Melker Molin - Portfolio 2012
CV Education
Skills
University courses in law, economics and CAD Umeå University 2012
Digital Adobe Photoshop Illustrator InDesign Premiere Alias (basic) Rhino (basic) SolidWorks (basic) Office package
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Industrial Design Umeå Institute Of Design 2008-2011 3-Dimensional form - Wood Nyckelviskskolan 2007-2008 Military service, Platoon Commander Command Control Regement Enköping 2006-2007 Other Language:
Swedish native English fluent
10 weeks Internship at AGO in Stockholm, spring 2010.
Melker Molin
Analog Model building Mockup making Wood/Metal Plaster Welding Sketch pen/pencil/marker
Contact Mail: melker.uid@gmail.com Phone: +46 7350 231 21 Address: Yttersta Vägen 20 A 178 90 Ekerö Sweden
Portfolio 2012 - Melker Molin, Umeå Institute of Design - Bachelor of Industrial Design
Content Opalum Move Degree work 2011
Hollow Phone Form project 2009
Twist Park Bench Contest V채ster책s 2009
Tetra Pak 2010
Hot Team Shovel for road workers 2010
Additional Work 2009-2011
Portfolio 2012 - Melker Molin, Ume책 Institute of Design - Bachelor of Industrial Design
“Scandinavian design is all about simple and solid elegance�
Opalum Move - Degree work 2011
Start point This project explores the behaviour we have with sound and music in our homes. Internet and digital media have changed our way of using music products, but the products have not implemented the benefits from the new way of consuming music... yet. There are several reasons why I chose the home for my project. The main factor is that the home is a place where we have time and feel secure. That, in combination with stroke research that proves how music trains and stimulates the brain in a positive way, made my choice simple. I also identified a behavior, both in myself and other people, that you have a good music system in your
living room but you can not use it when you are elsewhere in your home.
Portfolio 2012 - Melker Molin, Ume책 Institute of Design - Bachelor of Industrial Design
Findings I have had a human-centred design approach during the whole process: I analysed the behaviour and needs from the users in the home. One clear fact stands above the rest; people want to listen to music in all rooms at home. This together with my desire for innovation lead to a mobile speaker.
“I listening to music trough my computer speakers, it is to complicated to connect it to the stereo system�
Portfolio 2012 - Melker Molin, UmeĂĽ Institute of Design - Bachelor of Industrial Design
Concept
The concept is a wall-mounted speaker due to the acoustic advantage the wall gives. My collaboration partner, Opalum, is a new Swedish speaker company with cutting-edge technology. This technology make it possible to make a speaker in any shape and still have an excellent sound quality. I took inspiration from simple and clean shapes as well as the Olympic torch that inspired me to the way you carry the speaker.
Collaboration partner Portfolio 2012 - Melker Molin, Ume책 Institute of Design - Bachelor of Industrial Design
Ideation
“Embody the shape of music” I started my form development with a sketch workshop. The focus was to get inspiration of what shape people imagine music to have. I got really inspired by some sketch with active and asymmetrical shapes. I went on and explored different siluettes. The goal was to find a iconic shape that expresses music
in an attractive way
Portfolio 2012 - Melker Molin, Umeå Institute of Design - Bachelor of Industrial Design
Form development
The form development was made with mockups combined with sketches and a close dialogue with Opalum. The form became simpler and cleaner during the process, this to make the speaker blend into many different kinds of home environments.
Portfolio 2012 - Melker Molin, Ume책 Institute of Design - Bachelor of Industrial Design
Mock up “An iconic shape, with a modern expression and inspierd by Opalum’s brand values”
Portfolio 2012 - Melker Molin, Umeå Institute of Design - Bachelor of Industrial Design
Scenario
The remote can be detached
The speaker is held up by gecko imitating material
To watch a short presentation movie for the project, please visit my vimeo account:
http://vimeo.com/24323636
“An instrument of the digital music” The concept is sold to Opalum for further development within the company. Hopfully the product will be launched during
2013 The music is streamed trough DLNA
Enjoy your music wherever you want Portfolio 2012 - Melker Molin, Umeå Institute of Design - Bachelor of Industrial Design
Result Do we need more than one speaker? Instead of having a whole system for each room, I created a mobile speaker you can use with all your multimedia products. The speaker is active, which means it has a built-in amplifier. The music is streamed to the speaker using the wireless DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) system, and these together create a wireless stereo system, all in a hand-held unit. In addition, you also have a remote control covered in touchsensitive fabric so you have all your music at the tip of your finger. From this remote you can change volume, switch songs, change the source and much more. To power it all, the speaker is driven by a high capacity battery that charges through induction discretely in the dock. The shape of the speaker is reminiscent of an instrument, and will
create a benchmark for what a mobile speaker can look like in the future.
Portfolio 2012 - Melker Molin, Ume책 Institute of Design - Bachelor of Industrial Design
“Shift the impression of a wooden bench”
Twist - Competition finalist 2009
Brief Create a unique public bench and exhibit in V채ster책s over a summer. The shape is made so people will face eachother and are encouraged to speak more. The seating area leans for different seat heights and also so water will run off.
Portfolio 2012 - Melker Molin, Ume책 Institute of Design - Bachelor of Industrial Design
Result
My goal was to surprised people with a shape that they did not expect in a wooden bench. The bench was 3Dmodelled in Rhino and then milled at a wood workshop in V채ster책s.
