Task 2: My Design Career

The reason I want to be an Industrial Designer is my desire to design products that benefit the greater community. I want to be part of an innovative world which is able to utilise my creative and imaginative mind to create products that can develop the world from the very small to the very big. I thrive on the willingness to work independently or as part of a team constructively and articulately to design objects that will benefit a diverse target market.

My passion for pursuing this career came to me through thoroughly enjoying and successfully completed 6 years of studying Design and Technology at High School. I always remained coherently at the top class level due to this enthusiasm in whatever I was given to do. I had the attitude of wanting to do it rather than I had to do it. It became clear to me that designing products was what I liked to do, which lead me to want to do this for my future. This idea of designing was also recognised when I was at a much younger age. If I had the choice between reading a book, playing with Lego blocks or play dough, the choice was obvious. My interest on creating and constructing was what preoccupied me most of the time, leading me on the path to design.

When it came to choosing what Bachelor of Industrial Design course interested me the most, it was at UNSW compared to other universities I had attended on open days. The course appeared to be able to expand my understanding of product development and realisation processes, trends, creativity, 3D drawing, modelling and rendering, building objects that benefit the environment, utilising materials and techniques and refining my skills in all areas of a design project. I wanted a course that would be able to broaden my knowledge of design to an elite level which the UNSW will enable me to do. It will provide me with knowledge of the aesthetics, function, ergonomics and marketability that will extend in the near future to benefit my career in this field. Also the choice of attending and studying at the UNSW was because of the universities recognition globally compared to others. Also the distance of travel needed to attend the university suited me as I live close by.
In the future as an Industrial Designer I will hopefully be an important member of a team successfully developing Australian products which will continuously be recognised as Australian and in demand world wide advancing to designing my own unique products and be well known for them.

Task 1: Shape of a Scent – SmeLL? ShApe ? TeXTure ? LiNe ? ColOUr? ProPOrtion ? EmoTion ?

This task was to create a “bottle” which captures the essence of scent.

First I produced initial rough sketches to elaborate the scent above.

The resulting outcome for the “bottle” shape for scent 13 made out of plasticine. Clues to what Scent 13 smelt like were: fresh, cool, breezy, hygienic, feminine, floral essence, elegant, simple, flowing, continuous, smooth, joyous, happy, proportional, free, natural and fluid. If this were to be developed into an actual bottle it would appear with a frosty exterior to depict the breezy freshness the scent provided.