Tom Carroll CV & Design Folio 2016

Tom Carroll Graphic & Industrial Designer Personal Design History

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Personal Enlightenment: 2016 Advanced Diploma of Graphic Design, The Gordon, Geelong

2015

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Diploma of Graphic Design, The Gordon, Geelong Diploma of Sustainability, The Gordon, Geelong

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2006- 2011

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Bachelor of Design (Industrial Design), RMIT University, Melbourne

2004-2005

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65 mm hub 15 mm ** 15 mm ** shaft hole

St John the Evangelist Catholic High School

65 mm hub carrier

** guessed size, will chang when shaft size is known.

65 mm hub

Experiences: 2012-Current Torquay Surf Retail Assistant, Weekend Management & Web/Graphic Designer Ordering, Customer Service, High Level Product Knowledge (particularly with respect to surfboards and advanced surf products), Cash Handling, Design Consult (on logos/ t-shirt prints), web design and graphic design

2012-2014 3 Fin Productions Personal business in Industrial Design/General Design and boutique surf label. Freelance design work, boutique surf apparel

2012 Stanmor Ceramics Tilers Labourer Ordering Supplies, Screeding, lifting,Operating Bobcat, waterproofing, screeding.

2009-2011 Wallington Mitre 10 Casual Hardware Assistant Mixing Paint, Tinting Paint, Power tools, Hardware Service, Work on Tills, Stocktaking, Computer work, Customer Service

2007 Globe Australia Design Work Experience Coming up with new colour schemes/styles. Creating swing tags for products. Design new lace holder,General office duties

Passions: My hobbies include SurďŹ ng, Design Travel, Music, Skating and BMX, Making things from furniture to ďŹ ns and hand planes.

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High level of Computer Literacy (Mac and PC) Programs Include: Photoshop, Illustrator, Solidworks, 3D Studiomax, Photoview 360, Adobe Suite CC. Given a small amount of time with any program I can quickly become efficient.

Excellent 2D and 3D Design skills; including both technical drawings and 3D CAD modelling Background in surfing, surf life saving, local knowledge about the Victorian Surf Coast and Surf Life Saving, Bronze Medallion. Great ocean knowledge.

Strong people skills, I can basically talk to anyone about anything Ability to work in a team environment with an enthusiastic attitude or I can also work by myself and still get things done.

Good with my hands and know my way around a workshop, from small repairs to creating new things.

Graphic Design Folio

The Hopping Noble The Hopping Noble came about during a beverage branding project in 2015. It’s a modern beer label that pays homage to its roots but still competes in the current day. I wanted to create a brand that had the clean formal look and styling but without loosing that fun and roguish spirit. The Hoping Noble brand is designed with traditional beers and style in mind. The simple black silhouette gives it a clean look, however the slightly raised leg subtly conveys a playfulness that is not normally found in the stuffy originals. It is a classic beer for the everyday person, and when it gets right down to it who doesn’t like to pretend that they are a little bit fancy?

For resale in Australia only

18+ only, Please drink responsibly

Sleeping Beauty Medimime This project was for a pitch for a local charity that raise money for the childrens hospital in Geelong with an annual pantomime. For the overall theme of this job I wanted to keep the original feel of Sleeping Beauty but to give the whole thing a clean modern feel. I focused mainly on the display type which I created completely by hand. All the colours came from the original 1959 movie poster, which gave nice harmony and brought it all back to its origins. Then to give it that clean poster feel I used Trajan as a typeface both for its looks and legibility in multiple sizes. These simple but striking elements worked very well across the wide range of collateral.

Geelong Library Project This project was a total rebranding job for the new Geelong Library and Heritage Centre. Initially I found the rebrand a slight challenge, so I spent a fair bit of time on some research and looking at the structures and overall building. The building was a very specific shape and they spent a lot of money to have a central library hub that had a big point of difference which would draw people in. My idea was to play off this main point of difference which is the building shape itself. I simplified the overall outline of the library dome into as basic a shape as possible. From here it allowed me to use the repetition of the curves and lines to create some very distinct forms to use in the logo and as a strong theme throughout.

Industrial Design Folio

Dry Barrel In 2011 for my Major Project for Industrial Design I spent the year working on a system for drying a wetsuit. As a cold water surfer I know first hand there is nothing worse than pulling on a cold wet wetsuit in the middle of winter. So I devoted my final year to finding the solution. After that year spent up to my waist in wet wetsuits I had a product that can get the wetsuit 85% dry in 1 hour, is portable and watertight and also incorporates storage for fins, fin keys, wax, wax combs, sunscreen etc.

This idea of hardware storage also spawned a secondary product specifically for all the miscellaneous goods a surfer carries day tot day in the back of their car.

Globe Work Experience In 2007 I was lucky enough to get some work experience at Globe inthe shoe design area under Noel Forsyth. I worked on colourwaydevelopment for their Encore style as well as some logo development. I designed a few different lace holders, as well as a series of accessories based on the band ‘Devo’. Plus I designed a swing tag as part of Gallaz new range of roman style sandals; the tag was a simple instruction booklet for the numerous ways to tie the ankle straps.

Hanging Chairs & Table For my furniture design elective I really wanted to design something very different, yet still functional. The initial inspiration I got while on a surf trip to the Maldives, they had trees with sometimes as many as 15 chairs hanging from them. I loved the look and wanted to design something that captured laid back feel you get in a tropical island paradise. For this design I worked with physical models, partly because that is one of the ways I work best but also because quite early it became apparent that sketching and CAD would restrict the design, as they bypass the physics required to make this work. Every detail of the design was resolved physically working within the material constraints.

CLIENT

SCALE

RMIT INDUSTRIAL DESIGN THIRD YEAR STUDIO 6

DATE

1:20 TOLERANCES LINEAR 1.0 mm ANGULAR 0.5째 ALL DIMENSIONS IN MILLIMETERES UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED

STUDENT

SEM 2 2010

Tom Carroll S3134437

PROJECT

Furniture Kjell Grant

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