CHARLIE BLUNT DESIGN PORTFOLIO
WELCOME! TO MY DESIGN PORTFOLIO...
CONTENTS
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MOULTON BICYCLE
POLAROID POS 02 3D PRINTED CUTENSIL 03 THE MATRIX SPEAKERS 04
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CULT COFFEE MACHINE
06
AUDI R8
07
PLUMEN PACKAGING
08
EXTRA WORK
Charles Blunt
Address
Industrial Design Student
Contact
130 Cobham Road Fetcham Leatherhead Surrey KT22 9JS
ABOUT ME
charlieblunt@hotmail.co.uk 07450451101 @CBluntDesign
charliebluntdesign.com
EDUCATION
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I am a second year Industrial Design Student from Surrey, England, studying at Bournemouth University during term time. I have a huge passion for design ranging from Graphics through to consumer products and furniture.
From 2013 to 2017 Industrial Design BA (Hons) Bournemouth University
I have studied design throughout my education and I am always seeking to improve my skills and knowledge to become a better designer in the future, allowing me to follow a successful
Completed rst year with 2:1 Units: Design Media, Contextual Design, User Centred Design, Design Methods and Projects, Materials and Processes
and enjoyable career.
Sixth Form
Take a look and see what I have to offer!
Completed A Levels, obtaining 2 B’s (Graphic Products and Biology) and a C (Psychology) Howard of Effingham Sixth Form
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Secondary Schoool Completed 11 GCSE’s, obtaining 1 A* ( in Graphic Products ) , 5 A’s, 4 B’s and 1 C Howard of Effingham School
WORK EXPERIENCE ...............................................................................................................................
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2011 - 2014 Working at Squires as a Sales Assistant provided me with many roles, from working on the tills, customer service, to planting and helping with childrens activities. This job helped improve the way I interact with customers and colleagues. Creative Design
Squires Garden Centre
CAD Easy To Work With
2012 During my A Levels I obtained a work experience placement at Direct Design Esher. I was situated in the Graphic Design section of the company and spent my time creating logos, yers and posters for a print and packaging show. This experience helped progress my Adobe Creative Suite skills whilst broadening my passion to include graphic aswell as product design. Direct Design Studios
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01 Computer
02 Traits
Adobe Photoshop
Very quick learner
Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesign SolidWorks 3ds Max Design
Punctual
Microsoft Office
Cooperative
2011 Seasonal employment at Cannon Grove included potting and maintaining plants for their eventual sale to nationwide garden centres. To add to these roles, I was also required to speak to customers on a regular basis and help with their requests. Cannon Grove Nursey
Creative thinker Works well with others Can identify and solve problems 2010 I completed a work experience placement at Z-Card, a ‘Pocket Media’ company that uses an innovative method of supplying condensed information in a portable format. During the placement I assisted in a number of tasks including ling, product preparation and packing, and computer maintenance. This was a benecial experience as I was able to see how a design company functions and what happens in a successful work place.
Attentive listener 03 Other Hand Sketching Marker Rendering
Z - Card® Ltd.
Creating Concepts Presenting Ideas
REFERENCES
HOBBIES & INTERESTS
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Ian Bain
Theo Roe
01483282911
01202966673
Squires garden Centre
Bournemouth University
Epsom Road
Fern Barrow
West Horsley
Talbot Campus
Leatherhead
Poole
Surrey
Dorset
KT24 6AR
BH12 5BB
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Films
Technology
Music
Food
Rugby
Socialising
Guitar
Fitness
Design
Golf
Charles Blunt © 2015
MOULTON BICYCLE 01
World renowned bicycle company, Moulton, set a brief to design an iconic bicycle for the future. The driving force being ‘Irony’. The inal outcome should be a CAD model produced on 3d Studio Max, along with a scale image of the product being used.
ORIGINAL BIKE
SKETCH WORK The ironic thing about existing bicycles is that they are perceived as being good for your health, when in fact, they could be damaging your body and causing long term health problems, if used regularly. The idea behind my design was to ix this problem and allow the bicycle to be used with minimal long term health risks.
