Vlad Borza - Product Design

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Medical Fashion This project looks at creating a medical product with the brand se- manthics of Paul Smith. I have made the mood-board (left) of the Paul Smith type of client and semanthics and applied it to a refillable nicotine patch type vitamine watch which would apply for the young urban, fit, trendy corporate professional. The kind of person buying the watch would care about his energy, fitness and, even though bulk muscle wouldn’t be of much interest for him, a nutritious diet is considered a crucial factor of his daily life.

Paul Smith Semanthics Board

Paul Smith Transdermal Watch

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Samsung Electronics Taking part in the Swarowsky and Samsung Electronics competition for designing chrystal-based personal electronical devices, I have designed a shower head microphone that facilitates singing in the shower to be amplified in the rest of the house as well as in the bathroom at the same time enabling sound recording.

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Yofi: Young Pioneers By 2030 Glasgow is a city that reaches an upper level of establishment through an emphasis on healthy living.

Navigating Future Territories

Yofi is the area between Yorkhill and Finnieston becoming an autonomous city.

Due to generating pollution. the streets in Yofi were eliminated and people’s dwellings are situated in open plains.

touch screen including layer and demographics maps joystick for menu navigation and zoom

Navigation Badge

This project explores issues of navigation, urban territoriality and societies set in a future fiction scenario The product is a navigaton system that maps the types of demographics in Yofi in different moments of the day

I have addopted a steampunk aesthetic for my product as I have designed for a rebel group that defies the imposed norms in my future scenario, therefore being prone to social repression.

Map of Yofi at Midday

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Kitchen of the Future Nutrients dispenser for spirulina home growing kit

Electric Nutrient Sifter

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Cafe Wi-Fi Throughout history cafes used to be places where people used to meet and socialise, mainly enjoying the bohemian atmosphere of the surrounding environment.

The Invention of Habits

This project analyses how and why the use of technology can change human behaviour from a sociological and design perspective, more specifically looking at how WiFi connectivity in cafes changes the interactions between people, but also their perspective on the cafe environment .

Within this study I have proposed interventions targeted to improve the user experience while using coffe shops as Wi-Fi oasis .

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For this project we were approached by the Scottish Ambulance Service in order to find a sollution for a form that served as a record for the community first responders containing the patient’s medical history and state at the scene of the intervention.

Scottish Ambulance First Responders Redesigning the Patient Care Record Form

Personal Notes Being needed for emergency situations (first aid), the initial form that the ambulance staff used (an A4 sheet) was not ideal for writing data at the scene due to complicated handling caused by its size, needing a hard surface to be usable and being highly perishable under the rainy conditions in Scotland

We have redesigned the patient care record form which is used

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for a formal archiving of information (for legal purposes) so that it becomes more intuitive and easy to use. Also, visually the new form reflects NHS graphic identity.

Acrylic cover A6 pad for recording levels alertness, breathing, blood pres-

Note: The first responder transfers the information from his note

sure (capilary refill) and pulse over a time scale (solving the ergonomical,

pad to the main form

rain and cross contamination problems)

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Tree of Life In this project I applied design strategy in creating a life plan for myself.

In order to be able to be in control of my life journey Ihave made a “life compass”which is a digital interface on my computer, working as a decision making tool based on an equaliser and “positives & negatives“ list that will help me achieve a balanced life.

As a way of mapping my life I have used a series of phisical/ visual artefacts addopting the idea of the tree of life from Eastern philosophies of well being and self sustainability and considered every decisiion I make leading to a life cycle that can be linked with other cycles.

Design as Strategy 1

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Checking the “life equaliser” before making a crucial life decision

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Illustrating the alternative possible paths

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Life Seen as being cyclical: Mapping a life “cycle”

Making decisions: Mapping the complete life journey

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The Community Champion The community champion is a response to the issue of social isolation among the elderly, project done in collaboration with IRRIS ( The Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Sciences) with the aim of reshaping care for older people.

Social Isolation

A community champion is an active member of the community who helps seniours in (or in risk of) social isolation to reconnect or engage with the local community, other people, activities and services in order to regain their personal life balance as previous to their condition.

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