Jessica Nagle Portfolio

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Jessica Nagle

About Me.

Education

• 1st Class Honours in BA Product

Design at Nottingham Trent University

• A-levels: Art, Maths and Biology

Skills

• Adobe Photoshop

• Adobe InDesign

• Adobe Illustrator

• Solidworks

• Keyshot Contact

jess.nagle@outlook.co.uk

+44743479665

Instagram: @mymaterialmuse

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jessicanagledesign

I am a designer with a passion for creative expression. Besides design, I enjoy playing the piano, painting, and exploring different cultures. My design approach is heavily influenced by art and diverse environments from my travels.

I am committed to designing products with minimal environmental impact. I’m excited about exploring waste and biomaterials, looking forward to the future possibilities in sustainable design.

Contents:

Commercial project in collaboration with the LIA, utilising waste eggshells. Amapola.

A project embedded around the fast fashion crisis, offering a hopeful solution for consumers. Conscious.

A mini project, creating a fun, vibrant chair utilising plywood laminate offcuts. Chroma.

Looking at the limitations and benefits of using sheet metal for designing homeware. Bloom.

Designing a fully circular eggshell ceramic pottery kit, using waste eggshells collected locally. WildCraft.

A Sustainable Lighting Expression. 1 Amapola.

For this project, in collaboration with the Lighting Industry Association (LIA), I was tasked to design an innovative mood lighting with an understated luxury feel, centred around the consumer. I took a material explorative approach to design an elegant waste eggshell floor light.

Taking inspiration from nature, to create a calm mood, to aid the natural post-work wind down, needed for a successful night’s sleep.

My light won the award from The Lighting Industry Association & CTO lighting, achieving first place.

The Inspiration.

How might we use waste materials to create an elegant & luxury feel to design mood lighting?

There is a clear lack of brands, especially in the lighting industry, that are seizing the opportunity of using waste materials, yet waste materials can hold a beautiful understated elegance & connection with nature. Using waste materials & bio morphism, allows for a subtle reminder of the importance of nature whilst also creating the all important grounding , calm and relaxed atmosphere, needed to help the demographic of ages 30-45 , wind-down after a working day. This struggle to switch off, effects the body’s ability to produce melatonin, the hormone that promotes successful sleep, affecting the users mood, energy and productivity.

I experimented with the waste eggshells testing different ingredients to make a strong, robust ceramic material. I managed to create a cement-like consistency which worked well to be able to be spread into moulds. This material drove the design process. I also tested adding colour through an egg yolk glaze which was effective.

The Branding.

Pure Palette is a brand that turns waste into artistic style & redefines sophistication, sustainably. Embracing conscious design with purpose, our products tell a story of regeneration, using discarded materials to create unique products.

Inspired by nature, the brand aims to subtly reground you with the natural world. We keep things simple and create only what’s truly needed.

With a timeless style, our designs have creative character, where sustainability effortlessly meets style.

Amapola

Helping you to unwind after work and finding the beauty in waste materials. by Pure Palette.

2 Conscious.

A Circular Consumption Initiative.

For this project I explored the current fast fashion overconsumption mindset, looking for a way of creating this shift in mindset needed to slow our consumption as consumers.

After thoroughly researching consumer behaviour I designed a positive and fun, subscription service designed to keep clothing in rotation reducing consumption.

The Brief.

‘How might we encourage high street fashion shoppers to adopt a conscious consumption mindset?’

Insights

-87% of textiles are put in landfill or incinerated

-Gen Z is the most passionate when it comes to buying products from brands that align with their values…36% enjoy buying products that display their social and political beliefs

-A majority of younger generations (59% of gen z) are buying up-cycled products

-”people have this understanding of clothing as being disposable rather than a durable good”

-”reach net zero emission by 2050, the UK will have to change its consumption patterns by consumers and improve the resource productivity of producers”

-Planned obsolescence is a feature of fast fashion

https://earth.org/fast-fashion-statistics/ https://goodonyou.eco/fast-fashion-facts/ https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/mckinsey-explainers/what-is-fast-fashion

The Experience.

1. Download the App

2. Take the quiz all about you

3.Browse and interact with the lookbook for tailored results and inspiration

4.Start your monthly subscription

5.Enjoy wearing your items for the month

6. Rate and return the items you received at the end of the month, so we understand what you liked and disliked

7. Clothes get tweaked if needed to keep high quality standard

8/ 9. Donate any unwanted clothes you have to keep clothes in circulation

10.Keep your favourite items saved to receive them in the future

The Circular Fashion Brand.

