Smart Design and Advanced Product Design Engineering

MSc Smart Design
Exploring the development of cardboard and the opportunities it provides for retail – ready packaging

Chris was awarded a full fee bursary by PepsiCo.

With the rise of retail-ready packaging and an increased focus on its environmental credentials, it is important that corrugated cardboard, one of the most ubiquitous and commonly used packaging materials, develops in order to drive innovation and retain popularity.

This research was conducted on behalf of PepsiCo Europe. It aimed to investigate and address any new demands which retail ready packaging and lightweighting may have upon corrugated cardboard as a secondary packaging material.

MSc Smart Design
Exploring the development of cardboard and the opportunities it provides for retail – ready packaging

Chris was awarded a full fee bursary by PepsiCo.

With the rise of retail-ready packaging and an increased focus on its environmental credentials, it is important that corrugated cardboard, one of the most ubiquitous and commonly used packaging materials, develops in order to drive innovation and retain popularity.

This research was conducted on behalf of PepsiCo Europe. It aimed to investigate and address any new demands which retail ready packaging and lightweighting may have upon corrugated cardboard as a secondary packaging material.

MSc Smart Design

Chris was awarded a full fee bursary by PepsiCo.

MSc Smart Design

Chris was awarded a full fee bursary by PepsiCo.

MSc Smart Design
Rowers Training App.- Iterative design of an application for the iPhone

The aim of my project was to make an application for the iPhone which builds upon some of the high-tech digital training aids normally only available to elite clubs or international athletes with high levels of funding. This is so that all talented rowers can benefit from access to high-performance rowing tools, regardless of budget.

The project explored user-centred design methods. The development of the application involved an iterative design process with a series of prototype programs tested by potential users so that I could produce a product well suited to its function.

MSc Smart Design
Rowers Training App.- Iterative design of an application for the iPhone

The aim of my project was to make an application for the iPhone which builds upon some of the high-tech digital training aids normally only available to elite clubs or international athletes with high levels of funding. This is so that all talented rowers can benefit from access to high-performance rowing tools, regardless of budget.

The project explored user-centred design methods. The development of the application involved an iterative design process with a series of prototype programs tested by potential users so that I could produce a product well suited to its function.

MSc Smart Design
Rowers Training App.- Iterative design of an application for the iPhone

The aim of my project was to make an application for the iPhone which builds upon some of the high-tech digital training aids normally only available to elite clubs or international athletes with high levels of funding. This is so that all talented rowers can benefit from access to high-performance rowing tools, regardless of budget.

The project explored user-centred design methods. The development of the application involved an iterative design process with a series of prototype programs tested by potential users so that I could produce a product well suited to its function.

MSc Smart Design
Sensing and control of an embedded ‘Smart Muscle’ actuator for the restoration of a symmetric smile in facial paralysis patients

This project investigated a method of creating artificial muscles using smart polymers. The idea is that these can be implanted under the cheek of people affected by permanent facial paralysis – particularly those who have suffered a stroke.

This proof of concept demonstration is done via an animatronic head which focuses on creating a realistic range of smiles with various muscle actuations. These include those around the eyes, cheek and mouth which together normally combine to create a genuine or involuntary smile.

MSc Smart Design
Sensing and control of an embedded ‘Smart Muscle’ actuator for the restoration of a symmetric smile in facial paralysis patients

This project investigated a method of creating artificial muscles using smart polymers. The idea is that these can be implanted under the cheek of people affected by permanent facial paralysis – particularly those who have suffered a stroke.

This proof of concept demonstration is done via an animatronic head which focuses on creating a realistic range of smiles with various muscle actuations. These include those around the eyes, cheek and mouth which together normally combine to create a genuine or involuntary smile.

MSc Smart Design
Sensing and control of an embedded ‘Smart Muscle’ actuator for the restoration of a symmetric smile in facial paralysis patients

This project investigated a method of creating artificial muscles using smart polymers. The idea is that these can be implanted under the cheek of people affected by permanent facial paralysis – particularly those who have suffered a stroke.

This proof of concept demonstration is done via an animatronic head which focuses on creating a realistic range of smiles with various muscle actuations. These include those around the eyes, cheek and mouth which together normally combine to create a genuine or involuntary smile.

MA Smart Design
Experience design – Vision of the Train Travel Experience for Europe in year 2020

Public transit systems are a part of daily life in many European countries. My project investigated the perspective and vision of future rail travel experience in Europe for 2020 and how related technology will change our lives. Experience design is about how products and their environments relate.

