Rover, final model.

This is my final model showing my Rover dog care system in situ, the base is foam core board cut into a circle topped with fake grass, used for scale train sets. The blue sections (frames) are all laser cut, as are the columns,front plates, people, and dogs within each booth. The frames sandwich a section of car body repair mesh hot glue gunned in place, used within the service to allow airflow and separate each dog.

The back panels were also laser cut and painted and the Rover brand applied using vinyl, towards the end of my project i was a bit worried about the crispness of the model but, i think the vinyl really brought it all together nicely. The shade on each booth were made by just cutting canvas material to size and gluing across the edges of each frame welding wire was added to the end to form a handle for each.

Poster

Illustrator and photoshop work, Poster design for village fete.

Rover: Preventing the death of dogs in hot cars.

Here's a little bit more about the project i worked on this year, now university as pretty much finished (apart from actual graduation) My project this year, was 'Preventing the Death of Dogs in Hot Cars.' I addressed this using a combination of research, speaking to Dog owners, contact with the RSPCA, Dog wardens and other stakeholders who had involvement in the issue.


'Rover' was the conclusion of all my work: An outdoor dog care service, which would be run by RSPCA volunteers, ideally at outdoor events and locations identified by animal welfare charities to be problem areas. 
In order to prevent the problem, i concluded that the only way of guaranteeing dogs welfare is to remove the dog from the car, and to provide the animal with the things it needed and their owners thought was important to be kept happy and safe,water, shade a area to roam and most importantly somebody to keep an eye on the dog. 
In order to cover costs there would be a small charge to the owner.The main aim of the service was to encourage the removal of the dog from the car, and offer owners freedom providing a convenient alternative being at the location.



Things i have learnt(at Uni and during the project):


Always speak to REAL people they have the really good insights.(I say this because i have seen pictures off of google of strangers faces in people's projects.)
Always allow extra time for everything, start things early and back things up. (Because things always take longer than expected or go wrong or your USB corrupts and you lose everything...I think this happened to at least one person every project.)
i enjoy all areas of design, but I love illustrator..and sketching.

Rover in situ. Modeled in Rhino, rendered in VRay with some photoshop work.

Storyboard made in illustrator showing key steps of the user and service journey.

Make + Plan Show 2011

Had a fantastic evening at UWE on friday night for the opening of my graduate show. I spoke to lots of lovely and interesting people about my Rover project and lots of people thought it was a good project and that they would use it..which is nice! Also brought lots of nice reduced fabric swatches at the weekend so i can continue sewing things.

An overall view of the show in R block at UWE.

On opening night, me at my booth with my project.

My business cards for people to (hopefully) take away.