PORTFOLIO 2014-2015 Lu Qin
Name / Lu Qin Born / 19th May, 1993 Origin / Cheng Du, China Contact / quiniiiiie@gmail.com
Industrial design learner at Chengdu University of Technology, Bachalor Year 4.
CONTENT 01
Order-desk
Furniture
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Bamboo Chair
Furniture
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Mini-moon Ice Bar
Product
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Outdoor Umbrella
Product
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Rolling Melody
Interactive
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Others
Basic Skills
01 Order-desk Furniture design course, individual work, 2015 January
Purpose Special occupation office crowd, such as architects, designers, and artists, unlike normal office workers, they need not only a clean desk for computer, but also spaces for all kinds of items, tools, and manuscripts. When items on layer of each other, it is very hard to find things and there is no space for sketching or painting, which would reduce the effeciency of work, and even hinder their divergent thinking.
Order-desk
Furniture design course, individual work, 2015 January
Target Group
Research Different desk tops of different professions
User group
Work place
architects
Home,Studio
designers
Company,home
artists
studio
Main operating
Essential items
Other items
Sex ratio
Sketching
Table Lamp, Computer,books
Foods
Male 76% Female 24ďź…
Sketching
Painting
Computer, Books, cups
Foods, Hand cream
Male 43% Female 67%
Painters, papers
Eyeglass
Male 41% Female 59%
Interior designer
Graphic designer
Illustrative designer
Graphic designer
Industrial designer
Architect
ITEMS
Design Definition 1 2 3
Main Operating Essential Items Others
A large area of the flat central desktop Different sizes, locations and flexible storage units Add some extra items placed space
Computer
Books / Note books
Drink
Light
Stationeries
Snacks
Order-desk Sketches
Furniture design course, individual work, 2015 January
Order-desk
Furniture design course, individual work, 2015 January
Demonstrations 3
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Change the combinition of sticks to fix books in different ways
Fast rising the computer up, get extra space for central area
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Lamp power line hole
Ergonomic funtion zone positions & flexible storage system
Tissue box
Flexible storage grids can adapt multiple shapes of stationaries
Recessed place prevent cup from dumping
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Convenient garbage hole 7
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Diagonal seperation to storage different sizes of books or paper
Changable storage for loose items Simple structure to fix the computer board
Remove two wooden stickers, the drawer will slowly fall down. There are slots on the partiton, you can splice any different length partition.
Order-desk
Furniture design course, individual work, 2015 January
Material & Color
Table top & legs
Connection structure
White painted wood
Fiber glass Black
Pine
Fiber glass Light gray
Black walnut
Fiber glass Dark gray
02 Bamboo Chair Redesign of traditional material, individual work, 2014 November
Purpose According to historical records, China is the earliest country that cultivated and utilized bamboo in the world, such as making books, chopsticks, paper, even houses. Especially in my hometown - Sichuan, this natural material is widely used. Bamboo is a symbol of noble, beautiful, and happiness in the eyes of Chinese, so I choose bamboo as my traditional material to redesign.
Bamboo Chair
Redesign of traditional material, individual work, 2014 November
Development of Bamboo Products
1600 B.C.
1100 B.C.
200 B.C.
126 B.C.
300 A.D.
1700 A.D.
2002 A.D.
2015 A.D.
Bamboo Chair Redesign of traditional material, individual work, 2014 November
The characteristics of bamboo
High toughness Strong elasticity Great density High flexural strength
Material study
Bamboo Chair Redesign of traditional material, individual work, 2014 November
Sketch
Metal frame fixed
Tenon connection
Rope lied connection
Metal cramp connection Cross-connection
Mockup & Prototype
Bamboo Chair Redesign of traditional material, individual work, 2014 November
Reuse for different home products
Bamboo pipes
+ Metal frame
Reuse for different chairs
Sustainability
03 Mini-Moon Casarte Design competition, 2015 May
In recent years, with the development of high technology and space technology, more and more people began to focus on the future, and to imagine the future life. Meanwhile, some film directors have also shot a lot of blockbuster science fictions. The living environment and some fancy furniture that emerged in the movie scene have triggered some fantastic interest of audience. Thus, I want to design something that will be applied in the future of the world.
