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Ahmet USLUindustrial product designer
Birth date: 09.10.1985Nationality: Turkish
Cell phone:2 +46 738034405Cell phone: +90 5052511168
Mail: [email protected]
Adress: Förlikningsvagen 84145 60 Norsborg
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Experiences: January 2010 – June 2010 Jacob Jensen Design (http://www.jacobjensendesign.com) Product Design, Product Design, Product Design Manual June 2009 – January 2010 Arman Design (http://www.muratarmagan.com/eng) Product Design
November 2008 – May 2009 Art - Spa Concept Design (http://www.art-spa.net) Interior design, Spa design, Architectural design
January 2008 – August 2008 Basak Atalay Design Office (http://www.basakatalay.com) Interior design, Fair stand design, Brand identify
August 2007 – September 2007 DesignUM (internship) (http://www.design-um.com) Product design, (Promotion pen project)
October 2006 – December 2006 Delta Furniture (http://www.deltamobilya.com) Preparing catalogs for furniture series
July 2006 – September 2006 VESTEL Digital (internship) (http://www.vestel.com.tr) Digital products: Laptop, Plasma TV
Achievements: February 2009 Silverline Kitchen Design Competition - 1st Prize June 2008 ISKO Jean Design Competition - Winner Award February 2008 Erasmus Multidisciplinary Workshop (Belgium)
Languages: Turkish Native language
English Fluent
Education: June 2004 Izmir Anatolian High School Graduation June 2007 Istanbul Technical University - Industrial Product Design BA Graduation Now Konstfack - Industrial Design Master Formgiving Intelligence
Skills: Hand Sketching Computer Sketching Hand Modelling Computer Skills Autodesk Alias Studio Rhinoceros 3Ds Studio Max 3Ds Studio Max (V-Ray) Autocad Solidworks Autodesk Maya Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesign CorelDraw Macromedia Flash Macromedia Dreamweaver Microsoft Office ToolsProgramming Languages C/C++
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Example of interior designs
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zap!new way of entertain with music
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zap!new way of entertain with music
Human, as a social creature, wantto share their feelings with others.Listening music is more artistic way toshare similar feelings. So many peoplewant to share the music that has aspecial meaning for them.
You can easily see couples that use thesame headphones by one per each.Some people request radio or T Vprograms to play their favorite songs or in concert people get in to same mode by sharing the music.
inspiration
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zap! is designed to improve the social side of listening and sharing music by a legal way. Today, almost everyone has a MP3 player and/or USB disks. People can plug their music devices into zap! and play their personal songs in a social environment. Thus, listening to music activity has a new aspect that provides sharing and mixing all emotions.
zap!new way of entertain with music
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AV input to use product as a loudspeaker
Colorful LED modules arranged as a circle around the product
Touchscreen and zap! button
AV output to use externalsound systems
AC Input
Sterio speakers
Adjustable cord lenght
AC Adaptor
Seven colors of USB ports
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Use scenario
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Set up your zap! Welcome friends to party Connect your friends’ mp3 players and USB discs to zap!
Tag your friends with colorful wristbands that represent their
USB color
Push touchscreen of the zap! to choose a song randomly from the
connected devices and plays it.
Colorful ambiente light around the zap! shows the owner of the MP3 device that plays the song at that
moment
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Also you can connect your zap! to a computer and organize your
music lists by a simple program.
- copy all song tomy computer ....- upps zap! don’t allow to copy songs
Records can be listened but not copied by zap!. So it prevents illegal sharing of copyrighted
music records.
You can play several games with zap!. Like, when your color start to
glow by playıng your song, you have to dance or your song will be
zapped!
The speakers located to the both sides of zap! will improve the
efectiveness of 3d sound
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Spesifications
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Computer Interface
Also Zap! connects to a computer by using one of it’s USB ports. Computer reach all the songs in every USB to organise the playlist. Also it probable to add songs from computer.
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change to zap mode
change to normal mode
menu button
progress bar
indicators that show which usb slots are using
next songprevious song
song title and time
- Two listening mode Normal mode for personal use, zap mode is for group-Background color of touchscreen screen change according to the ambient color
volume
volume and progress bar can be adjusted easily by a �nger move
repeat on/o�
volume limit on/o�
shu�e on/o�
play / pause button
zap mode Normal mode
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Product Interface
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Technical DetailsThe exterior surface of product is made form ABS plastic and produced with injection moulding. It is not necessary to use a new technology for technical properties. Data transferring is supplied by USB interface. Product is sold with a CD or USB which contains the programs and drivers so device can be identified by computer.
Adaptor Product
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OutConfortgarden furniture for heating, cooling and lightning
MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO PRODUCT INNOVATION WORKSHOP
SOCRATES INTENSIVE PROGRAMMEKortrijk, Belgium
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OutConfortgarden furniture for heating, cooling and lightning
Intensive Program:From 8 different countries 120 students gathered for a workshop.
The workshop has two parts.In the morning lectures international experts instructed the students in Innovation Management Techniques
In the afternoon, students use these techniques to create real-world projects.