POLAROID POS 02
Kesslers International, in association with Polaroid has approached you to design a Point of Sale (POS) unit for the UK to help them gain market share amongst their closest rivals and current leaders in the UK sunglasses market. The units will be put in the retail environment including opticians and cosmetic and beauty areas.
My inal design was a three tier point of sale, suitable for use on a shop loor with products on display both sides of the unit. The top tier includes a mirror at eye level which allows the user to easily decide whether the glasses are right for them, along with a space for promotional posters. A hotspot is located on both sides of the middle tier which focuses the customers attention on a new or featured product. The bottom tier has four draws for storage and the wide base allows for increased stability. The supports are designed to slot in place which enables new sections to be added, or old ones removed.
3D PRINTED CUTENSIL 03
Design a ‘Cutensil in SolidWorks by creating a solid model suitable for 3D printing. The design should demonstrate your skills in the composition of line, shape, texture, form and colour. It should also show your skills in using and expressing your ideas using 3D print.
SALT & PEPPER SHAKERS Pantone+ CMYK Coated P 14 - 8 C
Pantone+ CMYK Coated P 179 - 15 C
Pantone+ CMYK Coated P1-1C
Finish Smooth Semi Gloss
Materials THIRD ANGLE PROJECTION
Main Body: Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene Plug: Silicone Rubber
THE MATRIX SPEAKERS 04
Revive and evoke the identity of an aesthetic style, for a new contemporary product: Research, deconstruct and analyse the aesthetic and semiotic qualities and features of a speciic nostalgic aesthetic style; Develop, reconstruct and synthesise a new aesthetic design concept for a new product in line with the chosen nostalgic aesthetic style.
SKETCHES & INSPIRATION
CULT COFFEE MACHINE 05
A design think tank want to develop an open minded and free form approach to thinking about design: To experiment with the idea of trying to pre-empt the design of a cult object for a future context.
IDEATION The cofee machine I decided to design includes a wireless ingerprint sensor. When the user wakes up, they can simply press their inger on the sensor and their favourite drink will be waiting for them by the time they get out of bed. Taking a while to get up on lazy days isnt a problem due to the insulating glass which automatically covers the drink once it’s made.
AUDI R8 06
Using a series of video tutorials, I was able to model the Audi on Solidworks. I chose to do this in my spare time to further my skills in the software which then allows me to create more realistic CAD models in the future.
PLUMEN PACKAGING 07
Develop a professional but lively (Brio), packaging design for a Bell Packaging client Plumen. The client is asking you to develop packaging concepts for the Plumen 11W Low Energy Designer Bulb. Work should be carried out in groups of four people.
IDEATION & DEVELOPMENT After bringing together our individual ideas, we discussed the similarities and diferences and developed our design further. We decided to combine the existing packaging techniques of Jetbox and Retran to create a sustainable packaging design which sits comfortably on a shop display and displays the bulb in an innovitive way that accentuates the unique form of the Plumen Bulb.
HALLO SANS
Bebas Neue
Baron Neue
PLUMEN
PLUMEN
PLuMEN
PLUMEN
PLUMEN
PLuMEN
PLUMEN
PLUMEN
PLuMEN
PLUMEN PLUMEN
The graphic design printed on the box was inspired by the pendulum paintings that we created. The form of the bulb reminded us of a swinging object and this was how we transfered that idea onto paper.
Font Selection Sans Serif Fonts = Clear, Contempory, Simple, Stylish Matches the style of the Logo
Bulb is held in place with friction ďŹ t, allowing the packaging to showcase the bulb whilst keeping it secure and avoiding damage.
Bold
Century Gothic
Bold Italic
Century Gothic
Regular
Century Gothic
Italic
Century Gothic
Green Glow #13-0442
Jet Black #19-0303
The colour scheme we are using for the packaging creates a pleasant contrast, aswell as giving a sleek, professional look.
EXTRA WORK 08
This is a selection of design work I have done in my spare time, for practice or just for fun!
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