University of Plymouth

Fluid wood

What if wood can flow like a fluid. A range of items exploring this theme.

Huw Evans: Designer Maker

Valued Package

Crack open this protective packaging to celebrate receiving your present, in this case jewellery. Afterwards, it's re-useable as a display case. Made from recycled paper, feathers, and developed with a jeweller.

Sophie Coiley: Designer Maker

Celebrating vegetables

Vegetables can be as beautiful as flowers.

Alice Clutterbuck: Designer Maker

Adding Purpose and Value to Waste

Shed Skin Products: 'Matter' is a material concept. Matter is a substance which is neither useful nor valuable, meaning often the matter is waste - an often overlooked material is snake shedding. It has distinctive scales, colour and texture, a material which is like no other. It is an exact replica of their original skin, leaving a pattern and pigment. Using this fragile matter, I have created a series of fashion accessories that highlights the potential of this unique, but also wasted material.

Molly Allen: Designer Maker

Circular economy in medical products

Helix Auto-Injector: A simple auto-injector to treat Anaphylaxis in an emergency, featuring an intuitive design and reusable components.

Ben Robb: Product Designer

Pebble Soap

Hollie Owen: Designer Maker

Sort-Flow Desk

Observing that there are two types of office workers - sorters or pilers - Sort-Flow is a desk where you can quickly put aside your filing by sliding them down the slope. Need to display a memo? There is self gripping bar to hang it from. As it is a project working with Herman Miller, Keith chose to have a flash of red underneath the desk, while keeping the work area neutral.

Keith Randall: Product Designer

Reuse waste around us

A range of everyday items made from workshop waste.

Dan Wu: Designer Maker

Melted forms

Beautiful exploratory forms when pipes give in to heat under compression.

Jordan Edwards: Designer Maker

Tactile Alarm

Can an alarm clock be more satisfying to use? A project to explore how tactile and sonic senses can extend product life.

Nathan Snell: Product Designer

i-Glo new-born light

I-Glo is a visual stimulant for new-borns. Aimed at 0-12 months, the five changeable domes allow for the light to adapt as a baby’s eyesight develops. For the first 10-12 weeks, when a baby can only see black and white, high contrast patterns, a striped opal dome will be used as it has been proven that black and white contrasts register powerfully on a baby’s retina and sends the strongest visual signals to their brain; the stronger the signals, the more brain growth and the faster the visual development. An orange dome will then be used in the next 2-3 months as a child starts to slowly engage with different hue tones. The red dome will be used as a night light, as red is the only colour that does not affect the melatonin in the eye, therefore will not impact a baby’s sleeping pattern. After three months, the green dome will be used as a stimulant, the colour green is beneficial in terms of boosting a baby’s overall mood and happiness. Similarly, the blue dome will be used during the day as a stimulant.

Jenna Bagnell: Product Designer

Unattended is Unsafe: Anti-Spiking Straw

My final major project is surrounding the growing issue of drink spiking. Drink spiking has risen by over 100% in the last four years causing severe damage to the victims. I have designed a paper straw that aims to reduce the impact of drink spiking by allowing users to test their drinks for harmful substances. This working in conjunction with the Spike Aware campaign to spread awareness on drink spiking.

Marcus Flook: Product Designer

Weely Good

I believe that design should be accessible to all, not only the ability to design and mold our own world around us but also the objects that make up our environments. My work focus’ on interaction and engagement with objects, this stems from a belief that the objects we engage with should be understood and not merely used. From understanding stems comfortability and play which leads to fun. As a designer I create objects which channel play and creativity into the world we engage with daily. The Wheely Good range consists of dynamic home furnishing items which allow for an overhaul of their functions. My products create a staging system on which a person can perform their life, with simple additions and manipulations the possibilities of what ‘Wheel Good Furniture’ can be are almost endless. The aim of these objects from initial concept was to travel through life with the user, picking up appendages as they go. ‘Wheel Good’ celebrates and entices the freedom of design from everyone who interacts with it, creating playful moments of exploration, expelling the mundanity of everyday life.

Ben Yeaman: Designer Maker

Adexe Solar Watch shortlist

Shortlisted for the Adexe Solar Watch Competition, Harry's design has a domed solar panel watch face and transparent sides to maximise charging while wearing sleeves.

