CHEN LU

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LIOindustrial design

Mentoke Shooter10 weeks 7 People

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Variation

Model Making

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As a Sponsored class in SCAD, the Marshmellow Fun Company challenged us to design several food related toy guns for the 2012 NY Toy Fair. The Mentoke shooter combines the science of Mentos and Coke, creates a fun game, but also a chance to do scientific experiments. This is my first design experience, and I learned a lot about design process in real world.

Research

Entertaining

Key Elements of Successful Toy/Game

Challenging

Fun

Marketing Stratedgy

Social Gaming

Technolodgy

Life Style

Ideation

Sketch by Marshall Jamshidi

We’ve thought about many ideas around toy guns, targets, ammos and game play, and the client picked several from them. The Mentoke Shooter is one of them.

Prototyping

The first prototype does not work, but we moved on to develop the working functional prototype.

Second Prototype Test video http://youtu.be/XosLiUQJnOw

Variation

Sketch by Yuan Si

After the idea of Mentoke Shooter been validated, we began to develop an attractive appearance for the toy gun.

Model Making

Human Factor

Rapid Prototype & Model Painting

3D Model & Render

We built several foam model to discover the optima size for the toy gun, in order to build the final model in 3D.

Digital model was built in Rhino and rendered in Keyshot.(Model: Yuan Si, Render: Chen Lu)

Thanks to SCAD’s 3D printer, we’ve made the real model in a short time.

Story board by Gloria McAndrew

Game Play

Load Mentos

Load Coke

Shoot

With a Sequential Art student in our team, we could develop great game play scenario vividly.

On the 2012 NY Toy Fair, MFC got 3000 pieces order in the 1st hour.

2012 NYC Toy Fair

MoreBesides Mentoke Shooter, we also developed other two food related toy guns.

Chainsaw

Research

Ideation

Prototyping & Test

4 weeks 2 People

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This is the project for human factor class. The goal of this project is to get comprehension about the human body, tool usability and the injuries could be made by a product, thus to develop designs that are more ergonomic and cause less injuries.

Research

User

Injuries

Anatomy Test

Who are the userHow people use chainsawIn what environment

KickbackVibration White FingerCarpal tunnel syndromeNoise

We asked several people to hold the chainsaw to find out which muscles are involved in the use of the tool

IdeationWe focused on the handle of chainsaw to develop ideas.

IdeationAfter the professor’s feedback, we decided to prototype these four ideas to do the usability test.

A1 A2 A3 A4

B1 B2 B3 B4

Usability TestWe built two saw bodies and four rear handles which can make eight combinations, to test user and find out the best.

Final DesignThe rear handle can works in two positions, based on different scenario.

Material Library For Gulfstream Center of Design

10 weeks 3 People

Research

Ideation

Developing

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The Gulfstream Center of Design is the SCAD building of industrial design and many other majors. To give student a better knowledge of materials, the school are planing to build a material library, with touch screen technology incorporated.

ResearchEnvironment

Persona

LibraryLightingStorageTable Student

ProfessorVisitorSpeakerHandicapped

IdeationFocused on the space, touch screen table, material storage and products.

Ideation

DevelopingWe started to design concepts of the material library and with professor and classmate’s feedback, our concepts kept developing.

Storage room

PhotograPh room

material SamPle room

Collaborative

SPaCe

Coffee Corner

meeting/PreSentation room

Storage room

Final Design

Final Design

Material Sample Room

Collaborative Space Material Storage

Meeting/Presentation Room

ExtEndEd tablE surfacE

u-touch scrEEn

scrEEn housing

lEg supports accEss points

basE

basE door with lock

glass walls, metal corners

glass & metal accents

Metal Wires, cpu, etc.

Plastic

touCh SCreen Stand deSign

MagnEt EMbEddEd in MEtal platE

fingEr groovE for chip rEMoval

lEd light1 at Each cornEr

glass/plExiglass body

qr & bar codE

MatErial stickEr

MEtal platEs for MagnEtically sEcuring chip to wall

MEtal boltssEcurEs MatEral

MatErial saMplE

backsidE opEningcan fEEl MatErial froM both sidEs

material ChiP ConCePt

Product Design in Material Library

http://youtu.be/WHgUlzKKmn8Material Library Video

On-Bed laptop Table

Research

Ideation

Developing

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This is the project of Design in Context class. The require-ment is to build a product mainly with wood and sell it. This project improved my pro-totyping skills, and made me think about the relationship between prototyping and 3D model, and which is better?

DevelopingAfter brainstorming, I decided to make a on-bed laptop table, which is asked for by my friends.

The first idea is a new mechanism that never been used, however it turned out too complicated and not reliable.

To simplify the design and inspired by the Apple smart cover, I decided to move on this direction. The second model works well as a table, but can not be folded.

How to fold?Third and fourth version, trail and error

To make the table collapsible, I made too other models to figure out a good way to fold. However the mechanism is too complicated that it became a puzzle that nobody can fold/unfold it.

Developing

DevelopingStruggling with joints and hinges, the fabric came to me as a hinge. It turned out good result. After two more models, the mechanism is fixed.

Final Product

All models made

Final Product

How to unfold

Final Product

Concept Tank DesignConcept tank design for prac-ticing Rhino, Keyshot and Photo-shop

final touch

Concept Gun DesignConcept gun design for practic-ing photoshop,Solidworks, Maya and Mentalray

Watch video http://youtu.be/or41P81Mp90

1/35 WWII Tanks and Vehicle

Model Making

1/72 Aircrafts

Scale model making is my main hobby since I was 7. I’ve made tons of tanks, airplanes and battleships. Though they are model kits which provide plastic parts, a lot efforts are still needed to make them realistic. Airbrush skills and other after effects are also important to make models look real.

Concept Sketches

Graduate with BE eletrical engineering

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JCB, New Generation Skid Steer Loader Design Design 4th Gen Skid Steer, Research CenteredSCAD, Graduate MentorMentor ID undergraduate studentSCAD, Material Library DesignDesign library for searching material utilizing touch screenSCAD, ID Department Gallery Model MaintainerRepair and rebuild models for ID gallaryMarshmallow Fun Company, Toy Gun DesignDesign three toy guns for 2012 N.Y. Toy Fair

Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD)Master of Fine Art of Industrial DesignShandong University, Jinan, ChinaB.E. Degree of Electrical Engineering

Education

Experience

Honors/Awards

Skills

SCAD Honors Grad ScholarshipIDSA Member-SCAD Student ChapterChinese Utility Model Patent for a tape assistant deviceFirst Prize of Local Scale Modelling Competition

2D: PhotoshopIllustratorInDesignSketchbook

Design: User-Centered ResearchIdea SketchingPrototypingWood Working

3D:RhinocerosAlias DesignSolidworksKeyshot

Motion: Cinema 4DMental RayAfter Effects

Language: English(professional proficiency)Chinese (Native)Japanese(Conversant)

Expected 20132011

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