Final year students are working hard to get models finished in time for their presentations next week. Come and see the result of their endeavours at Creative Arts Week.
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Tag: Product Design
Grazie Italia… We’ll be back!
Product design students recently returned from an epic study trip to Italy and we thought we’d share a few moments with you.
Arriving in the Italian style capital, you can’t fail to be impressed by Milan.
Day 1 started with a trip to the Museo della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci”… The Science Museum to the likes of me and you! This is where I caught this lovely snap of our students in the Da Vinci Gallery which had intricate models of the great man’s many inventions. The Science museum is on my must see list.
We then headed to the city centre for lunch and the Duomo di Milano (the cathedral). What a building!
It’s difficult to believe that they started building it in 1386 and only finished construction in 1965!… and now they are having to renovate the old bits! :-/
Having been awestruck by the interior, many of us climbed the all too many steps to the roof. Another photo opportunity amongst the spires of white and pale pastel marble. You can see the mix of old and new. The views were spectacular.
And afterwards, a walk around the designer fashion shops in the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II followed by a beer (or two) in the city centre overlooking the Duomo. And yes…, those are 1 litre glasses (just don’t ask the price!)
Day 2 and we headed south to the Ferrari factory and museum.
We started the day with an escorted tour of the Ferrari test track and factory before visiting the museum.
The whole experience was fascinating from some of Ferrari’s classic racing cars to the stunning La Ferrari and of course, a Ferrari simulator! The students took a group Selfie but I quite like my perspective on it.
After Ferrari, we spent the evening in Bologna, a walk around the old town piazzas followed by some great, authentic Italian food. We took over the entire restaurant!
Day 3 saw us head for the Museo Ferruccio Lamborghini.
Museum director, Fabio Lamborghini, nephew of Ferruccio, gave us a personal tour of the museum.
Fabio had some great anecdotes about his uncle. Our thanks to Fabio for bringing the entire Lamborghini story so vividly and passionately to life.
From tractors, to air conditioning, the “Popemobile” to the very beautiful Miura we heard all about the ground breaking innovations and the “genius of Ferruccio”
It was quite a road trip. An unforgettable and inspirational experience for all.
I am reminded that Enzo Ferarri once said “If you can dream it, you can do it”
At Teesside, we believe that too….
Pack it in!!
2nd year students Callum Brookbanks and Lewis White have won silver and bronze star awards, respectively, in the Institute of Materials Student Starpack Packaging awards.
Callum’s entry for a squeezable butter pack with patterned nozzle won silver.
Lewis’ design for a pack that accurately dispenses the right amount of milk formula every time won bronze.
Callum and Lewis will be attending the award ceremony at the National Space Centre, Leicester, in September.
Tees Made 2nd…
This week saw a team of staff and 3rd students from Product Design take on other teams from around the University in the Festival of Learning Challenge.
Each team had to perform a number of physical and mental tasks against the clock which included making and riding a ‘Flintstone ‘ style car, bridge building and diving headfirst into a ball pool. The team hoped to win the £1000 1st prize to bolster the New Designers Exhibiton Fund.
The whole event was great fun despite being pipped at the post into 2nd place. Need to work harder next year.
‘Teething’ My Way into Industry
In the summer I conducted a 3 month internship as a junior designer with Jackel International under the Tommee Tippee brand. In the position I was given the opportunity to work with industry professionals in an in-house design department. In the role I was given the opportunity to develop design ideas for the company in a number of ways, working by myself in producing baby products and generating detailed research to support and show marketing teams the reasoning for the developed designs. I also worked with and alongside my colleagues to produce products for toddlers creating detailed sketch work, analysis and research to which we presented to groups from marketing, sales, quality control and manufacturing.
My time working in the position has allowed me to gain a greater understanding and appreciation for the work that is conducted in a real life industry standard design company. The enthusiastic, fun and friendly team I worked alongside have all contributed to my understanding and further knowledge of industrial design. I will take away this knowledge and apply it to the work I conduct in the future hoping to develop my skills to help me secure that dream job.
Owen Wright
3rd Year Product Design
“Going the Extra Mile”
The world of work is a difficult place for a young graduate to navigate. How do you get noticed?, get taken seriously?, get things done? Everything and everyone is new!
