2016 Portfolio Jon Sommarstrรถm
Hi! My name is Jon, I’m a 26 year old design student at Umeå Institute of design. In this Portfolio I’m displaying a selection of work that I have done during my studies in Umeå. Have a nice read! //Jon
Manali to Leh highway No3, Ladakh India 2013.
What I do besides design
Content
Ember
Varm
Paramedics project
Digital shower
Trq drive
H’air
Product analysis
BFA thesis
CHA CHA
Glance
Sound design
Misc projects
EMBER
Assisting treatment of hypothermic patients.
Paramedics project 2016, 10 week Term project Collaboration V채sterbottens landsting, Design feedback from Laerdal Medical Project description: Follow the paramedics at the ambulance station in Ume책, Interview, observe and find a design opportunity with in the pre-hospital care.
Field research The research was done at Ume책 ambulance station. We got a walk through of the ambulances, the equipment they carry and how they use it. We also got to try different kinds of techniques they use for moving an stabilizing patients. A part from being at the station we also went out on real calls. In total as a group we did 28 individual call outs of various kind.
Test equipment
Equipment overview
Learn techniques
Out on calls
Hypothermia During interviews hypothermia was mention as a recurring problem frequently faced by the paramedics in the prehospital care.
Absorbing medicine slower
Patient is uncomfortable and anxious
Decreased blood coagulation
Project goal Provide paramedics with a tool that helps treat hypothermic patients, that is easy to apply without obstructing other treatments.
“40-60% of trauma patients develop hypothermia�
Equipment The only product they have that can induce some warmth to the body is the warm IV. But it is rarely above 37째 degrees Celsius when it enters the body. Except the equipment below, blankets are an important tool to isolate the patients body.
Scissors
Oxygen
Warm IV
Scoop board
Design opportunity Current hypothermia treatment involve administering oxygen. When the oxygen comes out of the tube it is fairly cold but adjusts slightly to the surrounding temperature. The result is that the patient breaths in oxygen with a temperature close to the outside temperature and breaths out carbon-dioxide that has the same temperature as the body. This ends up in an increased heat loss for the patient.
Breathing in cold oxygen, Breathing out warm carbon dioxide.
Ideation Sketching possible ways of warming and humidifying oxygen. Looking for a solution that would fit within current standards of oxygen equipment and the possibility to retrofit.
Mock-ups
3D printed mock, testing the attachment straps.
Trying out to breath warm oxygen.
Simple mock-ups to check size.
Mock up of trauma mask with heat unit.
Sketch development Sketching ideas of how it would work technically along with how it should look like to be easy to maintain and use, made the shape purely functional. It can’t be used in the wrong way, cause there are no wrong ways. This should be demanded from products used by paramedics in an environment where seconds could be a matter of life and death.
Key sketch
Refinement / Feedback The sketch was translated into foam and taken to Ume책 ambulance station for evaluation and discussion. Paramedic Peter Johansson was happy with the design and function, he wished for it to have a signal color since small equipment easily get lost.
Back in the workshop
Double sided milling in Roland CNC .
Sanding to insanity
Tweaking pulsing leds.
EMBER
Warm and humidified oxygen out
Re-chargeable unit One time use cartridge Heat wire
Snaps in place Battery
Status led
Foam keeps the water in place
Contact surface
How it works Ember consists of two parts. The reusable battery pack and the one time use water and heater cartridge.
Oxygen in
Scenario 1. The hypothermic patient is wrapped in blankets and stabilized on a stretcher.
4. One time use water and heater cartridge is attached to tube.
2. Oxygen mask is taken out of packaged and prepared.
5. Battery unit is connected and starts automatically.
3. Oxygen mask is attached.
6. Patient is now recovering while breathing warm oxygen.
Final presentation
EMBER Assisting treatment of hypothermic patients. Ember warms and humidify oxygen, is easy to use and has a compact format. Warming hyporthermic patients is an important part of patient treatment and reduction of further complications in the pre-hospital care. Reflections: With only three weeks left in the project i decided to change the format of the product from a new type of mask to an attachment for existing masks. If I had worked longer in the ideation phase and refined the concepts more before deciding to continue with one, this could possibly have been avoided.
Torqe drive Product analysis 2016, 4 week Parametric modeling Solidworks Project description: Dissect a screwdriver and analyze the construction. Choose a brand and design a new enclosure for the screwdrivers components with production techniques in mind.