Portfolio 2012 - Melker Molin, Ume책 Institute of Design - Bachelor of Industrial Design
“The perfect shovel should be light and heavy, short and long, stiff and flexible, all at the same time”
Hot Team - Innovative shovel and pic 2010
Brief Briefe To minimize the dangerous physical strain that follows road construction. Focus is to improve the shovel and the wedge-point digging bar ergonomics without considering the heritage of the tools. Goal The goal was to prevent the injuries workers sustained after long-time use of hand-held tools. Many of the motions cause great pain in
shoulders, back, elbows and wrists
Context The context of road construction contains a lot of stressful movements and heavy cognitive input. With this in mind, the hand held-tools cannot be an obstacle, they should be a extension of their bodies.
Portfolio 2012 - Melker Molin, Ume책 Institute of Design - Bachelor of Industrial Design
Method - Hot Team The team members consist of a core and with other members that rotate between the teams. My final team was: Malin Andersson Arash Karimi Melker Molin Tor Hauksson Jesper Målsten Hanna Olausson John Vikström
Transparency All research, conclusions and concept development are put up on the walls at each of the team’s offices. This means that all information is shared with the whole group.
Portfolio 2012 - Melker Molin, Umeå Institute of Design - Bachelor of Industrial Design
Conclusions “Our research confirmed the tatistics of overall working injuries within the industry. We also found out that it is the shovel that causes most injuries”
Concepts We made lots of working mock-ups from our concepts and tried them out with the user. There after we evaluated them with different methods to ensure the best concept would become further developed.
Portfolio 2012 - Melker Molin, Umeå Institute of Design - Bachelor of Industrial Design
Form
Portfolio 2012 - Melker Molin, Ume책 Institute of Design - Bachelor of Industrial Design
Result Power grip for heavy lifts
shock absorbing and rotating handel The space created by the shape make it possible for digging under pipes
Shovel, Our solution provides excellent posture for the user while using the shovel. The shape itself works as a big shock absorber.
The frame works like a shock absober. Here is a render over the moment in the material during impact
Portfolio 2012 - Melker Molin, Ume책 Institute of Design - Bachelor of Industrial Design
Result
Portfolio 2012 - Melker Molin, Ume책 Institute of Design - Bachelor of Industrial Design
“Create lightness in a solid product”
Hollow Phone
Method
Inspiration My inspiration for this projects comes from other products that have played with hollowness to create a function advantage.
The goal of this project was to play with our expectations in products. A phone is usually a solid shape that feels heavy unless it’s very thin. But what if the shape itself was hollow? Can the phone possess a lightness?
Portfolio 2012 - Melker Molin, UmeĂĽ Institute of Design - Bachelor of Industrial Design
Result Hollow phone moves your - the viewer’s - mind away from the
ordinary appearance of telephones at home. The light helps to indicate incoming calls, battery status etc.
Portfolio 2012 - Melker Molin, UmeĂĽ Institute of Design - Bachelor of Industrial Design
“I can barely open nor lift the big packages”
Portfolio 2012 - Melker Molin, Umeå Institute of Design - Bachelor of Industrial Design
Tetra Pak
Project Brief To create a package for liquid food with a design for all perspectives. The package should be usable for everyone between 3-100 years old. During the observation and research it became obvious that big improvement could be made on all levels of the usability.
Portfolio 2012 - Melker Molin, Ume책 Institute of Design - Bachelor of Industrial Design
Goal Utvärdering Conclusions from the user survey and observation is some focus area needed to be improved. Mainly working on the shape of the package Punkter att förbättra then it affect the size, grip and direction of the product. Also the structure of the surface -Grepp can be used for a grip improvement.
-Synskadade -Tydlighet -Riktning -Vikt
Melker Moli Unfortunately I cant show the result due to contract with Tetra Pak, I sold the project and it is under development towards production.
Portfolio 2012 - Melker Molin, Umeå Institute of Design - Bachelor of Industrial Design
“ Explore color and shape to find a design identity�
Additional work
Laser Cutter This work was done in the laser cutter at school. To the left and below are form studies I made on my own to make a two dimensional shape 3D. To the right is a sun dial that I made during an art course with the theme Time and Contrast. Below is a horse made in vector graphics and then etched in to a cardboard.
Portfolio 2012 - Melker Molin, Ume책 Institute of Design - Bachelor of Industrial Design
Laser Cutter
Portfolio 2012 - Melker Molin, Ume책 Institute of Design - Bachelor of Industrial Design
Chess Board This is a chess board I made for myself in the spring of 2010. I was inspired by simple chessboards I saw made from metal pipes. I wanted to try to make a really simple design for the chess pieces. I started with a cube, subtracting material in diffrent ways that seperate the pieces. The board itself also works as a storage compartment for the chess pieces.
Portfolio 2012 - Melker Molin, Ume책 Institute of Design - Bachelor of Industrial Design
Photography
Portfolio 2012 - Melker Molin, Ume책 Institute of Design - Bachelor of Industrial Design
Aquarelle
Contact Mail: melker.uid@gmail.com Phone: +46 7350 231 21 Address: Yttersta Vägen 20 A 178 90 EkerÜ Sweden