Well, product design graduate Michelle Blackett had some of the answers to those thorny questions when she gave an inspirational talk to our students last week. Michelle graduated in 2010 and her first destination job was as a Knowledge Transfer Associate with Nifco UK. Nifco UK is an injection moulding company, supplying many of the big name car manufacturers.
Michelle was employed through the university and mentored in her role by Peter Reid, Senior Lecturer in Product Design. Her job was to develop a New Product Development Strategy. No small task! Michelle has since gone on to be employed by Nifco in a variety of roles from project engineer where she was responsible for key accounts with Ford and Jaguar/Land Rover to her current position as Marketing Manager with responsibility for Branding, internal and external communications.
One of many great examples of how Michelle has gone the extra mile is when she organised a teambuilding and charity event for Nifco staff to climb England’s highest mountain, Scarfell Pike in the Lake District. http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/local-news/stockton-workers-peak-performance-tsunami-3675240
But now Michelle is about to go a few miles further… Ford have offered her a new role in Essex!
And the secret of Michelle’s success, in a nutshell… “always going that extra mile” and exceeding your boss’s expectations. That’s what quickly builds respect and builds your career.
Designers for the future
18 Year 11 and 12 students from Kings Academy joined us last Wednesday as part of a mentoring programme with our 3rd year students. This was the 1st of three visits over the course of the year. The product design students are acting as clients giving support, advice and direction on a range of projects undertaken by the students from Kings. Project briefs include kettles, interior car parts and lighting.
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As part of the visit they were also given a flavour of what it is like to be a student at Teesside University during a tour of the University campus by our 2nd year student Ambassadors.
Designers with a Conscience: Part 3
2nd Year Product Design Student Stephen Mounser was awarded bronze in the Creative Conscience Awards 2014
Design concept for an artificial coral reef that speeds up coral regrowth and aids biodiversity whilst also helping countries that may be struck by natural disasters
Designers with a Conscience: part 2
2nd Year Product Design Student Martins Elerts was highly commended in the Creative Conscience Awards 2014
Solar Stove Light and Solar Stove Plus are portable ovens which have been created specifically for us in refugee camps. They use solar energy and diffused sunlight to cook food and the visual language is inspired by Syrian architecture and Syrian beehive houses. The Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan hosts Syrians fleeing violence. Solar Stoves will give refugees more of a sense of normality and control, as well as enabling them to be active in the refugee community
The ‘Wright’ stuff
2nd Year Product Design Student Owen Wright was selected by judges from the Design Museum to take part in the exclusive Design Factory Symposium 2014.
The challenging brief was to:
Design something that communicates, provoked reflection on, or tells a story about a cultural identity and how can visual design culture be both global and modern whilst also having a strong cultural identity and ‘dialogic’, or conversational, two-way, relationship to society?
In answer to the brief, after months of research and development, Owen created the concept of Night Owls – a sustainable and energy efficient form of street lighting.
Owen’s concept was selected as one of the forty winners from the 1000’s of entries received.
The following is Owen’s own account of the Design Factory Symposium which took place on 19th May this year at the Design Museum, London.
“I got to the design museum for 10 o’clock and we were taken to a workshop room on the first floor of the design museum that overlooked the river Thames. After brief refreshments we were introduced to the day by the Deputy Head of Learning, Catherine Ritman-Smith. After this introduction we were given a talk by Designer of the Year 2014 architectural nominee, Alison Brook. Alison explained the way in which she designed and how she and her team came to create innovative designs through research and development. After this talk we were split into groups of about 5 students to develop and create a concept for a welcoming entry to a home using a mixture of design disciplines. The groups included students studying graphics, product and fashion which allowed us to understand how to work in a multi-disciplinary group.
After this exercise we had lunch and an opportunity to walk around the Design of the year exhibit with an employee of the Design Museum so we could ask questions. The final exercise of the afternoon had us helping MA fashion design students, to evaluate and critique their work. In the exercise we had the opportunity to express our thoughts about their work and what we thought could be different or what we thought was good. At the end of the day we had the opportunity to express our thoughts about the day and how it influenced our thoughts on the design process.
Overall the whole experience of the competition brief, from designing my concept, to being chosen as a winner, visiting London and spending a day at the Design Museum, was one I will never forget.”
