Today I started my Product Design Intern at a company called Bluw, based in london.
This morning I sat in on a meeting with the company's contacts in Hong Kong, which was really interesting! It gave me the chance to learn about all the core products as well as the new customer specific products. I also gained an insight to the importance of communication and how it can affect the progression of a product to market.
This afternoon I am being introduced to some work involving arranging artwork on product packaging and generally getting to know how they work here!
Tuesday, 21 September 2010
Tuesday, 17 August 2010
Playing with 'Smoke' Paintbrushes in Photoshop
I started with a picture of my boyfriend, which soon transformed into this abstract and colourful portrait made up of several layers of different 'smoke' brush strokes!
It was interesting increasing and decreasing the opacity of the brush to achieve different effects. I chose to increase the opacity of the brush strokes used around the face to intensify the facial features.
Saturday, 7 August 2010
Drawing an iPod Shuffle...
Usually, I will draw my designs in Adobe Illustrator then transfer them for rendering to Photoshop.
I decided to work solely on Photoshop whilst drawing an iPod Shuffle. Some of the lines are slightly wobbly but overall a good final piece considering the drawing tools differ in many ways.
Short Tutorial on Adobe Photoshop
Having finished University, I felt the need to continue developing my skills in Design.
Using Adobe Photoshop I have created the Transformers logo (!) using different textures and lighting effects.
This is the final result.......
Thursday, 22 July 2010
Graduating with a First Class Honours and two awards!
On Wednesday 14th July 2010, I graduated from the University of Portsmouth with a First Class Honours in BSc (Hons) Product Design and Innovation.
Seems that all the very hard work paid off! I also received two awards:
‘Project Prize BSc (Hons) Product Design & Innovation’ by the Department of Mechanical Design and Engineering, University of Portsmouth, 2009/2010.
And...
‘The Institution Best Project’ by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 2010.
All in all a fantastic day full of great achievements!
Thursday, 1 July 2010
June 2010 - Unearthing some old artwork!
Along with Product Design, I have always enjoyed fine art.I moved home from University recently and during a clear out I found huge amounts of my art work.
Here are some on my favourite pieces, several of which are artist studies.
4th June 2010 - Work displayed in the Design Museum
The work produced for the 'Design Factory - Ergonomics Real Design' competition was displayed in the Design Museum for one night only!
It has also been placed on Flickr .....
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