Project and Company Information:Umbrosa is a European leader in shading products (Umbrella’s, Sails, …).
Which sells both to the consumer market and the contract market (Hotels, Restaurants, …)
Company inform our group to create a product to solve three additional needs,These three needs are
- The need for lightning, for evening.- The need for heating, for the evening and the “after season”.
- The need for cooling, for the day.
All three needs are currently being met with different systems or appliancesLightning is being solved in the traditional way, although the introduction of LEDs is rapidly finding its way.
Heating is being solved in traditional by either electrical heaters or gas heaters.Cooling is a “recently” introduced aspect and is being solved by the spraying of water cloud with a high pres-
sure system.
The solution must be the combination of all systems in one product.
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Choosed systems to solve problems:Lighning: LED’s Heating: Heatstrips Cooling: Water Misting All human needs that are mentioned at the
brief has taken in to consideration individually. Priority of the product is comfort and it is solved accordingly to the other design criterias since it’s designed for outdoor.
Lightning:Firstly for the lightning problem there are a lot of different solutions. The ambient is important as much as the lightning so we need some color and dimmable lights. After research and brainstorming it is decided that LED usage fulfils our requests. Heating:Secondly for heating problem we need an ecological and healthy solution. It is chosen from a number of energy sources and heating devices. After studying on these systems the most suitable one is the heating strips.
Cooling:Thirdly for cooling problem there aren’t not too many options so misting is the most efficient option that is available.
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idea sketchesform & function sketches with photoshop and wacom tablet
This product is a stylish confort unit for the gardens.
Combines the three important solutions for heating, cooling and lightning in one product.
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idea sketchesform & function sketches with photoshop and wacom tablet
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The bottom part of the product has two functions. The first function is to make it gain the ability to rotate 360 degrees so the product can be available from any directions. Users choose a place for the product and create a living place around that area. The second function is to provide balance by the storage part where water tank and other system parts are placed.
Lightning system detail
Open position of LED’s Close position of LED’s
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Digital TouchscreenControl of the product is made through a digital touch screen. The usage of the control panel seems like this. First user chooses the function, when the function is touched , the details appear on screen. But the second touch on the function graphic the system brings the main menu back.
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visualizationsentertainment product for music halls
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visualizationsentertainment product for music halls
Project brief is designing a promotional lighting that refers to corporate identity for bars and restaurants.
Miller has been chosen as the company. When Miller’s corporate structure is analyzed, we got the conclusion that it is mainly build on city, music and night.
Considering joyful chemistry of music, led modules located behind the acrylic parts and provide play of light with various color and intensity.
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LMS 1x4 4W RGBA 8Dx50
UNP LEDS
acrylic parts
cover for LED’s
screws
hang up part
place for visual
main skeleton
cover that carriesLED strings
LMS color LED’s LED StringsTechnical details of product
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Instantaneous color and intensity projection by LEDs
Shift by “x” column. x based on the tempo of music and mood of program
Ready for transfering to device
Complex Digital Music Data
A computer program simplifies the digital music data and creates the graph for the led strings. The color of the column depends on the chosen mood.
The main form of the lightning is an abstraction of city profile. The material is acrylic sheets and they are fixed to the main lightning that has the Miller logo on. All the leds which are hidden behind the acrylic profile have different colors and they have different synchronous based on the music.
recUSB integrated pen
Internship project
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recUSB integrated pen
This is a professional work during the DesignUM internship progress.
The theme of the project is to design a plastic product that combines pen and usb function for a plastic promotion products producer. What we have been asked is to place the firm logo to a place that takes attention in an innovative way.
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selected concept
After research and form study three concept work created using Alias StudioTools
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As a part of design process 3d model was made by Alias StudioTools for production
The corporate identity and on/off switch
USBPen
Parts of pen
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Pen Details
rec USB integrated pen
push forward to switch on pen
push white square to close pen
back to it’s original position
Metal End
Spring
Refill
Switch Mechanism
OuterShell
USB
Metal Pipe
MetalClip
Plastic BackTap
DoluBospublic bus concept for Istanbul
Istanbul public bus concept sponsored by TEMSA.
Exhibited in the International Busworld Kortrijk(Belgium) fair.
Group project with Levent Türe and Deniz Uyanıker
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DoluBospublic bus concept for Istanbul
To design a new public bus for Istanbul , at first ,we try to understand the whole city and where we live. Since the city is a metropole it’s our main concern to learn the colors, sounds, patterns and the social structure of residents.
After using all bus lines, visiting all districts and walking every street in this city , we decided to build a concept just like Istanbul which is “contrast”.
Istanbul - City of contrast
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Research
The group divided into the city trying to find some useful information and to understand the structure of the transportation system of Istanbul.
Shortly afterwards ,shot some photos and talked to people and bus drivers to create a problem chart.
All information categorized on an Istanbul map and try to understand the differences between the districts, the effect of the sea, effect of the cultural substructure to the transportation and other factors.