Conscious App.

The Packaging.

Made from 100% Post consumer waste materials. It is both rigid so it is reusable but also simple so it can be recycled.

The Vibrant Geometric Chair Design. 3 Chroma.

This short, vibrant and fun project, utilised offcuts of plywood laminate that I acquired during my placement at Pluck Kitchens in London.

A fast paced project, embracing geometric shapes and bold colours, to create a large relaxed chair, designed to be of ultimate comfort.

Production.

Taking it through from the sketch paper, to CNC machining to construction and upholstery, this was an exciting and new learning curve for me.

4 Design for Production.

A commercial Sheet Metal Exploration.

Using stainless steel sheet metal, I was tasked with designing a homeware product or series of products for the couple Judy & Grant. Considering the manufacturing process, design a high quality product for the commercial homeware market.

This project focused on the manufacturing process, enabling me to gain a greater knowledge of different production methods and how to cost products for commercial use. It also meant that I had to work with the limitations and benefits of sheet metal, so fully understanding the material was crucial.

The Consumer.

To start, I looked in detail at the user profiles provided, choosing Judy & Grant, to create a clear image and understanding of their personalities, interests and opinions.

Judy & Grant

• Ages 50-60s

• Likes being situated within nature & having nature close by

• Likes collecting products & items from their travels/lives

• Every product has a story or is attached to a memory

-Random & unconventional

-Artist and filmmaker

-70s inspired taste

-Playful & quirky

-Keen on meaningful design

-Products that are an art piece not just about function

Moodboards

70s inspired colour palette

Mustard yellows

Cool reds

Electric metallic blue

Pale green

Bright and

Bold

Colour Considerations

I did research into the 70s time period as this was a clear design interest of Judy & Grants. I looked into colours used, materials, finishes, textures, details and fashion to create a strong sense of what the 70s were like.

Colour was a really interesting and important part of the 70s. It contrasted the stark, plain colours that were popular in the 60s. I think this moodboard has a strong direction which I can use for my design.

Starting Ideation.

Looking at different shapes and forms that feel 70s inspired. I started looking quite broadly at different types of products but then decided lighting and photo frames were a strong direction to go down. They suit Judy & Grant well as it will be more like an art piece rather than just a product.

Bloom.

Celebrating 70s design, through colour, shape and sculpture.

Curved flower ceiling light.

5 WildCraft.

The Fully Circular At Home Pottery Kit.

In this project I further explored waste materials, particularly waste eggshells, which I used to make Eggshell Ceramics. With further development, the material I created became much stronger, more colourful and durable. I focused the project around the benefits of using waste materials to boost mood amongst young people, experiencing climate anxiety and uncertainty.

To this end, I designed an Eggshell Ceramic at-home pottery kit that is fully circular and regenerative. The pottery items that can be created, can ultimately be composted when they are no longer wanted. It is a celebration of waste materials to provide guilt-free creativity!

Contextualising the Brief.

The Themes.

• Reclaiming hope & boosting mood

• A celebration of the beauty that can be found in waste

• Drawing inspiration from nature

• Regenerative & circular design approach

• A Material Exploration

The Brief:

How might we use waste eggshells in a way that evokes positivity & hope, amongst conscious consumers, in the face of the climate crisis?

Target Audience.

• Young adults • 20-30s

• Enjoy nature

• Climate conscious

• Find socialising & creativity important in maintaining positive well-being

Material Explore.

Product Identity.

• Organic

• Nature

• Pops of moodboosting colour

• Artistic & creative

• Painted print look

• Simple & refined

The At-Home Eggshell Ceramic Pottery Kit. WildCraft.

How it Works?

The journey with the user from the moment it is ordered through to the end of it’s life.

WildCraft Contents.

-1 Large Original Clay Powder Pouch -7 Small Colour Powder Pouches -Large Bottle of Binder 1 -Bottle of Linseed Oil -Bottle of Coating -6 Natural Paints -Small Bottle of Binder 2 -Tea Leaves -Introduction Postcard -Information Booklet & Optional Custom Tools Kit -Rolling Pin -Smoothing Tool -Knife Tool -Pointed Tool Colours.

The Clays. The Paints.

MauvePlant

SeaFoam Green

BlackbirdBlue

TeaLeafSpeckle

Fully Circular & Regenerative.

Thank you.