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Victoria Smith Designs
| Design Portfolio |
Education
Nottingham Trent University 2017 to Present BA Product Design Cedars Upper School 2012 to 2017 A Levels Product Design Economics Sociology
Skills Adobe: Photoshop
Victoria Smith Product Designer
I am second year BA Product Design Student at Nottingham Trent University. Here in my portfolio I am presenting some of my best work from first and second year at university. I am enthusiastic young designer, who would relish the opportunity to dip into new design briefs to help develop new systems or products to benefit other people’s lives.
Illustrator InDesign CAD & Prototyping: SolidWorks Keyshot Workshop Prototyping skills Other Skills: Researching Sketching Model Making Communication
Contact Mobile: 07944256926 Email: Victoriasmithdesigns@outlook.com Instagram: Victoriasmithdesigns
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Living In Small Places
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Designing For Production
03 Brand Extension
04 BPMA
05 Nestle
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Upcycled Wearable Product
Brief Design a living space / products for the young, mobile, urban dweller of the 21st Century. Your living space is limited to 15 square metres and must incorporate al the basic housing products listed below. Basic housing requirements: - Bed - Washing Machine - Toilet - Shower - Sink - Storage - Sofa/Arm Chair - Cooking Facilities - Fridge - Table Design Challenge: - Entertainment: User lives alone and enjoys hosting gatherings of 4-6 people within their home.
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Living In Small Places Wine & Dine
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Wine & Dine Wine & Dine table for storing wine glasses in top tray and allowing for sharing wine with friends.
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Place all the wine glasses in the wine tray.
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Pour wine into the wine glasses.
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Carry wine glass tray and place into the side table.
| A Small Living Space For A Young Individual Who Hosts Gatherings For Up To Six People |
Living Space A living space for young person who enjoys hosting gatherings. There is an open plan kitchen, living and dining room with all the essentials to live and host gatherings with up to six friends. Small wet room with toilet, shower and sink Upstairs with a double bed and great storage space, including a fitted wardrobe and the drawers. Skylight window to lighten up the room and make it feel more spacious.
Brief With production techniques such as laser, water and plasma cutting becoming more accessible the opportunity of micro manufacturing within the design industry has never been so achievable. Explore the commercial home-ware market, developing a single or range of products specifically for sheet material manufacturing techniques such Was laser, water or plasma cutting.
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Designing For Production F0LD Lamp Shades
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Style Range The F0LD Lamp Shade comes in three styles, which is formed by layering up the sheets of mild steel.
The small circular sheet supports the structure by holding the sheets in place and keeping the shade stable and balanced on the light fitting.
Sketch Development The F0LD Lamp Shade comes in three styles, which is formed by layering up the sheets of mild steel.
Assembly Of The Lamp Shade The 0 4 mild steel lamp shade is formed from three assembly parts that slot securely onto the ceiling light wire fixing. A contemporary and simplistic shade that is effortless to construct together.
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Individual sheets of the shade are layered together to form the shade.
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Two of the sheets slot onto the wire of the lighting connection. The circular sheet balances and secures the sheets together.
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Finished assembly of the contemporary lamp shade.
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Lamp positioned in situation on the light fixing.
Brief Through focused primary and secondary research your task is to design and develop an innovative, complementary product/products for one of the brands listed below. Consideration of new consumer behaviours, potential markets and brand impact is essential.
Brands: -
Mini Nest Havaianas W
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Brand Extension Forpeople - Nest
“Our mission is to create a home that takes care of the people inside it and the world around it. Because really if you think about it, the world is just one big neighbourhood.�
Discrete | Connected | Assistance
Target Market | Health Conditions | Health sectors | Family | Active | Lifestyle | Healthy | Socialise | Weight | Obesity |
“It’s a common problem in the UK that’s estimated to affect around 1 in every 4 adults and around 1 in every 5 children aged 10 to 11.” Overcoming Obesity The term obese describes a person who’s very overweight, with a lot of body fat. A common health issue in the UK which can lead to other health issues such as: type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, some types of cancer, such as breast cancer and bowel cancer and strokes.
Brief The promotional merchandise market is extensive and cover a manner of items. Merchandise is used for brand awareness, new product launches, conferences and welcome packs or souvenirs. Develop an innovative promotional merchandise product for a chosen brand or market. Consider cost effective production methods.
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BPMA Promotional Merchandise Compact Mirror & Perfume Dispenser
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Research Discovering existing products and understanding the target market to use for inspiration when sketching out ideas.
Eight in 10 people own At least one promotional item.
People keep branded materials for an average of
6.6 months.
Over ÂŁ840 million is spent on promotional merchandise every year.
Development Exploring different concepts through sketching various shapes, features and other ideas.
Function Of Product Compact and functional mirror and perfume dispenser for a promotional merchandise gift for a promoting a wedding venue.
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The two parts are magnetically joined together, so can be easily pulled apart.
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Separate the two sections to reveal the mirror feature and access to perfume dispenser.
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Mirror to check up on looks and perfume dispenser to top up on their fragrance.
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Two sections are joined together by small hidden magnets in the plastic.
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Final Model
Brief The Gen Z generation are virtually together more than ever, but some often feel isolated and disconnected from people and society. Also, they are experiencing higher levels of loneliness compared to any other generation. Research, develop and execute a new confectionery experience for Gen Z consumers. Create a confectionery experience that will connect the Gen Z users for an existing Nestle confectionery brand.
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Collaboration With Nestle Live Brief - Mash Up’s
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Target Market Gen Z are becoming ever growing disconnected form each other from changes in society. The aim of the Mash Up’s is to reconnect friends together when socialising over watching a movie. Research has revealed that the Gen Z generation are becoming more and more health conscious. Therefore, the Mash Up’s confectionery uses the concept of portion control to allow enjoyment of treats without guilt.
Function Of The Packaging From the research, I found that Gen Z are health conscious, due to this I created the tear and share concept to control how much the consumer eats and to share with friends to connect them together. The tear and share confectionery is a mixture of various nestle confectionery products including: Rolo, Smarties, Toffee Crisp, Aero, MilkyBar and KitKat.
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Mash Up’s! Tear & Share with six friends.
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Tear and share. Tear off each section for the allocated treat for your and your friends.
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Squeeze and pop off the lid to reveal th mash up’s of sweets.
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Easily pour the confectionery into your hand to snack from.
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Scratch to win! Match three symbols to win three months of Netflix.
Brief Upcycling is used to encourage people to reuse materials and products to redesign into something new, instead of buying brand new goods. Design and produce a fully refined product that is formed from reusing household packaging or everyday waste materials.
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Upcycling Wearable Product Plastic Bag Wedding Dress
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Research
Manufacturing the dress
Exploring a range of styles of dress and decorative details and existing plastic bag creations.
The manufacture of the plastic bag wedding dress prototypes was hand made from assembled plastic bags together to form the dress and decorative dealings.
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Individually creating each rose from layers of strips of plastic bags and tied securely with thread.
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Sewing each plastic rose onto the corset by hand.
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Layers of white plastic bags are sewn to the corset and chicken wire body frame works.
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Finished prototype of the wedding dress.