eisenhower . design
A passion for both furniture and industrial design, devoted to seeing the project through to completion. Design experience through work at Bray Design Upholstery, Inside Out Contracts and on live university briefs for companies including Nestle. Work experience on industry level projects including adapting to the needs of the client. Experience in pitching to the design industry and creating high quality finished pieces as a part of these projects. A keen sportsman, player of American Football, and member of the Design Society.
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01. Multi-use Stool
02. Nordic Barstools
03. Stafford Sofa Bed
04. Nest Brand Extension
05. Irish Pub Chair
06 Degree Show
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01. Multi-Use Stool The Brief: Design a stool for home use to boost productivity through the inclusion of storage used for miscellaneous items, carried either by hand or in pockets e.g., wallet, phone, keys, newspaper, books etc.,
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The Project: Aim: design a high-end, multi-functional piece of seating incorporating the key element of functionality with a mobile and simple design.
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Target Market
Target market:Aimed aimed for use in the home environment. Middleat a home environment. Middle class Family, living in a detached/semi class family, with children, living in a detached or semi-detached detached house with multiple kids and a garage. Up market design - John Lewis, M&S, Made.com, home with garage. Up-market design: John Lewis, M&S, Made. Kath Kidston. com, Kath Kidston. Project development Moodboard
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Metal crossing frame, wood seat detail, raised curved wooden storage
Mood board - Metal crossing frame, wood seat detail, raised curved wooden storage
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Phone and key storage: pockets full of small but essential items can be uncomfortable when seated. Creating built-in seat storage helps overcome this problem.
Project Initial Market Analysis Price - High
Area of design focus
Form / Simple Function Focused
MultiFunction Focused
Market research determined a gap in the market for high-priced, multifunction furniture.
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Development
Development
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Development: illustrating form and potential frames. Concepts also show different storage solutions.
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Finalizing the finishes of the design using some material samples of beech, steel tube and faux leather. The final manufacture specification needed to be confirmed with the Finalising the design’s finish with factory to ensure the bends of the material samples of beech, steel tube, tube and the frame assembly and faux leather. were possible. The final specification was confirmed with the factory, prior to manufacture, to ensure tube shape and frame assembly were possible.
The design is made to be used in any The design is intended to be used in any orientation with the shelforientation, and pouchwith on the shelf and storage any side for right/left handed users pouch on eitheror side for left or right-handed with the shelf as a backrest forwith when users, or the shelf as a backrest when using for the stool for longer periods. the stool needs to be used longer periods.
The final designThe final design: a simple, low stool A simple low stool with seat leather with leather and beech and frame. frame. The design seat metal and metal Thefeatures designa pouchafor storage essential small features pouch forof storage and items e.g., keys, phone, tablet, book, a arm shelf/backrest to hold and an armrest/shelf used also as a other items. backrest if needed.
Side and front views showing a snapshot of the Rhino design, used for technical drawings.
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The arm is designed specifically to be used as a shelf for items frequently carried by the user, e.g., phone, keys, coffee, drink, or book. User feedback prompted adjustment of the arm to feature padding, so enabling use as a back support when the stool is rotated.
The frame is designed to incorporate the added stability required for the stool legs, without sacrificing the design’s effectiveness. The seat is designed with the comfort of the user a priority, with curved edges to the beech wood seat, and the seat pad inset from the edge to add depth.
The storage pouch is designed to mimic a trouser pocket, so alleviating discomfort for the user when having to adjust position to reach into a back pocket. The pouch is attached to the underside of the seat with poppers and can easily be removed and reattached to any of the three different sides for versatility.
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Final stool: User testing revealed that the most common use for the stool would be as additional seating for any room in the home, neatly stored against a wall or in the corner when not in use.
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02. Nordic Barstools The Brief: Design a range of bespoke barstools for the Villa Copenhagen hotel. The barstools will be features in the restaurant / dining areas and must be made to blend in with the Nordic interior.
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The Project: Aim: design minimal and clean barstools to blend with the hotel’s interior where each area has its own individual style, so necessitating a subtely different design style.
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Villa Copenhagen is a new, luxury hotel located next to Copenhagen’s central station, inside a refurbished historic building. Featuring 390 rooms, a range of event spaces and a number of fine dining venues, the hotel focuses on sustainability with an eco-swim pool and rooftop herb garden.
The three barstools are designed for use in the hotel’s various dining areas. The larger two are intented for the bar areas, situated within two different dining rooms and the lower one, for dining height in the central bar area.
Barstool front views showing a snapshot of the Rhino design, used for technical drawings.
The shells of the barstools were bespoke-manufactured by our workshop in Portugal. The base for the left stool was bespokemanufactured in England, and the other two bases, pre made in Italy.
This project was part of my placement at Inside Out Contracts in collaboration with interior designers Goddard Littlefair.
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The finished product on location in Copenhagen and located in different dining areas of the Villa Copenhagen Hotel.
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03. Stafford Hotel Sofa bed The Brief: Design a bespoke sofa with the capacity to fit a single sofa bed for the Stafford Hotel London. The design must be made to fit with the class, style and grandeur of the hotel.
