20 20
MDes / BA (Hons) Product Design Coventry University Degree Show
Each year the course challenges our outgoing students, providing a test bed and showcase for their design skills. The extraordinary circumstances we find ourselves in have tested them further than usual, and we are very proud of the resilience they have shown in their continued pursuit of excellence. Finishing the academic year in lockdown has required us all to adapt to new workflows, integrating more digital communication, remote teaching and independent learning; making the most of the creative technologies available to us.
It is with this ethos of innovation and agility that we approach the design of new products. Our final major projects are carefully researched from the outset; justified in their conception by solving problems, meeting needs or addressing emerging opportunities in the real world. Students engage with a four-stage process over the course of the year:
Enquiry
Ideation
Development – Delivery
Research critically informs the ideation process, and concepts are explored and validated through rigorous experiential and digital prototyping before being optimised for manufacture. A focus on sustainability throughout the investigation ensures that outcomes are mindful of climate change, diminishing resources and material waste. Our approach is not limited to one type of product, and we are excited, once again, to present human-centred solutions across a range of sectors, including consumer, industrial, assisstive, healthcare, sports and furniture design.
The professional attitude developed by this cohort over the course of their studies makes them well-placed to address the challenges facing the profession, and indeed humanity. We wish them every success in the next stage of their journey, as they seek opportunities in industry. They follow in the footsteps of the distinguished and established alumni who continue to encourage and support the course. We hope you enjoy exploring this year’s ideas, and that we will be able to welcome you to the University in the near future.
- MDes / BA (Hons) Product Design Team
1
–
–
Welcome
2 Contents Welcome ..................................... 1 Contents ..................................... 2 Course Team .................................. 3 Niyi Adeaga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Didi Ademoroti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Sam Ashton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Sophie Bereziuk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Sam Binning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Lucy Bostock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Rachel Clayton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Mark Collins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 William Dalziel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Denzel Ndando Effiom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Swizel Fernandes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Alastair Gittings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Alfie Guard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Dongwoo Han . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Edward Hardy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Chijioke Ikpechukwu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Anthony Ioannides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Jasdeep Kular . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Faith A. Menkah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Henna Mistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Ian Monterola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Kathryn Naysmith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Rhys Pauline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Gil Maia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Sayal Riyas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Ed Robertson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Richard Siggee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Oliver Sinclair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Jakub Stankiewicz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Ryan Sean Taylor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 André Terchanian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Scott White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 William Wright . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Course Team
Throughout our final year the MDes / BA (Hons) Product Design course team gave us support and guidance with our final major projects that you will see in this book. We would like to thank them for educating us to be better designers.
Kieron Mason (Course Director)
Tim Ball
Matt Bassett
Clive Hilton
Tris Keech
Steve Kingdon
Tom Nelson
Graham Powell
Phill Smith
More Informatoin about the course can be found at: instagram.com/cuproductdesign issuu.com/cuproductdesign
3
Niyi Adeaga / BA (Hons)
Experience: Professional Enhancement year (8 Months)
E-mail: niyiadeaga@gmail.com
Imperium / Plyometrics In The Palm Of Your Hand
Imperium is a new portable plyometrics board, made for athletes to use in the time spent away from team training to help enable them to propel their skills further and enhance the chances of being spotted by scouts at the next level. Imperium consists of two parts. The base & the rubber plyometric pad. The sleek designed has been made to fit easily within duffle bags and backpacks, as well as easy storage and for rubber plyometric board.
4
Didi Ademoroti / BA (Hons)
Experience: KCA International (on going)
E-mail: iyunademoroti@gmail.com
Sanctum / Modular Workspace
Sanctum is a modular workspace designed to offer a reprieve from the standard working environment. It is easily assembled for a range of different seating styles. The table is adjustable to ensure the height caters to all consumers. The aim of Sanctum is to offer alternative working spaces for collaborations, meetings, debriefings or a moment to unwind.
6
Sam Ashton / BA (Hons)
Experience: Plane Industries, Bath, UK (6 months), Qualvis Printing, Leicester, UK (3 months)
E-mail: samashtondesigns@gmail.com
PREVENTION / Care For Your Skin
This UV monitoring device tracks UV exposure educating users of risks, providing critical data for the health and well-being of outdoor workers. Three colours are displayed indicating levels of risk, the colour coding resembles the ‘Traffic Light system’ and is easy to understand. It’s obtrusive design and robust casing protects it from damage and all-weather elements.
8
Sophie Bereziuk / BA (Hons)
E-mail: Sophiebereziuk7@gmail.com
Sensory Nature Playground / To Encourage Children To Connect With The Outdoors
This was to try and tackle the rising rates of obesity and lack of green spaces in London, for children aged between 3 and 7 years old. The space will also work for adults to sit and relax in, so they can de-stress from their normal day jobs.
10
Sam Binning / BA (Hons)
E-mail: sambinningdesign@gmail.com
BeeBox / Urban Beekeeping Made Simple
Due to factors such as urbanisation, natural habitats for lots of pollinators are disappearing. These pollinators are essential for our eco-system. One way in which to tackle this issue is urban beekeeping. The idea behind BeeBox was to help make steps towards this issue by redesigning the beehive to better suit a city environment.