This project focused on a future rail travel card and the way it reacts and communicates with the train carriage environment. My work combines stop-motion animations and a scaled prototype of the train carriage, linking together traditional techniques with modern technology. The audience will interpret their own experience through a computer animation which will present the interactions between the user, object and environment.  

MA Smart Design
Experience design – Vision of the Train Travel Experience for Europe in year 2020

Public transit systems are a part of daily life in many European countries. My project investigated the perspective and vision of future rail travel experience in Europe for 2020 and how related technology will change our lives. Experience design is about how products and their environments relate.

This project focused on a future rail travel card and the way it reacts and communicates with the train carriage environment. My work combines stop-motion animations and a scaled prototype of the train carriage, linking together traditional techniques with modern technology. The audience will interpret their own experience through a computer animation which will present the interactions between the user, object and environment.  

MA Smart Design
Experience design – Vision of the Train Travel Experience for Europe in year 2020

Public transit systems are a part of daily life in many European countries. My project investigated the perspective and vision of future rail travel experience in Europe for 2020 and how related technology will change our lives. Experience design is about how products and their environments relate.

This project focused on a future rail travel card and the way it reacts and communicates with the train carriage environment. My work combines stop-motion animations and a scaled prototype of the train carriage, linking together traditional techniques with modern technology. The audience will interpret their own experience through a computer animation which will present the interactions between the user, object and environment.  

MA Smart Design
Experience design – Vision of the Train Travel Experience for Europe in year 2020

Public transit systems are a part of daily life in many European countries. My project investigated the perspective and vision of future rail travel experience in Europe for 2020 and how related technology will change our lives. Experience design is about how products and their environments relate.

This project focused on a future rail travel card and the way it reacts and communicates with the train carriage environment. My work combines stop-motion animations and a scaled prototype of the train carriage, linking together traditional techniques with modern technology. The audience will interpret their own experience through a computer animation which will present the interactions between the user, object and environment.  

MA Smart Design
The emergence of an aesthetically intelligent building skin: new movement for automated shading system

My background is Interior Architecture, so for my major project I explored how to give the facade and “skin” of a building more functions, how to make it more sustainable and provide energy savings, whilst still making it aesthetically pleasing. 

In this over-designed world, people tend to need more smart technologies to enhance the performance of a product. Due to increasing climate issues, I decided to explore a new intelligent building skin which is not only functional but also aesthetically attractive.

Currently, responsive and dynamic materials are having a strong impact on this new era in building environments. Therefore, the main aim of this project was to explore a new movement for the responsive building skin. The façade I have designed will respond according to levels of sunlight. It will curl when shaded and expand when the building is exposed to direct sunlight or reflection from other buildings. The concept of this building skin combines technological aesthetic potential with environmental control challenges.

MA Smart Design
The emergence of an aesthetically intelligent building skin: new movement for automated shading system

My background is Interior Architecture, so for my major project I explored how to give the facade and “skin” of a building more functions, how to make it more sustainable and provide energy savings, whilst still making it aesthetically pleasing. 

In this over-designed world, people tend to need more smart technologies to enhance the performance of a product. Due to increasing climate issues, I decided to explore a new intelligent building skin which is not only functional but also aesthetically attractive.

Currently, responsive and dynamic materials are having a strong impact on this new era in building environments. Therefore, the main aim of this project was to explore a new movement for the responsive building skin. The façade I have designed will respond according to levels of sunlight. It will curl when shaded and expand when the building is exposed to direct sunlight or reflection from other buildings. The concept of this building skin combines technological aesthetic potential with environmental control challenges.

MA Smart Design
The emergence of an aesthetically intelligent building skin: new movement for automated shading system

My background is Interior Architecture, so for my major project I explored how to give the facade and “skin” of a building more functions, how to make it more sustainable and provide energy savings, whilst still making it aesthetically pleasing. 

In this over-designed world, people tend to need more smart technologies to enhance the performance of a product. Due to increasing climate issues, I decided to explore a new intelligent building skin which is not only functional but also aesthetically attractive.

Currently, responsive and dynamic materials are having a strong impact on this new era in building environments. Therefore, the main aim of this project was to explore a new movement for the responsive building skin. The façade I have designed will respond according to levels of sunlight. It will curl when shaded and expand when the building is exposed to direct sunlight or reflection from other buildings. The concept of this building skin combines technological aesthetic potential with environmental control challenges.

MA Smart Design
The emergence of an aesthetically intelligent building skin: new movement for automated shading system

My background is Interior Architecture, so for my major project I explored how to give the facade and “skin” of a building more functions, how to make it more sustainable and provide energy savings, whilst still making it aesthetically pleasing. 