Mini-Moon
Casarte Design competition, 2015 May
Life style analysis
Trend Study
Material analysis
Future product analysis
Mini-Moon
Casarte Design competition, 2015 May
Insperation
food drinks
Fictions about moon ... ... Vacuum
Cold
Round beverage
Pureness
Dry
food
Immortality
Dusty
Dark
drinks
lighten
food beverage
fruit Mini-Moon Ice Bar
Sketch
Mini-Moon
Casarte Design competition, 2015 May
This is a mini-moon shaped like ice bar
Demonstration
There are 26 independent storage spaces with different length and height, which can be used for the storage of different kinds of refrigerated drinks or fruit. Separate storage space to avoid food odor problems, and avoid a lot of cold air outflow There is a small bulb emitting faint light through the transparent cover at night
Storage spaces
Frosted glass cover
HMI size ratio
Insulation
Small bulb Refrigerator Touch Button
04 Outdoor Umbrella Mechanical design competition, individual work, 2014 Fall
Purpose Now a growing number of families are keen on outdoor sports, like beach surfing and camping. In some holidays or weekends, they tend to go to the beach or suburb by self-driving. However, there is a problem that the small outdoor equipment can be easily put into private cars, but large outdoor appliances, such as outdoor umbrella are difficult to accommodate in the car. So I designed this for easy storage and carrying of outdoor umbrella.
Outdoor Umbrella
Mechanical design competition, individual work, 2014 Fall
Story Board
Sketches
Family plans to go to beach in the weekend. Most of the luggage can be put inside the car, but the outdoor umbrella is too long to fit...
At the beach, the only choice is to rent a sun umbrella, but there was already too many people waiting up, and the price is unreasonably high.
Finally, when you have a sun umbrella for a couple hours, the shadow changes along with the sun, and you end up exposed under the sun again.
Thinking: Is there a convenient portable folding sun umbrella?
Outdoor Umbrella
Mechanical design competition, individual work, 2014 Fall
Demonstrations
Panel
Can be detached from the umbrella stand
Ribs Pole
Length adjustable
Shell
Hollow in side for storing umbrella parts
Switch button
Press to extend internal rib, and release to fix the rib
Screws
Rotation can fix or separate upper and lower parts
Fitting
Connection support base bracket
Base bracket
Non-slip point
Outdoor Umbrella
Mechanical design competition, individual work, 2014 Fall
C ove r s p l ays a r o l e i n closed storage time
The ribs and basic brackets can be shrunk or collapsed
Upper and lower portions fixed by rotating
Two assembly modules make it very easy to storage and install
Base bracket can be easily separated or gathered
Outdoor Umbrella
Mechanical design competition, individual work, 2014 Fall
05 Rolling Melody Individual work, 2015 December
Purpose It has become a common phenomenon for most parents to supervise their children’s tooth brushing, especially some parents who has very young children. For those young chidren who like candy, they have no awareness to protect their oral health. So brushing tooth is an extremely passive and unpleasant process for them. I want to combine the traditional children's electric toothbrush with certain sensor, to increase kids brushing fun. Under such circumstance, children will like brushing and can keep oral health at the same time.
Rolling Melody Research & Analysis
Individual work, 2015 December
Rolling Melody
Individual work, 2015 December
Concept & Story
Design Discription Play interesting battle music while children brushing their teeth After finishing one area of teeth, the music stops, meaning monsters are killed in this area. The music continues when the toothbrush moves to another area
Electric toothbrush
A group of little monsters from a distant planet attacked the Earth. Though tiny they are, they are invisible to the naked eye and have strong destructive power and ability to regenerate. They especially like children’s mouth, which are warm, moist and dark. More importantly, a lot of food, candy, cookies, and drinks there are their favorites. So, they live down there. They do whatever they want there, evil, destruction, burrowing in the teeth. Fortunately, they also have natural enemy; it is toothpaste. Every time brushing will destroy many small monster. However, for their strong vitalities, the can always survive and thrive in a period of time after brushing. Therefore, the children and these little monsters launched a sustained battle‌
Brushing teeth become an interesting game
When children brush all their teeth, they get reward feedback
Function Design Different people brush their theeth in different orders, but no mater how, they will go through the 4 main parts of teeth, as the illustration above.
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A ball at the bottom of the toothbrush will be able to sense the position of tooth brush, so that it can trace the user whether they brush all their teeth or not, and memorize the time of each position.
Rolling Melody
Individual work, 2015 December
Sketches
Inductive Gravity Ball When the user brush teeth in different areas, the ball falls triggered simultaneously in different areas of different music, to detect the brushing process complete or not.
Rolling Melody
Individual work, 2015 December
Take turns to brush teeth of four areas
When the ball rolls to the corresponding area, the music sounded
Changable, soft children friendly brush head
After 30 seconds, the first piece of music will end, which means to brush the next area
If children continue to brush their teeth in the same area or has been brushed, the music will not sound again.
Comfortable ergonomic shapes
After brushing turn four areas, the total length of two minutes of music playback ends.
It will play "congratulations" sound to prompt the children that they have destroyed the little monsters in the mouth.
Lastly, put the toothbrush back into the charging base, the number of little monsters on the screen is cleared.
Trun on the power, prepare to brush teeth
Sensor ball senses the position of toothbrush Charging stand and record screen
06 Basic skills Individual work, 2014—2015
THANKS.