LYDIA O’NEILL : DESIGN FOR INDUSTRY

BIRDHOUSE :

The Birdhouse has been designed to merge what symbolises ‘home’ to people and nature. By incorporating a plant pot, it provides another feature for the user to in-teract with, as well as providing the birds with the camoflage they seek for when searching for the perfect nest.

The simple design makes the birdhouse easy to use and clean. With a clear perspex window seperating the plant pot from the birds nest, it allows the user to tend the plant and check the nest without disturbing the birds.

RESEARCHNON LITERAL PRODUCT :

As a source of inspiration, I explored the theme of society’s constant need to make things ‘click into place’ both metaphorically and physically. I used these ‘urges’ to create a product inter-action that draws the user to want to touch, slide and play with the form.I played with the idea of encapsulated electron-ics; with society always wanting the next new Welectronic device.

liTELIGHT

liTELIGHT

LiteLight has been specially made to help support those who have undergone gastric surgery. This transformation in lifestyle is oftentrivialised by patients, which can prove to have devastat-ing affects. The physical affects of the sur-gery mean that the eating habits of the patient have to completely change overnight, putting a lot of stress on the patient both physically and mentally. For many, cravings for food, particu-larly sweet food, can cause patients to become depressed and can lead to excessive binge eating disorder.

LiteLight helps deter these cravings by releas-ing the sweet smell of peppermint, fulfilling the craving without succumbing to it.Unlike other aromatherapy devices, LiteLight works without you having to interact with it. By placing your liteLight in a common used room, the motion sen-sor will detect your presence and begin to re-lease the smell of peppermint, stopping the crav-ings before they start.

LiteLight is simple and efficient to use,turning itself off after 30 minutes of releasing the aroma.

live project : Bowers and Wilkins brief was to create concepts for a portable music device

Concept 1 : A truly portable device with the same sound quality you would expect from Bowers and Wilkins.

CONCEPT 2 : The portable speaker has been designed with masculine andfeminine tastes in mind. The elegant and simple design incorporates a single dial to adjust volume and change track.

ENTREPENEUR :As part of a business project, I had to create 10 products for £10 and create a profit margin. My ini-tial aim was create an alternative use for objects around us. I choose to use a traditional jam jar with a gingham lid as it provokes images to many of being home, family and civilised dining. I felt that this was ideal to juxtapose with quotes from famous hip hop artists to create the comical value I was aiming for. The project was a success with a 300% profit margin.

UNIVERSAl CANE : HiTCH has been designed as an antidote to passive design in disability products., eliminating the stigma against walking sticks, ridding the ‘aid’ status with a universal cane that considers form as much as function.

COFFEE CULTURE :a service design project with the Larder cafe chain into enhancing British coffee culture

THOUGHTS+IDEAS

Different to co-working space, won’t be work orientated

Less about the cafe and more about the area/community.

about bringing out individuals of different ages,agendas,lifestyles,interests and bring-ing them together to reflect the community they live in.

help people see an insight about the customer sitting next to them.

focusing on pleasure not business

Want to encourage offline conversation through online networking

taking the fear/awkward-ness out of talking to strangers

larders core values are based around the community its in

fear that with branching out,community and ‘independent’cafe feel is lost.

Don’t want to be intrusive

wine tasting event

people were in-stantly more chatty (before alcohol even served)

felt a common ground - all there for same thing

being addressed as a collective and not individuals

optional

opportunity to show customers just how loyal the larder is to local sourcing

‘3rd Home’

Must be accessible and easily used by all

‘how to use’ guide

trying to rid the ‘ice breaker’

Provide a platform for local businesses, groups and individuals to spread awareness

- Want to recapture the orig-inal rules of behaviour in coffee houses.

- A place to socialise with new people. -------------------- larders dedication to the local community its in

- fear that with branching out, community and ‘independent’cafe feel is lost.---------------------- Online networking threatens offline socialising

- Use online networking to en-courage offline interaction

tHANK YOULYDIA O’NEILL

DESIGN FOR INDUSTRYNORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY1 THE GREEN, WANSTEAD,

LONDON, E11 2NT07595 249 802

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