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B&O Food Blender

Spring 2014, GSA

This was one of my favourite projects we did in second year. It was consisted of three parts - Identity 1, 2 and 3.

First we had to buy a product and completely dissect it. I bought a cheap hand blender. You can see my "dissection" here:

Then in a group of three - I was working with the awesome Katherine Moriarty and Kelsey Kordakis, we had to research in depth the brad Bang & Olufsen. Understanding their Values and Brand we had to make a suitable in style presentation to convey the same feeling. I remember we dressed up real classy and did really well. I could only find the timeline we created for it.

And then it was the bigger part of the project. Everyone personally had to redesing their first product as if it was designed by the company they'd researched. So my task  was - design B&O food blender.

 

I had three final concepts. 1 was using sonoluminescence , the other was looking like a normal immersion food blender just using really high end materials. But what I decided on developing further is the dodecahedron based one. You can see my final sheets here:

goal:

Based on your research, design Band and Olufsen hand blender.

team:

Myself for the most part. Working with the awesome Katherine Moriarty and Kelsey Kordakis for B&o Brand Identity.

role:

Engineer, Designer

key skills:

Disassembly,  Electronics and Mechanics understanding, User research, Concept creation and evaluation, Thematic Presentation

tools:

Screw driver, Adobe Indesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Solidworks

results:

I remember being very proud of my BeoDivinity and the tutors were really happy. Actually even my classmates voted it "The most Desirable" from all the designs.

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