My life has been focused upon design for a long time now being influenced by great designers like Eero Aarnio and his innovative and timeless forms. In the future I hope to get the most from university in terms of skills and then set up my own business which will be as successful as the designers I aspire to.

I am now half way through my second year studying 3D Design at Liverpool Community College and feel that this course is enabling me to improve on my drawing and presentational skills as well as the technical elements to enable realisation. I am proficient using Rhino cad, Photoshop and 2D Design, However I think the opportunities offered by your course will give me a fresh approach to harness my creativity and the skills to refine the functionality of my work so that it can be successfully realised as beneficial innovations.

My Inspiration

My Inspiration
Emotive Design
In September I read a newspaper article about two children aged only a few months old and three who had been left inside a squalid house for two days alone. Inside the house were drug syringes and dangerous objects. These children were found by police starving and dehydrated covered in their own waste. This article made me feel angry! Why are so many children being abused and neglected? I started to research into child abuse and found that 20,000 children a year are put onto the child protection register. I wanted to help these children find love and comfort again and also express their emotions. I started to design a chair that the children can hit like a punch bag to release their anger, play with the product with other children for example like pillow fights, and also a chair that when they sit on it they have part of it in front of them to hug and be comforted by.

My initial design ideas and thoughts.

My initial design ideas and thoughts.
I started to think about were a child feels most safe, the womb is the place were babies feel warm, safe and secure. This made me focus on the shape of the fetus and how comfortable they look. I started to draw body shapes and developed them to more organic designs.

My design developments.

My design developments.
Here I began to develop my shapes into product designs, I looked at how I could manipulate the shape and design to allow two children to fit into my initial chair designs.

My design improvements.

My design improvements.
I presented my designs to some of my class mates and asked for feedback about my ideas. The feed back I got was that they thought it looked agressive and not very welcoming. I then made an action plan of how I would resolve these problems and started looking at cartoon characters for inspiration.

my final design ideas and the wire frame i am making to show the form of my product

my final design ideas and the wire frame i am making to show the form of my product
In my final design I have taken inspiration from the cartoon characters I researched and began looking at the materials and manufacturing of my design. With cartoons being bubbley and soft i decided my product would be an inflatable. I am now in the process of producing a model to show its form and I am also looking for inflatable manufacturers to work with me to make my final product.

using rhino cad.

using rhino cad.
This year I was introduced to Rhino cad. This was my first attempt at creating a chair using Rhino. I have tryed using different materials to render my design and went through a long development process to create my final design.

using rhino cad continued.

using rhino cad continued.

two dimensional design and photoshop for branding and logos.

two dimensional design and photoshop for branding and logos.
This year I have also learnt how to use the laser cutter with 2D design. I used this to create a logo/branding for my product. On this piece of work you can see my thought process to finally decide on the name Splay.

orthographic drawings.

orthographic drawings.
These are some orthographic drawings i did last year.

life drawings.

life drawings.

life drawings.

life drawings.

photoshop.

photoshop.
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