CONCEPTS + DESIGN
CARS ARE BORING
Undergraduate Senior Design Project
Our modern daily vehicles look extremely alike: shapes, colors, materials, and features all blend into one immense achromatic mass on the roads. Why do our current cars look the way they do? CARS ARE BORING is all about exploring and developing the exterior design of daily vehicles.
With this project, I suggest alternative designs for car owners and enthusiasts who like to stand out and prefer owning and buying new cars. I am designing for people with a strong desire to see a bigger variety in colors, shapes, and other visual features that affect the exteriors of our vehicles.
Creatures + Characters
Concept Design Sketchbook
Ongoing gallery of creature and character sketches, including some 3D and physical work.
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Creature design has been my passion for as long as I remember. I love learning about various animals, their anatomy, features, behavior, environment, and why they evolve the way they do. I believe that knowledge such as this helps to design realistic creatures and aids better world-building.
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Due to my background in product design and development, I aim to create concepts that have potential to be pushed past the concept stage.
Vapor Helmet
Undergraduate Design Project
Vapor Helmet is a futuristic device designed to protect its user from the harsh environment caused by climate changes. The helmet is created with a dystopian mindset, assuming the continuation of environmental change and minding potential needs of people in the twenty-second century. Basic features include protection from intense UV radiation, poor air quality, and skin dehydration.
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For this project, I created a story and a persona, designed the helmet according to the user's needs, ideated and iterated a solution, modeled the final design in CAD, animated and rendered it, researched materials and necessary components, made a manufacturing plan including a BOM, and calculated manufacturing costs.
Sobaka Solar Harness
Undergraduate Design Project
The objective of this project was to create a product that collects solar power, fits the NIKE brand, and satisfies the needs and desires of a NIKE customer. Sobaka Solar Harness is a solution for people who love to be active outside with their pets.
For this project, I have found and interviewed a NIKE consumer who also owns a dog, pinpointed their pain points, mapped the user's storyboard, ideated solutions according to the user's needs, sewed the product out of available during the pandemic materials, iterated and adjusted the design based on user tests, delivered the final prototype, and tested it again.
