SAM ATKINS
SamuelAtkins
Personal Homeware
The Beotime Moment
Home Office (Online Retail)
The Evolve Desk
Research led Project
Enklare Glädje
Upcycling Project
Fired by Design Lighting
Artwork
Artwork and photography
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Education
A Levels Fine Art A Photography A* Product Design B
Currently Studying Furniture and Product Design at Nottingham Trent University
Experience Work Experience placement at a company called Interestingly Different: a furniture upcycling company that works with people with learning difficultues.
Hobbies
Music - Singing (Grade 8) I have sung in church choirs since the age of 6 Violin (Grade 5) Drum kit (Grade 4) Art and Photography
The Brief:
Personal Homeware The intended outcome of this project was to design a product that embraces: emerging technology, the way that we interact with these products and how we lead our lives.This product must be aesthetically desirable for the intended market.
The Beotime Moment The BeoTime Moment Smart Alarm Clock is a home automation system - an intelligent device which can control more than one device: for example lighting, audio, appliances (TV, radio, toaster, kettle), shower, curtains, climate control, exercise routines
Inspiration
BeoCom 1401 is an easy-to-use telephone with simple functionality.
The BeoTime Moment Alarm Clock is made from three materials: anodised aluminium, which has a crucial and defining effect on the Bang & Olufsen brand, is combined with wood (chosen from walnut, oak or beech to blend with your interior) and polycarbonate ABS plastic. The alarm clock is obviously designed to wake you up - but this clock is also designed to keep stress levels of the user to a minimum, to make the life of the user just that bit more simple and relaxed in the mornings - and to very much make the experience of waking and getting up a much more pleasant one. The clock can be programmed with your home departure and arrival times (with the ability to overrule these times if there are unexpected changes to your schedule).Your clock will then be able to power down your house and lock all doors while you are not in.
Inspiration
BeoSound Moment is an intelligent, wireless music system that integrates your music and streaming services into one.
The rectangular screen is set into aluminium outer casing. Mini-speakers are concealed in the rear section of the clock. These give high quality sound when the alarm clock is functioning as a radio/music system. Bang & Olufsen are world renowned for the quality of their speaker systems, and these mini-speakers offer excellent sound quality due to the addition of ICEpower technology developed by Bang & Olufsen for their compact range of speakers. The BeoTime Moment is beautifully made and aesthetically appealing, fitting into any home unobtrusively. The minimalist styling is typical of the highly respected Bang & Olufsen brand. It is vital to the commercial success of this product that the Bang & Olufsen brand is reflected in it’s appearance, quality and style.
The Brief:
Home office (Online Retail) With more and more people starting to work from home, designers have been designing furniture to affiliate peoples needs. I wanted to look into what the main issues with working from home are and try to come up with a concept to help prevent/solve this problem. I carried out research to investigate the difficulties and inconveniences people experience as a result of working from home. Research showed that distraction was a major issue for home workers, so I wanted to incorporate a design feature to alleviate this problem Detailed research into online furniture retailers was carried out, so that the product designed for this brief would meet the criteria of a specific chosen existing brand, using their brand style and ethics.
The EvolveDesk In the connected world, work and life are merging
Evolve Desk from Steelcase - a product artfully designed to improve the quality of life at this highly fluid intersection.
Sketching
The Evolve desk/table design has push to open, touch release drawers with ball bearing, zinc plated drawer runners. The drawers have sleek, flush fronts, without the need for knobs, giving a clean, smooth edge to the table. There are no knobs to get caught on when the table is in use for dining or as a desk.
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Reducing Distractions is Easy: This shows how the hood will be positioned when it is in its desk form; the hood will magnetically connect to the metal framework that supports the hood. The Hood creates a sheltered space that allows the user to work in privacy and not be distracted. The hood can be rolled up and stored inside the in table storage when the Table is being used for dining. Designed with Storage Sections for the Convenience of the User: The table top of the Evolve desk has a large storage section which opens using presstouch technology. There are power sockets within this storage section, as well as room to store laptops and other office equipment.