In this over-designed world, people tend to need more smart technologies to enhance the performance of a product. Due to increasing climate issues, I decided to explore a new intelligent building skin which is not only functional but also aesthetically attractive.

Currently, responsive and dynamic materials are having a strong impact on this new era in building environments. Therefore, the main aim of this project was to explore a new movement for the responsive building skin. The façade I have designed will respond according to levels of sunlight. It will curl when shaded and expand when the building is exposed to direct sunlight or reflection from other buildings. The concept of this building skin combines technological aesthetic potential with environmental control challenges.

MA Smart Design
The emergence of an aesthetically intelligent building skin: new movement for automated shading system

My background is Interior Architecture, so for my major project I explored how to give the facade and “skin” of a building more functions, how to make it more sustainable and provide energy savings, whilst still making it aesthetically pleasing. 

In this over-designed world, people tend to need more smart technologies to enhance the performance of a product. Due to increasing climate issues, I decided to explore a new intelligent building skin which is not only functional but also aesthetically attractive.

Currently, responsive and dynamic materials are having a strong impact on this new era in building environments. Therefore, the main aim of this project was to explore a new movement for the responsive building skin. The façade I have designed will respond according to levels of sunlight. It will curl when shaded and expand when the building is exposed to direct sunlight or reflection from other buildings. The concept of this building skin combines technological aesthetic potential with environmental control challenges.

MA Smart Design
The emergence of an aesthetically intelligent building skin: new movement for automated shading system

My background is Interior Architecture, so for my major project I explored how to give the facade and “skin” of a building more functions, how to make it more sustainable and provide energy savings, whilst still making it aesthetically pleasing. 

In this over-designed world, people tend to need more smart technologies to enhance the performance of a product. Due to increasing climate issues, I decided to explore a new intelligent building skin which is not only functional but also aesthetically attractive.

Currently, responsive and dynamic materials are having a strong impact on this new era in building environments. Therefore, the main aim of this project was to explore a new movement for the responsive building skin. The façade I have designed will respond according to levels of sunlight. It will curl when shaded and expand when the building is exposed to direct sunlight or reflection from other buildings. The concept of this building skin combines technological aesthetic potential with environmental control challenges.

MSc Advanced Product Design
Design of a Wave Energy Converter

Waves move energy, not water, great distances. Water works as the medium through which kinetic energy, or energy in motion, travels. This project explored the possibilities of harvesting this type of energy and included the examination of a number of varying energy harvesting system configurations.

The main objective was to achieve higher rates of efficiency when capturing and converting water’s potential energy into kinetic energy, transforming it into clean, renewable electric energy.

MSc Advanced Product Design
Design of a Wave Energy Converter

Waves move energy, not water, great distances. Water works as the medium through which kinetic energy, or energy in motion, travels. This project explored the possibilities of harvesting this type of energy and included the examination of a number of varying energy harvesting system configurations.

The main objective was to achieve higher rates of efficiency when capturing and converting water’s potential energy into kinetic energy, transforming it into clean, renewable electric energy.

MSc Advanced Product Design
Design of a Wave Energy Converter

Waves move energy, not water, great distances. Water works as the medium through which kinetic energy, or energy in motion, travels. This project explored the possibilities of harvesting this type of energy and included the examination of a number of varying energy harvesting system configurations.

The main objective was to achieve higher rates of efficiency when capturing and converting water’s potential energy into kinetic energy, transforming it into clean, renewable electric energy.

MSc Advanced Product Design
Design of a Wave Energy Converter

Waves move energy, not water, great distances. Water works as the medium through which kinetic energy, or energy in motion, travels. This project explored the possibilities of harvesting this type of energy and included the examination of a number of varying energy harvesting system configurations.

The main objective was to achieve higher rates of efficiency when capturing and converting water’s potential energy into kinetic energy, transforming it into clean, renewable electric energy.

MSc Advanced Product Design
Design of a Wave Energy Converter

Waves move energy, not water, great distances. Water works as the medium through which kinetic energy, or energy in motion, travels. This project explored the possibilities of harvesting this type of energy and included the examination of a number of varying energy harvesting system configurations.

The main objective was to achieve higher rates of efficiency when capturing and converting water’s potential energy into kinetic energy, transforming it into clean, renewable electric energy.

MSc Advanced Product Design
Design of a Wave Energy Converter

Waves move energy, not water, great distances. Water works as the medium through which kinetic energy, or energy in motion, travels. This project explored the possibilities of harvesting this type of energy and included the examination of a number of varying energy harvesting system configurations.

The main objective was to achieve higher rates of efficiency when capturing and converting water’s potential energy into kinetic energy, transforming it into clean, renewable electric energy.