Brand analysis SECO is one of the biggest manufacturers of carbide inserts in the world. The company was founded 1932 in Fagersta, Sweden. Today they are owned by Sandviken AB. While working as a CNC-operator I wished there was a power tool with the very specific task to fasten and unfasten carbide inserts, it can be tedious work and hard to know how much you should tighten the screws.
Time tracking We were asked to track our time for the design part of the project, with a goal of having a key sketch after 17 hours. Below is a rough estimate how I spent my 17 hours.
Brand analysis
Sketch
Foam test
Key sketch
3h
10h
14h
17h
Sketch process
Foam prototyping
CAD modeling The screwdriver was made in Solidworks, with the limitations of plastic injection molding in mind. The final design consists of six plastic parts hold together with four screws.
TORX SELECTOR
0,6Nm
Torq drive
Turn right
Turn left
0,9Nm
1,2Nm
2,0Nm
3,0Nm
Model making
Torq drive Simplified change of carbide inserts. Torq drive is a small hand held electrical screwdriver with five fixed momentum options. It is important to tighten the carbide insert with the right momentum to keep tolerances and reduce risk of damaging the screw which can result in downtime for the milling machine. Reflections: It was interesting to track the time during the design phase and it forced me to be conscious about how I developed my design and the decisions I made.
Watch the process :)
CHA CHA Sound and light design 2016, 2 week Group project Electronics, Interaction Project introduction: Dancing is universal. While some people are confident, others find it awkward. So how can we remove this fear or insecurity and encourage more people to dance?
Group members: Akansha Aggarwal Eduardo Roxius James Skeggs Jon Sommarstrรถm
Prototyping
Making prototypes.
Realizing that a 100ms delay is ages.
Testing knee bending feedback generator.
CHA CHA Let’s dance CHA CHA is a training device that assists beginners through the learning process of dancing. It breaks down the music of any selected song into simple beats and translates the user’s body movements into live visual and audio feedback. Reflections: Due to the length of the project we started straight away to prototype and test, this was a good way of coming up with ideas and at the same time evaluating them.
VARM Digital Shower 2015, 4 week Form/Interaction project Collaboration FM Matsson Mora Group. Project description: Explore the possibilities on how a digital shower could enhance or change the showering experience.
Project target Decrease energy consumption, keep experience. Lack of water is not common in Scandinavia and we are used to spoil ourselves with long and hot showers, especially in winter time. The original reason of having a shower is deluded by recreational matters. I wanted to look into how a shower could be designed with that in mind. Starting out by looking into the current shower situation and working out a solution, with the intentions of a saving water and energy, without reducing the users experience.
Development The concept I choose to develop features a infra panel that automatically starts when the users steps into the shower. The form development was done i three stages. Initially sketching form ideas, refine in clay and finally translate into foam.
Concept
Exploration
Clay
Foam
Scenario The Varm concept features a infra panel that switches on when movement is detected. The panel radiates heat and keeps the user warm without having the water running. When the user turns on the water the panel decreases in strength.
Motion sensor detects user and starts Infra-panel.
When the water is running the panel is decreased in strength.
When water is stopped the panel goes back on.
Keeping the user warm while drying up.
Varm
Infra element Water in Water out
Processor box
Infra panel
Details I wanted to keep the traditional style of a FM Matsson mixer but show that it is not like the old ones. The center is carved out leaving the volume where the valves would have been empty, indicating that this mixer is different from the traditional.
Varm The Varm shower allows the users to save water and energy without changing their showering habits. Reflections Since it was mainly a form project I did not make a CAD model until after the project was over. The reason for this was to not let the CAD software influences the design of the object. It pushed me to be more advanced in both creating the shape and later translating it into CAD.
H’air BFA Thesis 2015, 10weeks BFA thesis Collaboration Frisörföretagarna Users Art by wixners and KällbergElmberg Project description: Look into the work environment of hairdressers with focus on the chemicals they handle.
Problem Professional hairdressers daily handle chemicals that are dangerous to their health. The chemicals are used for dyeing, bleaching and perming hair. In recent years it has become more popular then ever to change hair color, resulting in higher exposure to chemicals for the hairdressers. The focus in this project has been on the airborne particles and fumes emitted from hair products.
Fumes from hair products can cause a range of serious illnesses!
