2012 Portfolio

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Jonas Lindgren - Student - Masters programme in industrial design Jönköping University - [email protected] - 0732 082756

thesis

Bike/train fusion conceptCan public transport be made more attractive by allowing passengers to bring their bikes on commuter trains? During my master thesis I made an explorative study on this matter.

Jonas Lindgren - Student - Masters programme in industrial design Jönköping University - [email protected] - 0732 082756 Jonas Lindgren - Student - Masters programme in industrial design Jönköping University - [email protected] - 0732 082756

Bike/train fusion concept



Why

Research Analysis

do people take the car instead of the public transportation system?

Car use

“Travel time”“Cargo space”

“Everyone else has one...”“Now that my parents bought

me a driver’s license...”

“I love driving my car”“I can go wherever I want, whenever i want”

Instrumental values

Affective values

Social factors

I started the thesis with a litterature study on the topic of which factors that affect peoples choice of transportation system


Whenwould a bike/train traveler arrive?

car

todays public transport

bike/train fusion

the bike/train fusion does not beat the car in travel time. but add a few minutes of congestion or time spent finding a parking and they are pretty even. compared to todays public transport, a train designed around bikes would save hours every week for todays public transport users

I then invented a fictional company on the island of Hisingen, Göteborg Sweden, and defined three personas representing fictional employees at the company, and looked at their individu-al travel times by car, public transport, and bike/train combination travel



Howwould we best store bikes inside a train?

identify unused potential. this volume in trains serves no purpose

could it be possible to implement a car seat-like leaned-back seat to save space inside trains?

no. could not solve problem with stepping in/out from seats

generating different concepts for sitting above a bike. if an area is too small, look at the volume!

brainstorming different ideas on where to place passengers and bikes

An example of my way of solving a problem


the final solution is a wall mounted seat above a bike stand. the seat is accessed through a small ladder on the wall

beside the seat, above the bike stand, a storage area for bags etc is placed. this storage area can be transformed into a double-seat when no bike is stored below

the bike seat concept is visualized further in the animation I made to present my thesis. it can be viewn online at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31bQmXZHrrE


Fitness product stylingDuring my thesis semester I helped two private entrepreneurs develop and visualize their ideas on a fitness product to increase their chances to sell the concept. I can not explain the function of the concept in public.


UAV Helicopter formHow do you create a form that is at the same time aggressive enough to communicate a military tension, but still able to be repainted for the civilan market?

In collaboration with Swedish aviation company CybAero, the students in my class searched to find forms for their unmanned reconnaissance vehicle, based upon the companys current skeleton plat-form. Their main customers today and the near future are military investors, but the aim of the company is to broaden their market to include civilian applications such as coast guard activities and fire fighting


This car seat concept is a technical development from todays car seats with an extendable leg rest

On a metal frame, five dynamic metal springs are attached. The springs can slide along the metal frame

A medium density foam is attached to each spring, providing a comfortable volume for the legs

A thin long leather sheet surrouds the foam cush-ions. The cushions can slide under the leather sheet

A hard plastic shell encap-sulates the metal frame

When the user activates leg extension, the foam cussions slide forward. This moves the leather sheet forward, pulling up leather from below the seat (red field)

To add volume and com-fort to the seat, two soft low density foam cush-ions are attached to the plastic shell. The leather sheet moves freely under the two cusions

Photoshop sketch of the final concept

Extendable is king

Car Seat ProjectTo apply theoretical knowledge from a course in ergonomy and the science of workspaces, we ran a project with Volvo Cars Interior Design to solve problems related to their customer experience of the current interior environment of Volvo cars


Examples of results from marker workshop about visualizing different materials

Photoshop renderTo deepen my understanding of the Volvo form language, a highly detailed A3 size Photoshop rendering of a Volvo V60 was made in the introduction of the pro-ject. The method used was to first outline the contours of the car from a photo ref-erence and then applying layer over layer of digital paint to visualize the shape of the different parts of the car, and the light characteristics and reflections of the different materials. Every pixel drawn by hand in Photoshop

Volvo Form StudyWhile the Car Seat project was quite technical, I took the chance to warm up with a weeks car sketching and trying to catch the shapes of a Volvo V60


Future Caravan ProjectIn the search for a new market for Swedish caravan company Cabby I developed a concept of a mobile home ready to meet an unpredictable environment

CARAVAN CONCEPT 2030

The main idea of the concept is to use the caravan as an energy storage. A big volume in the front of the caravan is dedicated for battery storage and the idea is that the caravan is normally connected to the electricity grid, assur-ing that the batteries are fully charged. When the user decides to leave society, the caravan has all energy it needs to run its integrated systems for a while. And if the batteries are running low, the last energy could be used to power an electric car to transport the caravan to a recharge facility

In case of an upcoming flood, the Cabby customer can safely move its mobile home to safe grounds and wait until civic functions are restored

The front of the caravan is angled down 30 degrees to ef-ficiently absorb sunlight in the northern- and southern hemi-sphere where the sun does not reach its zenith. Another point with this design feature is to create a smooth transition between the car and the caravan, which drastically increases aerodynamic perfromance compared to flat-front caravans

Nine curved solar cell panels of a total area of 20 m^2 covers 360 degrees around the caravan to assure that the batteries are charged from sunrise to sunset. Cab-by polyurethane system maximizes thermal insulation to keep the caravan warm at a minimum energy cost



Future Caravan InteriorOne part of the caravan project was to create a design proposal for the interior of the cara-van. Being shocked about how homogenous the current caravan interiors are in europe, I decided to do something clean to tempt a younger audience

