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01 YACHT CHAIR This is a personal project to create a modern and contemporary piece of furniture constructed from an injection moulded shell. This premium lounge chair, named The Balance, is specifically designed for premium yachts. Influenced by biomimicry and the ships moulded hull, its ergonomic shell provides the utmost of comfort.
Here is a selection of sketches, depicting the journey of designing the Balance lounge chair - from the initial thumbnail sketch to refined digital drawings. My primary design intent was to portray a feeling of weightlessness and comfort.
This idea of weightlessness developed further and included a physical motion of weightlessness rather than just metaphorically (shown next Page). In addition to the biomimicry of a whales tail, I was inspired by Hans J. Wegner’s CH07 Shell chair.
When not in use, the weighted base rocks the lounge chair upright with a gentle push, appearing weightless to the user. In its upright position, the chair’s sculptural form becomes a contemporary piece of art. Inspired by a breaching Whale’s tail, the Balance grabs the attention of guests, sparks conversation and adds dynamic interaction to the user-experience. When standing, the Balance consumes very little space. Thus, providing a more comfortable and spacious area.
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ASSISTIVE HANDWARE
Interactive technologies are an essential element in almost every activity of our modern lives - being woven in to the majority of everyday products. Hence, it is vital for designers to have a good understanding of how electronics are integrated in to our future designs. In this module, we advanced our Arduino skills by manipulating micro-controllers and sensor driven interactions. In our group, we developed an assistive electronic glove, designed to aid disabled/elderly users. (Specificity recovering stroke victims - suffering from paresis)
There is 1 stroke in the uk every 5 minutes.
Only 1 in 10 patients recover completely
A third of Stroke survivors experience depression after their stroke.
The control interface is composed of a potentiometer and a push-button switch. This combination allows the user to adjust the power
A fading LED is used to inform the user whether the glove is switched on and indicate the servos current setting
The embedded pressure sensors in the fore and middle finger detects when the user has touched a surface they wish to grip. These activate and control the strength of the servo motors to close the fingers and the thumb.
There are two servo motors in the strap of the glove which controls variations between a pinch grip and a hammer grip. To provide this pulling power, pathways are sewn beneath the fabric for a cord to be attached from the servo to the finger tips.
T H E E DWA
A part of EONE’s Bradley Watch family
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HGV Driver (retired)
MARITAL STATUS
Single
LOCATION
Yorkshire
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BLUETOOTH SPEAKER The brief of this project was to design a music speaker with a very specific styling direction. The theme I chose was 1930’s streamlined. This project was concentrating on the form of the speaker and how to capture the design characteristics of our selected style. However, we also needed to be mindful of how the internal components would fit inside the speaker.
By the 1930’s the fundamentals of aerodynamics were widely recognized by designers. This lead to a great advancements made in the automotive industry. However, perhaps more important than the performance upgrade was the resultant aesthetic improvements. Designers now wanted their designs to look fast and exotic with tear drop lights and long sweeping lines.
I wanted to encapsulate these long accelerating lines in to the side-profile of my design. I drew further inspiration from the hood ornaments. I would say these are the definition and pinnacle of 1930’s streamlined.
Foam modelling is a great method to quickly get a physical representation of an idea or feel for a shape. Without modelling, it is impossible to have a complete image of how your product feels and how it interacts with the user in it’s environment.
Here, my engineering drawings also dimension the stock internal components and how it would be assembled. It is important for a designer to know that their design is feasible rather than just an aesthetic form.
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HENRY WIDGET The brief was to design a small promotional plastic widget, for a selected brand, suitable for injection moulding. After individually designing the product and mould tool, we then worked collaboratively in groups to manufacture the injection mould tool. My widget design is a cable management desk tidy which rolls up excessively long wires and cleans your working space.
DEVELOPMENT
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1. Developing and finalising
2. Milling the aluminium mould halves and 3. Using the lathe to fabricate pins and steel inserts to size
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4. Surface grinding the inserts so they fit in
5. Using HSM works and programming
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comprehensive engineering drawings.
the mould with less than 0.025mm of a gap.
the CNC machine to reproduce my CAD model.
program on blue foam before cutting our final mould halves out of aluminium.
7. Plastic analysis
8. Final Widget
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DESIGN WEEK Within one very intense week, we had to design a collapsible home-ware product for student accommodation. An important part of this brief was to create a visually beautiful aesthetic as well as a functional design. This design must also be constructed predominately from PP and include live hinges; enabling compact storage. This design challenge gave us the opportunity to experience: a real life brief, working under tight deadlines and getting a glimpse in to the professional design industry.
THE PROBLEM
“I never seem to have enough room for all the clothes in my wardrobe. I usually have to hang my t-shirts inside shirts which is a pain� Students are often forced to live in very small living accommodations. W hether on or off campus, living successfully in a small space means staying mindful of the physical objects you choose to live with. One area in which the design of our space often fails is our overfilling wardrobes. As students, the number clothes often exceeds the available space. Hence, I wanted to develop a clothes hanger which will enhance the usable space in a wardrobe.
SPLINTER
The Splinter solves this problem by adapting to the users needs. The hanger can expand, depending on the amount of storage required. The vertical space in a wardrobe is rarely taken advantage of. Therefore, the Splinter hanger aims to dramatically increase the amount of usable space, while also having the ability to easily collapse to its original shape.
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ARTWORK I have always had a passion for anything I could express my creativity in. Since school, Art has always captivated me in one way or another. From small doodles on the edge of my worksheet to large expressive murals, I try to capture some beauty in everything I create. In my spare time, I have spent a lot of time developing my painting and drawing skills through the sale of multiple paid commissions. Here are a selection of my personal favourites from A-levels and these commissions.
07 ONGOING IOT PROJECT This is a current project in which I am developing a future IOT tattoo gun concept. The Gun has a metal screening scanner which scans the tattoo and releases this pattern on to a cloud network. The tattoo can then be used by the user as personal identification for tasks such as: making payments, accessing your home/car, replacing passport etc.
MODELING
Here is a collection of early user-testing prototypes by using a combination of foam, cardboard and clay. When initially sketching the form of the tattoo gun, it was impossible to get a tangible sense of scale and how the design feels in the hand. Hence, this form of prototyping is especially useful when creating hand held products. Making multiple iterations meant I could easily make fine adjustments until the shape was finalised.
ABOUT ME
Thanks for looking through my portfolio. My name is Lloyd and I am an aspiring designer currently in my second year of Industrial Design (BA) at Loughborough University. I have an appetite for creating innovative and practical solutions to projects. Currently, I am searching for a 6 or 12 months industrial design placement. I can’t wait to jump in to the professional design world and improve my skills. I understand that the industry is constantly evolving and so I want to learn as much as I can as fast as I can. When I am not designing, I love cooking and have recently started a food blog where I enjoy experimenting with presentation and flavours. I also have a passion for motorcyles. I am currently restoring my Honda CB125 which has been a great learning curve and lots of fun.
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