Experience Design - Winter 2015
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Experience Designer Winter 2015 HARRY VOS
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HELLO! I’m a British designer, who cares deeply about creating memorable experiences that benefit society through good product design and seamless services. The booklet contains a small selection of my recent work, as well as my CV. I'm looking for a graduate job, starting in July 2016, so feel free to get in touch.
Transcript of Experience Design - Winter 2015
Experience DesignerWinter 2015
HARRY VOS
A short introduction & my CV...
HELLO! I’m a British designer, who cares deeply about creating memorable experiences that benefit society through good product design and seamless services.
People often ask me what I do, and I feel an Industrial Designer is probably the wrong term. I’m a designer because I believe we can use design as a force for societal and environmental change. I tackle problems with a very open mind, and as a result, my responses to design challenges vary. Sometimes I design products, while another brief might require a service rethink.
Whilst I can design products for mass-manufacture, I prefer not to design short-lived products that will end up in landfill in 10 years time. I believe in giving products lasting value, and designing from cradle to grave. A big part of that is the thorough research phase I believe is crucial in order to understand users’ needs.
I believe an important factor behind the success of any product is a coherent, personal service – a positive, memorable experience that embodies the brand. That’s why product design and service design are inseparable.
Thanks for reading!
– Harry
p.s. I’m seeking a graduate job starting in July 2016.
HARRY VOS - AGE 22BORN - 6 NOV 1993
[email protected]+44 (0) 7949 122088
AECOM2008
Work experience
NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY 2012-2016
Design for Industry BA (Hons)
PHILIPS LIVE PROJECT 2013
Product Design
LEXUS DESIGN AWARD 2014
Shortlisted
WESTMINSTER SCHOOL2006-2012
History of Art AArt AEconomics BReligious Studies C
LONDON 2012 OLYMPICS
Games Maker Volunteer.
NORTHERN DESIGN FESTIVAL 2013
Works exhibited at Ouse St General Store.
NEWCASTLE CITY COUNCIL 2014
Live Project: Getting Newcastle cycling.
BLAZESUMMER 2014
Industrial DesignInternship: Researching & designing creative bicycle safety solutions.Reference on request.
HARRY VOS - AGE 22BORN - 6 NOV 1993
[email protected]+44 (0) 7949 122088
AECOM2008
Work experience
NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY 2012-2016
Design for Industry BA (Hons)
PHILIPS LIVE PROJECT 2013
Product Design
LEXUS DESIGN AWARD 2014
Shortlisted
WESTMINSTER SCHOOL2006-2012
History of Art AArt AEconomics BReligious Studies C
LONDON 2012 OLYMPICS
Games Maker Volunteer.
NORTHERN DESIGN FESTIVAL 2013
Works exhibited at Ouse St General Store.
NEWCASTLE CITY COUNCIL 2014
Live Project: Getting Newcastle cycling.
BLAZESUMMER 2014
Industrial DesignInternship: Researching & designing creative bicycle safety solutions.Reference on request.
NORTHUMBRIAN WATER 2014
Live Project: Creatively tackling sewer blockages.
HEATHERWICK STUDIOSUMMER 2014
Designer
“Harry joined us as a work experience student for one week in July 2014, but equipped himself well and contributed to the team sufficiently to warrant his placement being extended to a summer internship. This was an unusual move for the studio as we generally do not offer internships.
He worked with the Garden Bridge team initially developing design ideas for bollard lighting, latterly extending into an exploration of the family of designed items to be located on the bridge (benching, bollards, CCTV columns, etc.).
Throughout Harry showed an exceptional level of engagement, analytical thinking and proposition making, quickly becoming embedded within the team. He has strong concepts and good presentation skills visually and verbally. We would recommend him without reservation.”
- Paulene Hamilton, Head of Human Resourcefulness.
SMARTMINDS2015
Freelance Brand & Visual Identity Consultant
MARS DESIGN COMPETITION 2014
Winner. Selected to test the concept with consumers on a research trip to emerging markets abroad.
UNILEVER LIVE PROJECT 2015
Packaging &Experience Design
CODLO2015
Freelance Design & Marketing Consultant
NORTHUMBRIAN WATER 2014
Live Project: Creatively tackling sewer blockages.
HEATHERWICK STUDIOSUMMER 2014
Designer
“Harry joined us as a work experience student for one week in July 2014, but equipped himself well and contributed to the team sufficiently to warrant his placement being extended to a summer internship. This was an unusual move for the studio as we generally do not offer internships.
He worked with the Garden Bridge team initially developing design ideas for bollard lighting, latterly extending into an exploration of the family of designed items to be located on the bridge (benching, bollards, CCTV columns, etc.).
Throughout Harry showed an exceptional level of engagement, analytical thinking and proposition making, quickly becoming embedded within the team. He has strong concepts and good presentation skills visually and verbally. We would recommend him without reservation.”
- Paulene Hamilton, Head of Human Resourcefulness.
