior View

Dessert bar

“I like to believe that architecture connects the present with the past and the tangible with the intangible� ~ Richard Meier

Big party seating

Entrance

Main traffic area

Open concept lounge and materials

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Corporate Space Planning For this first project of our fourth year we were asked to design an office space for an all natural pet food company. Their goals for the space were to create an inviting space for staff and guest. Ideally, spaces should be designed for the tasks performed in each department.

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Conference Room

Pure and simple Pet Food President/CEO Office

Private Offices

Server Room

The overall goal of this project was to gain awareness in work and social dynamics in the early process stages of programming.

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Accounting

Skills Used: • Adobe Creative Suites • Revit • Programming and Research

Sales

Marketing

Product Development

Production

“Good design is good business.” ~ Thomas J. Watson Jr.

View of Workstation

Reception Area View of Break Room

President/CEO Office

Administrative Assistant Stations Conference Room

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Digital Media Office In this design project we had to renovate a warehouse into a two-story office space for a digital media company.

Skills Used: • Adobe Creative Suites • Revit • Programming and Research

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Creativity

First Floor

Ply Gem Ledgestone

Manningtion Porcelain Tile

Mannington Carpet

Location Raleigh, NC

Street View

Furniture Used

Company Logo

Polished Granite

In designing the space, the creation of a natural and open space is seen in the use of very neutral colors and facade materials. With pops of color in designated spaces it enhances certain areas, providing focused area for people to work.

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Honed Granite

In choosing a location I focused on the digital aspect in finding future employees in the technology related field, Raleigh, NC was the perfect choice.

Second Floor

“Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication.” ~ Leonardo Divinci

Second Floor Work Area

Second Floor Break Room

Facade View Entrance

Workstations

War Room

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Officescapes Internship From January to May of 2014 I was in Denver, Colorado for an internship with a firm called Officescapes. The firm sells high end office furniture from manufacturers (i.e. Steelcase, Turnstone, and Knoll). I worked within the design team and helped with schematic design and material choices.

The majority of the work I had done while at this internship was renderings for clients, along with organizing materials, and being apart of design meetings and lunch and learns, gaining new knowledge of new products available from manufacturers.

Skills Used: • Photoshop • Revit • Sketch Up • CET

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Fiscal year review

Design team meeting

Company culture

“Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities.

They vary in their desires to reach their potential.� ~John Maxwell

Renderings for clients

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Wounded Warrior For our Capstone studio in my final year we had to design a rehabilitation facility for wounded warriors.

In creating this facility there was extensive research done on various ailments such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) then finding the appropriate treatments.

From the research there was a focus on anti-stigma within the facility and making it have a sense of a community center rather than a hospital.

While understanding this condition is one thing, accepting treatment is another matter for soldiers. There are other factors in soldiers wanting to seek treatment for a mental condition.

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