Katie Steel, Industrial Design
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Client: Optimum International, 2008
Mission: To generate refreshing concepts and develop the ideas into commercially viable products
Discipline: Industrial Design
Product Attributes: Contemporary design, integrated cable management, effortless assembly
Client Advantages: Cost effective, flat pack, minimal tooling cost, few components
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Product Attributes: Space Saving, easy to assemble and adaptable
Client Advantages: Cost effective, flat pack, simple to manufacture and minimal tooling
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Product Attributes: No assembly needed, space to hide supporting products and wires
Client Advantages: Ease of manufacture, cost effective, minimal tooling, appealing to the growing population
of people living alone.
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Client: Richard Burbidge Ltd, 2006
Mission: To Design and Develop a contemporary railings system which can be mass manufactured and is
comparable in price to a traditional wooden system
Discipline: Industrial Design Product: Fusion Outdoor Railings
The design uses aluminium extrusions, castings, injection mouldings and silicone extrusions to create a
railings system which is affordable, adaptable and extremely easy to assemble. The Interchangeable
panels and balusters give the user the opportunity to customise their system as well as giving the
design longevity as the panel style can be changed inline with trend.
The injection moulded bracket, firstly slides into the rail and then fixed into position by
tightening the grub screws.
The rails connect to the newels with high pressure dye castings which are
designed to be used at different angles.
The top wooden rail and the extruded rail are connected by
another aluminium extrusion.
The silicone finishing strip slides into the extrusion to cover fixings.
Project Outcome: Fusion Railings are stocked nationally in DIY superstores. Profit expected
by the third year of production was achieved in the first.
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Client: Ignite Retail, 2008
Mission: Gathering data from 3D Studio Max files to provide a compressive set of drawings to
enable prototypes of POS units to be produced
Discipline: 3D Modelling / Draughting
Product: Chambor POS
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Client: pndt , 2006
Mission: To produce solid models and drawings for the in-house manufacture sub-sea ultrasonic units to be used within the oil and gas industries. Discipline: 3D Modelling / Draughting
Product: Various Ultrasonic Inspection devices
A riser inspection tool, which is used to find wear spots within oil risers.
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Models and Renderings for this Sub-Sea C Scan used as to develop a concept and present to clients.
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Client: James Robert Design , 2005
Mission: To create solid models for the production of SLS, SLA and lost wax cast components
Discipline: 3D Modelling
Product: Detachable Shoe Heal
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Client: Jaguar Cars Ltd , 2001
Mission: To use packaging software to analyse design changes
Discipline: Vehicle package /3D Modelling
Product: Diesel S-Type
