Selim Benhabib MA VEHICLE DESIGN
Institute of art and design
EDUCATION Royal College of Art School of Art and Design, Master of Vehicle Design - London, UK. Fall 2012 - June 2014 Pratt Institute School of Art and Design, Bachelor of Industrial Design - Graduated with highest honours and outstanding merit GPA: 3.82/ 4.0 - New York, US. Fall 2007- Spring 2011 Rhode Island School of Design, Industrial Design - Providence, US. Summer 2005
WORK EXPERIENCE
Institute of art and design
Semcon/Volvo, Design intern - Exterior - Created exterior design proposal for external clients - Gothenburg, Sweden Summer 2013 GQ Magazine/Jaguar, Freelance - Car sketch artist, for GQ magazine, website and Jaguar events - New York - Across USA. Summer 2011 - Fall 2012 Ecco Design Inc, Full time freelance designer - Product and Interaction design - New York, USA. Summer 2011 - Summer 2012 Pratt Institute, Teaching assistant for CAD classes - Tutored on Solidworks, Maya, and Alias for product design - New York, USA. Fall 2010 - Spring 2011 Can Yalman Design Constancy, Design intern - Product and Yacht design - Istanbul, Turkey. Summer 2009 Pratt Institute, Shop monitor - Monitored the safety of students and instructed on the correct use of all shop equipment - New York, USA. Fall 2009 Fırat Eryılmaz photography, photographer’s assistant - Photography studio assistant - Istanbul, Turkey. Summer 2009
AWARDS & PRESS
DIGITAL SKILLS
Visicon Design Award, Grand Prize winning team. Judging panel; Oliver Le Grice, Julian Thomson, Richard Woolley, Geert Jan Schellekens May 2013
Adobe Photoshop Sketch book pro Alias Studio Tools Maya Solid Works KeyShot Rapid prototyping Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesign After effects Processing Arduino Microsoft Office
Citroën Metro van, Honourable Mention Alex Malval - Citroën design director, Andy Cowell - Design manager co-operation projects and Lars Taubert - Tubik Designer. January 2013 MSN Autos, “5 Future Cars You May Be Driving Soon.” April 2011 v. April 2010 Pratt Institute, Foundation Merit Scholarship Competition. 1st Prize. Spring 2008 Pratt Institute President’s List. 2007-2011 Radikal Newspaper’s Radical Trends in Design Competition, 1st prize in open category for an Insulin bracelet. September 2006
INTERESTS Remote control car model construction, drawing, travelling, digital painting, photography, glass blowing, soccer, wind-surfing. selim.benhabib@network.rca.ac.uk
+44(0)7984 643068
MANUAL SKILLS Rendering Sketching 3D sketching Clay Modelling Foam Modelling Plastic working Woodworking Photography Glass blowing
LANGUAGES English (fluent), Turkish (native)
Wreck-less Every minute two fatalities occur around the world due to car accidents. For the last half century, the efforts to prevent this loss through structural safety features has shaped the automobile. Wreck-less embraces the opportunity to reshape the car as we know it, as structural safety can now be replaced by preventative active safety features. Wreck-less Is a seamless driving experience between the driver and the artificial intelligence that offers the safety of autonomy while enhancing the thrill of driving.
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Solid Sanctuary
Creating an environment with a solid, protective feel that provides space for the user to be with themselves. Life starts in a cocoon and it continues here. The combination of the two forms create a solid, sanctuary structure that blends harmoniously
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Space
Scandinavian luxury is about of having space for yourself, the sanctuary of an open road, a comfort in solitude. Being able to connect as an independent person, just you that’s freedom.
Solid Sanctuary
Creating an environment with a solid, protective feel that provides space for the user to be with themselves. Life starts in a cocoon and it continues here. The combination of the two forms create a solid, sanctuary structure that blends harmoniously
The driver is still “in charge” — they just can’t crash. Meaning: the artificial intelligence calculates all the plausible safe routes based on smart software that implements connectivity and the ability to respond to the congested, fast-paced environment better than a person can. The driver can race at extreme speeds, drift or make fast turns, whatever they want to do for fun, while Wreck-less steps in to prevent a crash whenever needed. With Wreck-less, you can have all of the fun, but the glory, that’d be the software that kicks in to make sure that no lifes are lost in the pursuit of fun — or bad driving conditions.
SFCuAt u NrD Na t e LU eI N i sAdVeI A lic , l iXgU hR t ,Y agile and fun. Instead of safety, Wreck-less is daring, instead of protective, Wreck-less is vulnerable and light weight. Wreck-less means freedom. Space
Scandinavian luxury is about of having space for yourself, the sanctuary of an open road, a comfort in solitude. Being able to connect as an independent person, just you that’s freedom.
Solid Sanctuary
Creating an environment with a solid, protective feel that provides space for the user to be with themselves. Life starts in a cocoon and it continues here. The combination of the two forms create a solid, sanctuary structure that blends harmoniously
SCANDINAVIAN
LU X U R Y
Space
Scandinavian luxury is about of having space for yourself, the sanctuary of an open road, a comfort in solitude. Being able to connect as an independent person, just you that’s freedom.
Solid Sanctuary
Creating an environment with a solid, protective feel that provides space for the user to be with themselves. Life starts in a cocoon and it continues here. The combination of the two forms create a solid, sanctuary structure that blends harmoniously
Reveals the ground passing beneath the drivers for a full immersive driving experience. Wreck-less brings back the lightness, freedom and carelessness before the era of safety implementations
Physical model from data generated in Maya
SANCTUARY SOLID
VOLVO INTERNSHIP PROJECT B SEGMENT car with a touch of Scandinavian luxury
SCANDINAVIAN
LU X U R Y
Space
Scandinavian luxury is about of having space for yourself, the sanctuary of an open road, a comfort in solitude. Being able to connect as an independent person, just you that’s freedom.