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The Brief:
Research Led Project This Project looked into redesigning certain packaging to be dual purpose.This would allow the user the opportunity to reuse the packaging as a new product. This is kinder to the environment, of benefit to the user, and also helpful especially to individuals identified as a result of an online survey conducted during this project who were confused about which materials are recyclable.They can simply re-use the packaging as a new product. However, in addition, the new product made from the packaging will also be recyclable.
Enklare Glädje New packaging for Ikea, designed to reduce the amount of wasted cardboard by transforming into new creations for children.
Right now there are over 400 million tons of paper and cardboard being manufactured worldwide. The demand for using cardboard as packaging material has made it the single largest waste product (by weight) in your rubbish and it is estimated that over 24 million tons of cardboard is discarded each year. For packaging with a secondary use concept to work, and to be truly environmentally friendly, the inks used to print the designs onto the packaging boxes must be as environmentally friendly as possible. Printing onto the cardboard packaging is going to draw on energy, water, inks and solvents (Lambert, 2015). I want my concept for this project - an Eco-design concept of creating packaging with a secondary use as a cut out and make toy - to have minimal effect on the environment. It is therefore essential that the printing method used to create the secondary product is ‘green’.
This Chart shows how this product is environmentally sustainable
Life-CycleAssessment Chart
IT’S THE SIMPLER THINGS
Introducing our new packaging, Designed to reduce the amount of wasted cardboard by transforming into new creations for children.
The packaging cut-outs are designed for different age ranges to allow children to have products that are most appropriate for their age group To appeal to children in the 2-7 year old range, the cut-out products vary from large items like play houses and cars to smaller simple animal cut-outs. Young children love getting inside boxes and using their imagination so this range of cardboard cut-outs caters well for this market. The cut-outs designed for 8-11 year olds appeal to the creative abilities of children of this age. These products are more complex in their design than those from the younger age range. These engaging cut out products offer both enjoyment and education to their audience. The 12+ range are much more complex. The difficulty levels of these models offer creative challenges to older children, stretching their making skills
Enjoy Life
Examples of the 12+ Range
The Brief:
Upcycling Project I chose to use expired fire extinguishers as my main upcycled material. I used fire extinguishers in a number of ways to create a series of lights that are aesthetically pleasing yet functional.The brief stated that the result should be of a standard that it could be displayed at the Remarkable Recycling Gala in June 2017.
FiredbyDesign Lighting Three Final Outcomes from the Upcycling Project: Retail: To be sold through Etsy, the online marketplace for unique, vintage and handmade Items. Brand: These lights are designed for my own brand ‘FiredbyDesign’ Materials: Upcycled from Fire Extinguishers and other waste materials. (The only new materials used in the manufacture were two of the wires, the light bulbs and electrical fittings).
Using an Angle Grinder remove the base section of the fire Extin- Using an Angle Grinder and a Metal file to remove any debry left guisher. Using Masking tape and a pencil to mark where the cut line from the cutting. Making sure for no sharp edges and a smooth is. Do this slowly to make sure of a clean cut. finish.
Using a drill make a large enough hole for the wire to feed through the fire extinguisher, Using the existing hole. use a smaller drill bit to start the hole and then a larger one to finish the hole off.
The initial idea was to use a glass shade. Using a drill with a diamond Whilst trying to cut the base of the glass bottle off, the bottle I redesigned the design Using matt grey spray Using black spray Using a drill cut a tipped drill bit, drill into the glass bottle to create the fixings to at- cracked. Whilst attempting to salvage the bottle the glass bottle to use a wire mesh to paint do an initial coat paint, paint the mesh series of holes along create the shade, usign on the fire extinguisher, section black. the base pf the fire tach to the glass bottle to the inside of the fire extinguisher. kept cracking, I had to change the design of this light. a metal wire to weave covering the the ends together. top section.
extinguiser to mount the mesh section.
