Project: Lathe: Industrial Design IV
Client: Academic work (DesignUSP)
Year: 2009
Job: Projecting, Modelling, Texturing, Shading
This lathe is a team project of Industrial Design IV discipline for Design course at Universidade de São Paulo (USP).
It was developed on several steps:
1. Definition of what type of product our team would aim: Metal Workshop Tools;
2. Task divisions between our team and the other teams at our class. The total number of persons is 20, and our team had 4. Each team would have a target tool to develop;
3. Definition of what problem we would treat: Lathe;
4. Marketing study: from basic branding analysis to the brands’ real tools itself;
5. Brand election to be covered by the class. From this brand, that we would simulate a product development, we extracted its scent and sinthesis. Then we defined parameters for a new segment. We all were proposing a new product set for this brand, that was chosen to be DeWalt;
6. From this, each group got back to its own tool and started ergonomy analysis, usability, aesthetics, etc. Some MockUps were developed to ensure these fundamentals were following a correct path.
7. The 3d aided process was fundamental for this work, so we had faster previews and more efficient changing of characteristics that would be hard to change on real models
8. With the correct 3d model defined, we could extract blueprints, diagram drawings to stablish technical data and use it to compose the techinical compendium and produce the final
9. MockUp.
This 3d model was one of my roles on the team. It was modelled on NURBS, and rendered with MentalRay.
Team: Andrei Speridião, Lucas Morita, Rafael Makoto, Tiago Valentim.
Design USP 2009, Industrial Design IV – Work.