SMARTMINDS2015
Freelance Brand & Visual Identity Consultant
MARS DESIGN COMPETITION 2014
Winner. Selected to test the concept with consumers on a research trip to emerging markets abroad.
UNILEVER LIVE PROJECT 2015
Packaging &Experience Design
CODLO2015
Freelance Design & Marketing Consultant
Preventing women from collecting water in the developing
world, and giving them time to learn, work and play.
FREEFILTER
RSA Student DesignAward 2014/15
< preventing women collecting water >
I collected my own water for a week, and learnt thatcollectingwaterisn’titselfdifficult.
The problem is the opportunity cost of women collectingwater.Sixhoursspentcollectingwaterissixhourslostineducationortrade.
Thegenderrolesmustbechallenged.
“Can we give back women and children 6 hours a day by creating a pump and fi lter that leaves communities
self-suffi cient?”
Work-in-progress
say goodbye to watercollection, say helloto free fi ltration.
Parts needed.
Fresh woodwater fi lter.
Open sourcewater pump.
I collected my own water for a week, and learnt that collecting water isn’t itself difficult.
The problem is the opportunity cost of women collecting water. Six hours spent collecting water is six hours lost in education or trade.
The gender roles must be challenged.
PART
S
PROJECT VIDEOGive back women and children 6 hours a day by creating an open source pump, made from readily available plumbing parts costing $10 (if bought new) & a fresh wood water filter that leaves communities self-sufficient.
GREASE BUSTERDelivering innovative solutions to prevent sewage blockages for
Northumbrian Water.
Grease Buster is a new recycling service that collects people’s waste cooking grease, and converts it into biodiesel for use in vehicles.
We designed how the service would operate, its funding model, and a campaign to capture people’s imaginations despite it being a dreary topic.
DROP OFF PICK UP BIODIESEL
TOUCHPOINTSTOUCHPOINTS
HELP KEEP SEWAGE SLIDINGTRUCKS DRIVING
& PEOPLE SMILING :)
TOUCHPOINTS
VEHICLESSLIDESBIODIESELSEWER
AIRBNB STORIESArrive as a guest,Leave as a friend.
*inn
ovat
ors
As it hits mass market, Airbnb is changing.
“Adventurers open to friendship.” “People making /saving money.”
“Commercial properties flooding the market.”
Early Adopters Early Majority
INSIGHT
Hospitality
Functionality
Fair Share
INTERESTS FILTER AIRBNB STORIES
SOLUTION Give caring users the tools to compete against the rise of commercial users, who have greater financial resources.
1. Find a host with similar
interests.
2. Spark a conversation.
3. Arrive as a guest.
4. Leave as a friend.
5. Share your Stories.
Allows for greater distinction between:
This ensures everybody gets their
So that more people can find out just how kind the he’s and she’s of this mankind are.
Interesting, caring users come across better than commercial accounts, who don’t have interests listed or have Stories to share.
PEDAL NCLReinvigorating the council’s
cycling strategy.
JOURNEY MAPPING
WATER CANNONSPEED-TRIGGERED
EXERCISE
Newcastle Council won a £10m grant to spend on cycling. Most of that will go
towards infrastructure.
Infrastructure alone won’t get people cycling, so we were asked to find new opportunities
to get people on their bikes.
Can the fun factor be used tomake the cycling budget go further?
KIDS CLEAT
ENCOURAGE
TRAILS
CONFIDENTIALPROJECTSMARS
Winner of a competition set by Mars & Wood for Trees. The brief was to design a way to launch one of their existing chocolate brands into emerging markets.
13th November 2014
MARS Chocolate, Wood for Trees and the students of 3rd Year BA (Hons) Design for Industry at Northumbria University were involved in an intensive, 3 day, strategic design thinking & ideation workshop in November 2014.
This letter acknowledges the involvement of Harry Vos working alongside his peers and in collaboration with MARS Chocolate & Wood for Trees. The students were given 1 day to understand and interpret market, user and competitive insights to create thought provoking solutions to a strategic design problem across international markets. The students developed and refined valuable, relevant and stimulating concepts building in feedback from the project team.
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Harry was shortlisted from over 50 others after the first day of the intensive workshop.
The remaining 2 days of the project involved working with 12 other shortlisted students to develop, prototype and communicate their solutions with a higher level of detail. The students responded well to the challenge and were able to create a wide ranging and refined selection of concepts.
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Harry was 1 of 3 winners selected from the shortlisted group as a result of the engaging, inspiring and exciting work which they showed.
Amongst the many insights, ideas and solutions which the students presented, many will be explored further with the intention that a select few be developed refined and tested in their respective markets.
To Whom It May Concern,
WoodforTrees
Awarded a First for a live group project that reinvigorated one of their brands which currently sells in a stagnant market. We did this through a brand and packaging redesign.
UNILEVER
Five things I like (apart from design):
1. KERNELIMPERIAL EXPORT STOUT2. THEWIRE3. CYCLING4. JURASSIC55. BACONJAM
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