RHEON Labs Design
I worked as a designer at RHEON Labs for 2 years. Part of this was a 6-month placement.
Client facing, Internal, speculative and R&D projects.
This page details some of the experiences I had as a designer at RHEON. The
1 Design
2 Product design
3 Design for Manufacturing
4 Post-launch support
1 Concept Design
The first stages of design involve conceptual design. Conceptual design work may be speculative product design at the beginning of the development process, but it might also involve solving engineering challenges, as shown here.
I've produced numerous rough models for visualizations to present to potential clients and investors. These models are created quickly and refined over a few hours to a few days. I use rendering to visualize them, including diagrams to highlight features and benefits, and contextual visualizations to demonstrate the final product's appearance.
2 Product Design
I use traditional CAD to create refined and production quality 3D models. What separates me is my fluency in computational design, to create a huge number or designs iterated with different parameters, Or work with complex inputs to make data driven designs. Trained less experienced members of the team and helped others by optimizing and refining others scripts. Expertise in meshing in particular.
3 Design for Manufacturing
I worked multiple manufacturing methods. Experience with additive manufacturing, 3D printing metal tooling with complex manufacturing limitations, CNC machines tooling using different constraints. Designing bolsters and more in-depth injection molding methods. I had the responsibility of approving tools made by less experienced colleagues.
Experience with heat press manufacturing. Worked directly with tier 1 manufacturing in UK, China and Southeast Asia. I understood and resolved complex manufacturing challenges.
Some experience working with quality control issues. Tracking shrinkage problems and part defects. Supported client all the way up to launch on multiple products.
4 Post Launch Support
Examples led optimization of margins on highest volume product by analysis of tooling and injection process. Saved approximately 50k that year, increasing margins by 5%.
IP Rendering
Above are IP drawings, used in a patent of a design with Adidas. This demonstrates the generation of technical drawings of 3D garments. These were made from 2D flat fabric patterns.
These 3D garments were created using Marvelous Designer. 2D Patterns were wrapped onto a 3D model.