Production Storyboard
Using the matt grey do a second coat on the fire extinguisher section.
Wire the the light fittings Connect the inline switch and all other attatchments to the together, making sure to wire, including the plug. connect the correct wires and the correct fillament.
Attatch the chain on the top Feed string into the holes on by drilling a hole throught the fire extinguisher attaching the top of the fire extin- the mesh section to itself. guisher to attach, stitch the wire (slack) to the chain.
Upcycling Fired by design (etsy)
I chose to use out of date fire extinguishers as my chosen upcycled material. After a certain amount of time (10-12 years), fire extinguishers reach a stage when they are no longer safe to be used or even refilled. They can be recycled but this is time consuming and not always nescessarily possible. Recycling of fire extinguishers requires them to be completely dismantled and different materials separated before melting down etc... Re-using the fire extinguishers in their original form as the body of a lamp saves energy, time and waste
This product came together through exploring with different materials and processes.This product is solely made from upcycled products apart from the light bulb, light fitting, screws and nuts and bolts. This light is created from an old side table. The table top sections had worn away making it impossible to use, the legs were salvaged with the intent to be used agian. I used part of the innards of the fire extinguisher to create part of this light. Within the fire extinguisher is a central tube which controls the pressure at which CO2 (the 2 should be subscript) is released. I re-used this metal tube to hold the light fitting in the correct place. I had to re-thread the pole to allow the fitting to attach.
The design is simplistic with the light appearing from the nozzle of the fire extinguisher. The only four things purchased to manufacture this upcycled fire extinguisher were the light bulb, the Inline switch and the matt grey spray paint and the light bulb fitting. The majority of this product is made from upcycled parts. The lamp shade is made of an old ikea lampshade with an interesting pattern on it made from upcycled Budweiser cans.The wire used for this light came from an old workman’s light. The wire was tested to ensure that it still functioned safely. The plug socket was from an old appliance.
It was fairly complex to manufacture and problems arose which resulted in substantial redesign and development. The original design was drawn with a glass shade made from a cider bottle with holes cut to allow for bulb changing. Unfortunately, cutting the cider bottle using a glass bottle cutting tool resulted in the bottle smashing. The design had to change during production, The design had to change during production, and an additional waste material, a piece of chicken wire, was formed into a cylinder shape to form a surround for the bulb. Overall, this design development has improved the product, making it more hard-wearing and giving it an industrial asesthetic. A novel way of ‘stitching’ the chicken wire to the fire-extinguisher was designed using drilled holes and string. The addition of the hessian electric flex used for the lamp completes the industrial/urban look.
The Brief: Artwork
Two of my passions are Art and Photography. I have completed numerous and varied art and photographic pieces. Achieving an A for Art and an A* for Photography.
Artwork and Photography Some of my artwork and photography pieces follow from recent years. I like my work to tell stories and the pieces often have deeper meanings than may have been initially seen by the observer.
This is one of my artworks Tattoos could be a mark of distinction, a sign allocating its bearer to a social class, a badge of identity or a stigma and this exhibition explored these different kinds of tattoo. This piece of artwork was made to make people think about social class, and how we perceive people by the way they look. In this piece I used two very contrasting symbols of class. The elegance of the female bust, typically associated with grandure and refined life, contrasting greatly with her tattoo covered body, tattoos being very much associated originally with the lower classes.
This is one of my artworks This piece is called ‘Overwhelmed’, I really tried to capture the emotion of being overwhelmed in this image. This is an A1 Acrylic painting with watercolour wash background.
These are a series of photographs This is a Historical A level Photography Project: merging archive photographs of Croydon with present day photos taken by me, carefully matching the original images with the modern day scenes. These images are all taken from the same position, with old and new matching perfectly. These photographs, created using Photoshop, show that despite the progress of time, many aspects of life remain the same, and that fortunately not everything changes.
SAM ATKINS
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