Current workflow When dying, perming or bleaching the hairdresser move between three different workspaces, mixing the products at one place, applying them in the hairdressers chair and finally rinsing the customers hair in the shampoo sink. Some saloons have proper ventilation at the mixing area, but few has at all three spots, allowing fumes to sneak out in the saloon.
Mix products
Move to costumer
Apply
Wait
Rinse
Workshop The workshop participants was divided in teams of two. They were asked to make collages that described their experiences from going to the hairdressers. The second part of the workshop was to ideate about how to protect yourself from hazardous fumes. The collages was used as inspiration and kept in mind when giving the concept it form.
Concept Currently the hairdresser and customer are moving between three different workspaces. In the H’air concept these spaces are made into one. In this workspace all the tasks are performed under a ventilation unit. This gives the hairdresser a safer work environment and the customer a more pleasant experience and at the same time a far less expensive unit, rather then installing three separate ventilation units.
All tasks done under a ventilation duct.
3D Print scale scenario In order to communicate my idea to my users, I made a scale model of the concept. It was a useful tool to make sure they understood the concept. This gave me useful insights about what they were missing and how they would use it in their saloons. It was also to great help understanding certain dimensions and pivot centers.
Mix
Apply
Cut
Rinse
Mixing the hair products.
Apply the product on the costumer.
When not using the sink it serves as a side table.
Washing out the hair product remains.
Sketching
Key sketch
It was clear from the first interview with the hairdressers that the aesthetics of the final product would be important. Since the product has two users, the hairdresser and the costumer I tried to combine their different needs in the same shape. It has round and inviting shape where the costumer lays his head and more defined where the hairdresser operates.
Full scale model making After working with the scale model and in CAD I decided to make a full scale model as a final one. Having a reference manikin along in rhino while doing the CAD helped a lot and the full scale model turned out nice.
Exhibition
H’AIR The H’air concept provides a workspace were hairdressers can perform all tasks regarding dying, bleaching and perming hair without inhaling dangerous fumes emitted from the products they use. Reflections: There are ventilation units on the market witch could be fitted in saloons, but not many do. In discussion with my users I realized how important the aesthetics in their saloons are and how they use it to attract customers.
GPS Mount 2012, 1 week Personal project Solidworks, CNC milling I could not find an Iphone mount to put on my motorbike that had the looks to match an adventure bike, so I made one. Designed in Solidworks and CNC milled in plastic and aluminum. Have used it for 8000km and the phone sits like a rock even on rugged roads.
Boxtram 30 2014, 50h (excluding CAD) Internship project at Atlas Copco Photoshop, Rhino During my 10 week internship at Atlas Copco I got 50 hours to make my own project. The result is a merge between a mine truck and a hauler in order to save time eliminating reloading between vehicles.
Boxtram 30 Boxtram 30 is an electric powered semi autonomous mine truck. That aims to reduce the amount of vehicles in the mine. Changing to electric from diesel decreases the need for ventilation in the mine witch could be up to one third of the mines energy consumption.
BROKK 2014, 4 week Design manual project Collaboration BROKK demolition robots Developing a design manual and a brand guideline for BROKK. The manual was made together with my colleague Karl Marteliusson. We used the design manuals and applied them on one of BROKKs existing machine and re-designed it. BROKK Website
Sketches I like doing this.
Sketches And this.
Resumé
Jon Sommarström
Education 2016Umeå University MFA Advanced product design 2012-2015 Umeå University BFA Industrial design 2011 Dalarnas Högskola Solidworks 15Hp 2009-2010 Yrkesakademin Falun Millling/Construction 2009 Dalarnas Högskolan Art 15Hp
Work 2011-2012 Larssons Finmekaniska Cnc- operator 2010-2011 Jan Udden Cnc-operator 2008 Bergquist Insjön Spare part responsible
Software
Workshop
Internship
Language
Solidworks Rhino Alias Photoshop Illustrator InDesign Premier Pro After effects Muse Audition Keyshot
Cnc Milling Lathe Welding Wood workshop Paint booth Laser cutting machine 3D Printing (Makerbot)
2014, 10 weeks Atlas Copco
Swedish - Native speaker English - Fluent German - Basic
Contact Mail:
Jon@sommarstroem.com
Phone:
+46736698897
Thank you! Jon Sommarstrรถm