Solid Sanctuary
Creating an environment with a solid, protective feel that provides space for the user to be with themselves. Life starts in a cocoon and it continues here. The combination of the two forms create a solid, sanctuary structure that blends harmoniously
L AY E R E D V O LU M E S The inner volume is sculptural and soft provoking a comfortable surrounding for the occupants. It is wrapped by the more angular and protective volume. The inner volume sitting comfortably in the protective shell evokes a safe and serene feeling.
Protective space
The voluptuous inner volume combined with the outer volumes is about of providing the space for yourself . The sanctuary of an open road, a comfort in solitude is enhanced by sitting in a protective armour volume wrapped by the more angular and protective volume.
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FINAL PROPOSAL
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SPACE FOR THE SPACELESS GENERATION
Compact and intimate spaces created by mechanical properties that pivots around a point
A driver’s car, a place to be seen in style and see people. A place that offers the spaceless generations a space that they can own and be comfy. All this is at the centre of the pivot.
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PIVOTING DOOR
PIVOTING DOOR
PIVOTING DASH BOARD
A sof t and textile interface that enables a seamless transition.
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FINAL PROPOSAL
VOLVO P2020
A short P1800 redesign project
A redesign concept for Volvo’s first successful sports car for 2020
SEMCON
EXTERIOR DESIGN INTERNSHIP
Exterior design proposals for an external OEM client ent
Light the car Reintroducing the magic of transportation and the gift of movement. A play with light makes the inanimate turn alive and the object becomes a vehicle for emotion.
Visicon Design Award, Grand Prize winning team. Judging panel; Oliver Le Grice, Julian Thomson, Richard Woolley, Geert Jan Schellekens May 2013
Speed, weather, driving conditions and social behaviors become interactive, reflected in a hyper-responsive light show bringing out the Hyper-Reality. Frozen in time, the dance of fluid surfaces captured, balanced by the tension of the strings. It provokes when activated by the light coming from within - accentuating the drama of the form. It’s theater; it’s alive.
“Ultimate personal vehicle”
COACH MAKERS UK
Sculpture during the week, Sports car during the weekend
Selim benhabib
What used to be the norm of transportation became modern day gentleman’s sport.
A piece of sculpture during the week sports car during the weekend Influenced by what I perceive as the 20th century’s ultimate vehicle manufacturer Voisin.
Voisin has an aviation back ground and this directly effected their approach to automotive and I intent to use the same inspiration in 21st century manner.
A mono glazing stretches over a combination of volumes arrived from jet planes. Enabling light weight body and part reduction for ultimate performance and minimum maintenance.
SELIM BENHABIB MA VEHICLE DESIGN
Institute of art and design
OTHER WORK SAMPLES
PRODUCT DESIGN WORK SAMPLES
IPICK
Post office on wheels
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n end to missed package slips; a promise of hassle-free parcel delivery, every time.
Honourable Mention
Alex Malval - CitroĂŤn design director, Andy Cowell - Design manager co-operation projects and Lars Taubert - Tubik Designer. January 2013
POST OFFICE ON WHEELS D y n amic distribution syste m
Address: bob@Ipick A tall and narrow architecture enables more than one IPick vehicle to utilise a single lane. And the tall sides are used for personalised advertisement.
Switching todays pain staking delivery system to a more interactive and pleasurable experience, by using autonomous narrow vans that can pass parcels amongst each other. Where miss delivery slips don’t exists
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In t u itiv e U I F l o w The window graphic is designed to enhance 4 step intuitive posting interaction. 1) Identification 2) Video message 3) Payment 4) Send/Receive package
Personalized advertisement advertisement Based Basedon onclose-proximity close proximitydetection, detection,advertisements Advertisement update updatesaccording according to to users nearnearby. users
Inter a c t i v e t o uch sc reen An interactive touch screen that allows for seamless integration with a bump of the phone.
Personal Pe rson delivery mes s ages s Sender can record personal video or voice messages for their loved ones to enhance the experience.
DRAYSON EF1
An electrifying EF1
car that is designed for the Drayson Racing Team that will show case the electrical properties of the race.
ELECTRIFYING AND WEIGHTLESS
An Electrifying experience that will give the audiences goosebumps Skin & Bone
The race car is inspired by pterodactyl scull shape. as its light weight and flight capabilities. To have a high aerodynamic efficiency the bone structure is covered with a active skin made of an electro-active polymer.
Light weight structure Bone structure
3D printed hollow bone structure Carbon fibber, Integrated bone structure
Engine cluster integrated to Bone structure
Smart materials Electro-active polymer, Guiding for the Skin
the wind flow
Skin structure
Electro-active polymer air intake, adjusting air volume
Electrifying engine Electro-active polymer, Guiding cluster
the wind flow
Electro-active polymer air intake, adjusting air volume
FINAL PROPOSAL
JAGUAR X TYPE 2015
A study for the 2015 Xtype to attract younger buyers.
Ja g u a r
with a younger spirit Distinct volume that starts from the grill stretching all the way to the back creates surfaces that o enhances brand identity and implementing a sporty and young feeling.
MODULO 2
Modulo
Inspired by modulo a introverted sports car that look at people as the source of inspiration for future.
S PA C E R A C E A N D O P T I M I S M
Future of the 60’s The perception of the future in the 60’s was about looking out to the space. It was an era of optimism and fast growth and possibilities
Introverted Todays future revolves around compactness,Samenesses and interrelatedness. Based on these ideas the car follows an aesthetics that looks in it self with surfaces that faces each other.
Selim Benhabib MA VEHICLE DESIGN
Selim Benhabib Design portfolio Š 2014
Institute of art and design
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