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The Project: Aim: Sofa beds are constrained by the specific frame and dimensions necessary for their functionality. The final piece incorporates a mechanism that works within these constraints to feel like a part of the sofa’s design.
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Located in London’s Mayfair, next to St. James Park and Buckingham Palace, the luxury, 5-star Stafford Hotel features elegant and grand interior design with luxury fabrics and furniture throughout.
Sofa bed side and front views: a snapshot of the Rhino design used for technical drawings.
The sofa bed was designed with an elegant, wooden frame and wide, comfortable arm rests, used to hide the sofa bed mechanism.
To remain in keeping with the hotel’s elegant style, the sofa bed was designed using dark walnut stained wood and upholstered in a navy and gold patterned William Morris fabric to the back with a contrasting, plain, soft, navy velvet on the inside. The sofa bed was designed in three different colour variants for use in differently designed hotel rooms.
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This project was part of my placement at Inside Out Contracts in collaboration with interior designers Rosendale Design.
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The final sofa bed design in-situ in one of Villa Copenhagen’s luxury rooms. This blue velvet and William Morris fabric version blends seamlessly with the room’s aesthetic.
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04. Nest Brand Extension The Brief: Through focussed primary and secondary research your task is to design and develop an innovative, complementary product / products for Nest. Consideration of new consumer behaviours, potential markets and brand impact is essential.
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The Project: Aim: expand nest’s existing customer base by working on enhancements to their existing product range. Solution: to help build the end user’s comfort when away from home.
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Nest product range: designed for the“smart home sector,” Nest’s products include smart thermostats, a range of security cameras, a smart doorbell and smoke detectors.
How Nest portrays themselves “Our mission at Nest is to create a more thoughtful home, one that takes care of the people inside it and with world around it we combine, simple beautiful and delightful hardware, software and services to solve important problems.”
Nest target market: Families, modern, tech-savvy, middle-upper-middle class, pet owners, John Lewis customers. Hobbies: cycling, hiking, gardening.
Brand qualitiesComfort. Safety. Warmth. Connected. Controlled. Secure. Simple. Modern. Advanced.
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Development looking at form (spelling) and ways to integrate the bed with existing nest devices/technology.
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Foam Netting
Thick Foam Rim
Foam Base
Pressure Sensor
Spray Nozzles
Soft Rubber Base
The bed is designed for maximum comfort. The use of soft materials, the pressure sensor and smell nozzles ensure the pet’s comfort. By using the nest ‘Aware System,’ the bed is designed to work even when the user is away from home.
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05. Irish Pub Chair The Brief: Design a relaxed, comfortable lounge chair for the Paris gastro pub, Pub St Germain. The chair must blend with the rugged pub aesthetic.
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The Project: Pub atmospheres do not always go hand in hand with luxury. My design aimed to create a pub style feel with mixes of materials and forms without sacrificing quality.
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Pub St Germain, is a new gastro pub in Paris located close to the Notre-Dame Cathedral. The interior is a mix of rugged pub furniture and high end dining.
Designed to fit the pub’s atmosphere, the lounge chair is comfortable with lower back legs to lend a relaxed feel
The outside back and sides of the chair are upholstered in a light, taupe leather with a contrasting bright orange velvet to the inside. The chair is finished with a mixture of both strip and individual antique brass studing.
This project was part of my placement at Inside Out Contracts.
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The design includes seam detail between the taupe leather and orange velvet with a balance between brass single studding and strip studding around the chair’s back.
The final design was made to three different scales, from a small tub chair to large lounge chair. The client chose the medium lounge chair for this project.
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Produced by our workshop on site in Paris, the medium lounge chair is shown in-situ in Pub St Germain’s pool table room. Others are used in the pub’s lounge area and side rooms.
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06. NTUDI Degree Show The Brief: Develop and curate a virtual space to show the work of the 2021 final year product design graduates by building and improving on the techniques used in the 2020 show. .
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The Project: Aim: A group project, made up of NTUDI volunteers, tasked with creating an open space to show the work of the graduating class in an equitable way. The project also aims to create a beautiful and unique viewing experience for the visitor.
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Mood board - Dreamy curved rooms, light colours, cloudy sunset views, rounded windows, translucent room dividers and bumpy wall details. Colours - Light pinks, oranges, yellows and whites
Branding design: some of the NTUDI team were tasked with brand development. The final brand guidelines included colour, logos and font requirements and were used to influence the shows design and feel.
With over 200 products to display in 11 rooms, the project involved extensive forward planning by the team. Rooms were designed thematically to show work grouped next to similar projects and to ensure that each individual’s work was easy to find.
This voluntary project was completed as part of the 2021 university degree show “NTUDI.”
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Done entirely in KeyShot to keep student’s design and texturing in place, each project was laid out in the room using carpet or plinths.To overcome the difficulties that this posed, KeyShot was run in performance mode and navigated with geometry view.
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Final images of the show, highlighting living room, kitchen and office room layouts. As part of a larger layout consisting of eleven rooms created by the wider team, these three were predominately my own creation.
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