A big storage area folds down from above the beds, saving space and utilizes a vol-ume that hard to use for anything else because of the angled front of the caravan



Caravan fair at ELMIA Visit at Cabby factory Caravan user study Definition of 3 concepts Decide to work on solar cell concept

Concept refinement Form study in clay Rough layout of interior space

Alias modeling of exterior Rendering of exterior

Modeling of physical model Final renders of Alias model Final presentation at CabbyRendering of interior model

Detailed sketches of interior layoutFuturistic interior sketch phase Alias modeling of interior Color trend analysis at IKEA

Detailed photoshop visualisation of white caravan interior

Research future environment

First ideation and sketch phase

Photoshop rendering materials

Battery storage

Bedroom

Roomsplitter

Kitchen

Bathroom

Working desk

Process of caravan project


LED 1 lights up the post sorting shelves, which contain infor-mation about who and which companies that are located at a certain house/adress.

LED 2 lights up the mail the post-man is currently holding and reading, without any risk of glare. It is important for a postman, who handles around one thousand postal items per day, to see the adress well.

When angled, LED 1 can be directed towards the postmans table where the mail man at the end of the workday investigates postal items with incorrect adress informa-tion, deceased/moved away recipients etc

Technical details and explanation of the luminaire:

Post office luminaireBased on the working area of a postman sorting mail, this luminaire increases visability for the user and saves energy by automatic light intensity control and presence sensors


SPIF CompetitionFor Svensk Plastindustriförening’s competition A Beautiful Garden, I made an entry together with a class mate of mine. Our concept was a bird-feeding sculpture with a solar cell and a wind mill that would collect energy used by LED’s to light the sculpture up at night


We didn’t win the competition, but we had a lot of fun ideating the concept over the week-end we spent on the project and I like the meeting of “middle eastern shapes” and clean industrial surfaces

SPIF Competition


Human factors applicationDuring my last university year I helped three mechanical engineering students to enhance their first class air plane seat concept with sitting ergonomic measurements and functions.

Their idea was to create a concept of a seat that would encap-sulate the traveler in case of fire, hence the egg shape. (That was not my idea..!)

My job was to give their seat concept a face lift to reach a visual impression of a first class seat, and to give the seat a shape that would allow proper body support and allow good adjustability.


3D Visualization skillsI use Autodesk Alias Automotive to create my final project proposals for maximum control of shapes and surfaces. Through my master I have generally been using Luxion Keyshot to render the alias models. However I started self studying 3ds Max in 2012 and Keyshot suddenly appeared horribly limited, like eating with a knife, only.

Alias model of the Tron LIght CycleOriginal design by Daniel Simon for Disney Enterprises inc

Washout effect

Alias model of the Apple iPhone 3G


3Ds MaxDuring my last semester I self-studied 3d Studio Max, mainly because I wanted to present my thesis project with an animation. What I also found was that this software can create almost anything when it comes to photo realistic computer generated imagery. Here is an example of how beautifully it handles direct and indirect light bounces

3ds


ID Sketching skillsMy industrial design sketching method is heavily based around ball point pen sketches by hand. I have basic skills in applynig marker ink and coloured pencils but i prefer to scan my ballpoint sketches into Photoshop to apply colour and materials digitally


Examples of traditional and digital artwork


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project details

Tjena!

My name is Jonas and I decided that I want to work with product development a few years ago. After around one year at Chalmers Mechanical Engineering I realized that as an engineer, I would not be able to do the kind of work that I wanted to do. So I moved.

To Skövde. Three years of engineering combined with basic courses in industrial design. Good thing: I learned alot about materials, manufacturing and was introduced to the creative process. Bad thing: almost no time to sketch. Engineering exams all over and little focus on the creative stuff.

Jönköping. Two year master in Industrial Design for students with an engineering background. Most courses involve a company and a new design related project. The education is centered around a design studio where all students run their own projects at their own desk.

I consider myself to be well suited for the industrial design profession, I’m creative by nature, blessed with an artistic vein in the family, and I have an interest in everything technical.

However, the two sharpest knives in my box are surface design and visualization/CGI. And the smoothest spoon is that I’m a humble group worker.

Thanks for your time! And feel free to contact me, details belowYours sincerely//Jonas

Industrial Design Portfolio

Jonas Lindgren

EDUCATION Chalmers University 2005 - 2006

University of Skövde 2006 - 2009

Jönköping University 2010 - 2012

SS Arkansas Björkö 2005

Posten AB 2009 - 2010

Brukbar Design 2012

Kroppskultur 2012

Jönköping school of engineering 2012

Five year program in Mechanical engineering

Bachelor in Design Engineering

Masters programme in Industrial Design

Fisherman, chef, cox

Computer skills

Analogue Design Skills

Adobe: Photoshop, Indesign

Sketching: 2D / Perspective, Rendering

Autodesk: (NURBS Suite) Design/ Surface /AutomotiveAutodesk: 3Ds Max visualization/animation

Physical modeling: Foam freehand/traditional workshoptools/smaller CNC machines, Painting, Clay

Jönköping Borgarekassa och Bjuggska Fonden

I-19 Boden Norrbotten Regiment 2004-2005

Scholarship of year 2011

Communication/Light infantry group leader

Microsoft: PowerPoint

Postillion (+10 summers&winters)

Surface design consultant

Industrial design/CGI consultant

Surface design/CGI/ID consultantAirplane seat research project

Discovers industrial design. Quits after 1 year

QUALIFICATIONS

WORK EXPERIENCE

AWARDS

MILITARY

2012 Portfolio

Documents

masters programme

car seat

biketrain traveler

todays public transport

public transportation

bike stand

storage area

wall mounted seat