12
Lucy Bostock / BA (Hons)
Experience: Popsa (4 months)
E-mail: lbostoc1@gmail.com
Conquest / Low Carbon Visionary
‘Conquest’ is the tool consumers need to enable a low carbon, air travel experience. This product is modular which aids with efficient packing to reduce weight and space and is also ‘smart’ which allows it to be tracked and carbon offset journeys. Using the eggshell principal within the design of the product improved robustness and allowed the wall thickness to be reduced and therefore reducing weight.
14
Rachel Clayton / BA (Hons)
E-mail: claytondesigns@outlook.com
HYDROOT / For a Greener Future
HYDROOT was stemmed from the demand for food in a growing population in urban areas, solely focusing on increasing self-sustainability and community. The product enables users to grow their own produce indoors using hydroponic technologies, where pressures and limitations of outdoor gardening are eliminated. The satisfaction of gardening, without the constraints.
16
Mark Collins / BA (Hons)
Experience: Vital Auto - Intern (9 Months) Vital Auto - Design Technician / Hard Modeller (12 Months)
E-mail: mcollins0407@outlook.com
Nike Vapor Adapt Concept / A Modular American Football Cleat
The Nike Vapor Adapt is a modular football cleat with the aim to eliminate the need to carry multiple pairs of cleats to any game or training session. It does this with its removable front stud plates allowing you to adapt your cleat to your playing position and the weather or pitch conditions you are facing.
18
William Dalziel / BA (Hons)
Experience: dpa Lighting Design Consultants (12 Months)
E-mail: williamdalziel@hotmail.co.uk
/ Light Pollution Monitor
In the UK, building, fracking and industrial sites must comply with government legislation on the amount of light pollution being produced in order to reduce the effects on residents, roads and wildlife. By combining functions of many different products lux measures light pollution in a fast and efficient way.
20
Denzel Ndando Effiom / BA (Hons)
E-mail: effiom.denzel@outlook.com
ZEBO / Ageless, Eco-Friendly Apparatus, That’s Adaptable To The Times And Or Environment.
Zebo is a welcoming, age-friendly inclusive apparatus designed to encourage inter-generational and cross-cultural mixing in suburban communities. Intended for the elderly, Zebo aims to encourage outdoor social interactions, and endorse a healthier lifestyle, by accommodating to different activities and or interest.
22
Swizel Fernandes / MDes
Experience: User Conversion (12 months)
E-mail: swizel1297@gmail.com
/ Make The Most Out Of Your Food
Eva encourages users to reduce, reuse and recycle their food waste in their own homes. Through the Eva’s mobile application, users are able to keep track of the contents of their food bin through its smart weight scales, learn about the problems of climate changes and how they are able to live a sustainable life in order to help fight this problem.
24
Alastair Gittings / MDes
Experience: Jaguar/Land Rover: Enhancement Year (4 months), Disklabs Digital Services: Enhancement Year (2 months)
E-mail: alastairgittings@gmail.com
Mieli / Keeping It Clean With A Greener Routine.
A collection of reusable and sustainable hygiene products taking steps towards achieving a zerowaste bathroom. All products are plastic free, and every component is designed to either be recycled or composted, to help with the preservation of key resources and to tackle the crisis of single use hygiene products and their negative impact on the environment.
26
Alfie Guard / BA (Hons)
Experience: Bathroom Sales Designer at Ripples Bathrooms (15 Months)
E-mail: alfieguard1998@gmail.com
/ Portable Filtration Shower For The World’s Most Developing Countries.
HyDrench is a portable filtration showering system designed for some of the world’s most developing countries, allowing dirty and unclean water supplies to be filtered through a complex glass fibre filtration system, in order to be safe and sterile to use. HyDrench will considerably reduce the chances of infection and illness and will immediately be available at point of use.
28
Dongwoo Han / BA (Hons)
E-mail: mrdongwoohan@gmail.com
Inclusive Drip Coffee / Drip Coffee Instrument For The Visually Impaired
The final major project entails design approach which brings inclusiveness to the coffee industry which almost never considers having it. Due to this non-inclusive nature of it, lots of design approach required visual stimulus for brewing coffee in a timely and safe manner. Finding a novel approach which utilises tactile stimulus to the design solution is needed to make this product suitable for the target persona.
30
Edward Hardy / MDes
Experience: Professional enhancement year at Coventry University
E-mail: e.a.l.hardy@gmail.com
/ Safe Water Anywhere
Primarily targeted towards refugees, specifically children in Uganda, PURA makes use of existing filtration technology and provides safe water to users in need. PURA would be distributed as a part of a charity aid scheme. The product would be working in tandem with a recycling scheme that would sort local recycled bottles and provide the users with convenient drinking vessels.
32
Chijioke Ikpechukwu / BA (Hons)
E-mail: cikpechukwu@gmail.com
Tawl / Adaptable Coffee Table
The idea behind Tawl was to create a coffee table that would be very simple, able to adapt to a person’s needs and have a durable, easy to assemble construction. The taller design of the coffee table allows it to be comfortably used as a workspace or a dining space while sitting on the sofa. It also features screwless joints which makes it easy to assemble/disassemble and increases the longevity of the product.
34
Every student in this book has made a set contribution to showcase their work. This book was created by students of MDes / BA (Hons) Product Design at Coventry University. This book was printed using doxdirect.com who gave assistance in the printing process.
70
Coverty University Product Design Instergram Coverty University Product Design Issuu Online Degree Show