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Research results
After the research process the resulting data has been reviewed in detail, so with this information we decided the concept we agree to work on the word “contrast” because it represents the chaotic structure of the city. Istanbul’s biggest problem about the transportation is the traffic. The most realistic way to resolve this problem is increase the use of public transports. According to the time of distribution of passengers through the day the numbers are too unstable and the bus needs to adapt this imbalance. In the rush hours buses carry lots of passengers at the same time because all the purpose of the passengers during that time period is to reach the point where they have to be. After the rush hours the bus has to adapt this new situation and the priority will change from creating wider areas to the comfort of the passengers.
DoluBos public bus concept for Istanbul
fold the opposite seats normal order of seats
if there is no seats
nearly %140 increase of passengers
Solutions for the seat problem and brainstorming how to increase the number of passengers when needed.
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44cm 115 cm
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DoluBos public bus concept for Istanbul
The final concept
Illustrations about two different adaptation of the bus.
When the seats fold up passengers should use these seats to put their staff like bags, coats vs...
folded seats
Technical gear
Folded positions of seatsUnfolded positions of seats
Interior structure and handles Lightningof bus and mechanics of seatsunfolded seats
Layered details of interior concept
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Seat detailsAnimations about
mechanical details of seat
Bulges from both sides of the seat is use for lean head when you sleep
Back
screenshot from folding animation of seats
screenshot from seat position lock systems animation
screenshot from seat position lock systems animation 2
Top
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The top of folded seats use for storage
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RFID
In the morning hours the number of passengers
who need to use bus is increased
The seats fold down and move up so the bus capacity increases
During the journey the seats at the top becomes storage shelfs for bags or other staff
that people can place
Because the high capacity of the bus passengers has a choice to get in and get out
from any door not just from front to backBy the help of RFID technology everybody has a ticket card to identify their presence
when someone ttry to enter the bus without this card there will be a warning
After the rush hours bus driver change the seats to their original possition
So lots of people can sit during the travel
Before going to service driver push a button and the capacity of bus will increase
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Scenario
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Final exterior
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Final exterior
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1/16 scale model of bus
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CLOCKopen office furniture
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CLOCKopen office furniture
Clock’s concept is inspired from the time that we spend to organize our job ambient, the time that we spend to make our surroundings comfortable, the time that we spend on working.
The key word of concept is “flexibility”
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Possible 4 positions of deskThe rotation ability of the desk provide it a great flexibility about the interior
designs and visual esthetic
At the rotation pivot there is a cylider whatnot divided into 4 drawers
The whatnot has a 360 degree rotationaxis so all users around the table can
reach all the drawers
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Rotation concept is the key feature of the concept “flexible”. There are lots of different
usage positions of the desk.
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FITkitchen design concept
Fit is the 1st prize winner of the Silverline Kitchen Design competition
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FITkitchen design concept
The aim of this project is to make oc-cupants use the living area both as livingroom and kitchen at the same time. when they get the product they can convert a part of their living room into a kitchen. It is aimed that all of the kitchen requirements are provided with one product.
inspiration concept
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Sketches
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Product has;
- Drawers with inner lightning and a cooler
- At one side, aquarium has placed as an decorative element
- Consideraring the competition rules Silverline products are use such as oven, kitchen faucet,hood and cooker
- At the top of the product the metal hangers are fixed which are divided and organized by acrylic surfaces.
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Dimensions Details
Back service table
Front backup table
With different covering options the FIT can suit any kind of environment where it is placed.
Professional Work
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Vx700 Validator
Company: VerifoneBrief: Verifone marketing department decided to sell their Vx700 POS trough a new product. They want us to design a payment validator for public busses. Design: After research and get a detailed brief from Verifone, we decided that our most important mission is to design a product with a low production cost. We solve this problem by using aliminium extrusion. Also we found that if we use this technology we can create two moduler part which can be slided into each other. One part is for assembly to the bus, then other main part which contains Vx700, contacless reader and electronic board slided into the first part. If there is any problem with the validator, technical team easily unplug the damaged product and slide into a new one and then take the damaged product to repair.
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KitapBox
Company: TumsasBrief: Designing a vending machine to sell best-seller books.Design: The most important speciality of this machine is it designed not for only books we create a new mechanism to use this machine for any kind of products which has box shape. We made a prototype to solve security and mechanism problems. Also we design esign kinds of covers for advertisement.
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Company: TaksimediaBrief: Advertisement TV for public TAXI’sDesign: Taksimedia is a publicity agency. Most of their works is about advertisement in public transportations. The design brief is about to create a new way of interacting with people. A person who uses taxi for transportation is our target audience. Main goal of this project is to create a interactive space behind the driver in the back seats. Putting lights behind head-rests is obtaining customers to read anything without disturbing the driver. Also I have solved a assembly detail for putting a TV in front of people. User can choose different channels from closed broadcasts. For the next step of this product customers have a chance to access internet with a touch screen.
GezGor TV
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Other projects that is not explained in the portfolio
Glass for martini PestGO styling Elevator lightning project Concept bathroom Hotel Furnitures
Bedroom furniture for disabled people Pocket-watch Turkei Grand Pavois exhibiton stand Istanbul urban planning project Bathroom furniture with wire
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Example of interior designs (all executed projects) Also ask for interior design portfolio
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