Harry Hartman: Product Designer

Fluid Wood

A range of furniture and lighting exploring flexible solid wood.

Huw Evans: Designer Maker

Alternatea

Alternatea explores a potential future of the pharmaceutical industry, asking what are the alternative solutions to over the counter medicines? The tea set celebrates the ritual of tea ceremonies and traditional medicine showing an inconvenient alternative to over the counter medicines. The project also proposes a convenient form of this plant based alternative though rice paper tea capsules.

Finlay McKinnon: Product Designer

Textured Wood

A range of furniture that explore textures as a desirable feature.

Cara Findlay: Designer Maker

Home Working Timer

Looking for a higher efficient lifestyle way when working at home? This domestic timer could be a support device to manage your home schedule consciously.

Weigang Jin: Product Designer

Products for our Society

Products that challenge how society is living within the hedonic cycle. These products are designed to enhance activities and interactions with others, whilst maintaining the connection to what is important in life, for example a habitable environment and happiness. I have focused specifically on the development of sustainability within British culture. I am intrigued how sustainable thinking may affect the value of products, and how this may influence the economy and therefore culture.

Eleanor Pickin: Product Designer

Little Oasis

I am a practically minded designer who takes satisfaction in seeing projects come to fruition. After graduating, I aim to start a career path that allows me to address social and cultural issues in an impactful way. I aim to pursue opportunities which give the best chance to infl uence and impact `real world issues while building my professional skills. From the beginning of my third year at Plymouth, I wanted to undertake a project tackling one of many urgent ecological problems we face. I honed in on declining pollinator populations, with up to 75% of food crops relying fully or in part on animal pollination. Through research, I discovered the largest problem faced is habitat loss globally. The UK has lost over 97% of wildflower meadows since the 1930s. Wall flower was created, aiming to reintroduce wildflowers. Vertically mounted and small enough for any size garden or balcony, these oases’ of wildfl owners and shelter and encourage healthy pollinator populations back into the urban wastelands we have created.

Saul Bartlett: Product Designer

Boxed off

A range of hollow frames in steel, wood and Corian, celebrating thin light sources.

Jay Deacon: Designer Maker

Fired Slate

Exploring the amazing properties of slate when it's layers expand when fired.

Hollie Owen: Designer Maker

Forest Echoes

Originally an architectural scale structure, creating what is like under the forest canopy, Alistair will be showing a development in the form of a stainless steel sculpture.

Alistair Long: Designer Maker

Loop Hangers

Shortlisted Young Designer of the Year 2019 by Mix Interiors, Hollie's steam bent hanger is a 2nd year batch-produced design inspired by a visit by Tom Radfield to Plymouth University. They have been on show at the Contemporary Crafts Festival in Bovey Tracey, and Young Furniture Makers Exhibition at the Company of Furniture Makers.

Hollie Owen: Designer Maker

Side Cabinet

Designed to compliment a range of high end fitted interiors, this cabinet uses digital machining to give it's drawer fronts a decorative texture.

Cara Findlay: Designer Maker

Micro-fibre Washing Machine

A Domestic Washer that collects micro fibres, then potentially produces products directly from it, and asks questions about how to recycle in bulk.

Ashley Price: Product Designer

Corian Lights

Moving on from his rectangular frame lights, Jay's new range features circular rims with recessed LEDs in Corian, balanced on solid timber bases. They can also be sat upright or wall-hung. Jay's Corian are off-cuts from a local kitchen bathroom company in Plymouth, each piece is warmed to 160°C and then hand wrapped over formers.

Jay Deacon: Designer Maker

Melting tubes

Beautiful exploratory forms when pipes give in to heat under compression.

Jordan Edward: Designer Maker

Shield Raincoat

Made from leftover festival tents, this waterproof jacket is uniquely light in weight and has a hood lined with sleeping mat sponge which acts like a pillow for snoozing.

Nathan Litchfield: Product Designer

Reuseable Inhaler

Addressing the need for the NHS to reduce landfill, this is an inhaler designed to be refillable, washable and eventually completely recyclabe. Ross has developed a child-friendly cartridge system, complete with working demo using 3D printing.

Ross Waterton: Product Designer