DAVID CONNELL
PRODUCT DESIGN BSc
About Me:
Through the past 4 years at Brunel I have developed an extremely diverse skill set, further developed and strengthened by industry experience as a fully contributing designer in a small, busy, London design consultancy; finding time in-between to gain invaluable freelance experience, explore the far-off shores of Australia and form a lifetime of memories and good times.
As such I have a proven record of ensuring the delivery of products from the briefing table to the retail outlet, and all intervening stages.
With a varied client list, from Next to Audi, and strongly supported by an in-depth understanding of the operations of small and large companies borne from my studies and work across multiple firms, I bring a strong commercial edge, (and charismatic character) to any team.
Experience:
- Apr 2007 – Jun 2007 - Lifelab Innovations Ltd. Delivery of an Alpha-prototyped concept from a provided gap and route to market, along with an outlined ‘problem’; pitched to marketeers to assess market draw for such a product. A freelance product design project gained after recommendation by a past lecturer.
- Aug 2005 – Jul 2006 Fully contributing member of a small design team, producing product specifications and GA documents for manufacture overseas, concept creation and detail design of rough concepts; following projects from the clients briefing to the retail outlet.
Skills:
Solidworks, Pro-Engineer, Alias Studiotools, Alias Maya, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Flash, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Fireworks, PIC Assembly coding, MPLAB, Actionscript, HTML coding, Visual Basic, Microsoft Office , Adobe InDesign.
Interests:
I'm a keen self-taught acoustic guitar player and photographer, also enjoying the odd game of badminton along with a healthy passion for espressos’.
Jet Lag reducing headset
An exhaustive investigation into the link between user and product on both a biological, psychological and anthropometric level; leading to a product that can alter the user’s biological clock through visual and audible cues (Zeitgeibers).
Extensive research into shifting circadian rhythms with light of certain levels and frequencies, as well as the instigation of meditative states via offset frequency sound replication, has led to the design of a personal headset and software package, that affectively re-trains the users body in-flight, and induces maximum relaxation whilst doing so, allowing for the minimisation of jet lag and flight fatigue when the end destination is reached.
