Hi! My name is Nile Watson and I’m a second year industrial product design student at Coventry University looking for a third year placement. I am from London, UK and have always loved design since I pulled apart my first toy. I am and self-motivated and enthusiastic person who enjoys setting an aim and working towards completing it to the best of my ability. My favourite part of the design process is taking my sketches into the modelling stage. I also enjoy working in a team environment as I feel I bring positivity and fresh ideas to the project or activity in hand. Personally, design is identifying everyday problems and solving them which intern makes life better for the user. I also enjoy making products simple so that the user has not got to worry about the way it works. This is the aim that I always work towards now and also for the future.
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Sky Hyrdo Flow Water bottle for Sky
The task was to take a well-known brand and diversify their product range into an area that they haven’t yet entered. Focus: Form, Branding and Model making ability. University - 1st Year - 5 Weeks Individual/Group - Individual
Initial sketches with added colour from Photoshop.
Twist Cap
Atheistically pleasing.
Would work, shrinking the width would make it fit comfortably within a hand.
Various ways of opening a sports bottle; Twist, Suction, Pull out.
02 The Great American Chocolate Chocoalte bar To create a chocolate bar and packaging based on a country of our own choice. Research the chosen countries to see the different cultural characteristics and select a variety of inspiration and influences. Focus: Form and packaging. University - 1st Year - 3 Weeks Group/Individual - Individual
A select few post-it notes from a brainstorm board.
Origami sketch model.
An iteration of the chocolate in white.
Final design with Final Packaging. Keyshot & Photoshop.
03 Encased forest Door Handle
To design an ergonomic door handle for either an executive suite within a hotel or a door handle for the modern home. Focus: Form, Precision, Fitting University - 1st Year - 3 Weeks Individual/Group - Individual
Ideation
This page shows the door handle in an exploded view so that the assembly of the components can be seen visually. The finish of the door handle is polished stainless steel and buffed dark walnut.
04 CAD Iron Project Wilko Steam Iron Task: To recreate a steam iron that is currently in production using the CAD software Rhino. FOCUS: Futhering my ability to use the CAD software, Rhino. University - 2nd Year - 3 Weeks Individual/Group - Individual
Process I started my recreation of the Wilko Steam Iron by first using it and taking pictures of parts of the iron that had intricate detail that I needed to remember to put in. After this hands on approach of using and photographing my Iron I began to take dimensions and draw them up into an orthographic drawing. Finally, I began to create my iron in CAD. Using screen shots and an explanations to guide anyone else reading it through my processes.
05 Clay Head Red Fox transitional form Task: To create an animal of my choices head out of clay within a week. At the end of each week being designing a new form depending on a word that we would recieved. FOCUS: Transitional forms, use of a new material, working to tight deadlines. University - 2nd Year - 5 Weeks Individual/Group - Individual
This page shows initial sketches of the Fox clay model. The form of the fox changed each week based upon a chosen word which where; Fluid, Dynamic, Architectural and Monolithic. I adopted the technique of taking pictures of my previous work and drawing over it to find the ideal the form. On the following page, you will see the fox model at the dynamic and monolithic stage.
Fluid
Dynamic
Architectural
Monolithic
05 Clay Head Red Fox transitional form Task: To create an animal of my choices head out of clay within a week. At the end of each week being designing a new form depending on a word that we would recieved. FOCUS: Transitional forms, use of a new material, working to tight deadlines. University - 2nd Year - 5 Weeks Individual/Group - Individual
Corporate Identity
Renders
This page is a collection of renders are of existing products that I have seen or copied these products vary between; street lighting, cycle helmets and the Vauxhall Adam. These renders use a range of materials such as; wax crayon, pen and pencil, markers, chalk and Canson paper.