art/footwear design portfolio 2016

ABOUT MEAs a former athlete, I’ve always understood the value of team building and teamwork as a part of competitive strategy. Problem solving through adversity was fundamental on a daily basis. My first undergraduate experience at Erskine College(SC) was athletically based as I was given a scholarship to play basketball. The institution did not have an Industrial Design education therefore I chose to major in Visual Arts with the hopes of developing key design skills such as proportion, spatial and other drafting basics. Following my experience at Erskine College(SC), I went on to play professionally for a year in Aalborg(Denmark) while also continuing my edu-cation at Aalborg University. I am currently in my 3rd semester majoring in interactive design, where I am applying different skill sets to become a multi-dimensional designer. The purpose of this portfolio is to express the range and development of my design thinking within the past several months following a life of athletics. My goal as a designer is to uniquely mesh the methodologies of actual body and mind experiences.

EXPERIENCE

Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Illustration/Draftsmanship, Leadership Skills, Microsoft Office, Sport and Fitness Expertise, Art History, Art Theory, Mid-Level

C++ / Source Code Programming, Widespread Culture Familiarity

SKILL SUMMARY

BMe Soleciety Master Class August 3rd - 28th, 2015PENSOLE Footwear Design Academy - Portland, OR• Hands-on, four-week, intensive footwear design master class. • Experienced the footwear design process through concept-development, problem solving, material design, networking, marketing, and branding. • One of eighteen footwear leaders selected take a product from concept to completion while developing skills in the areas of leadership and professionalism.

Footwear Designer - Ultimate Athlete Project August 14th - 28th, 2015Under Armour Headquarters/Pensole/BMe - Portland, OR

• Designed a unisex training shoe for a heptathlete/decathlete competing in the 2020 Olympics in Qatar.• Process included consumer profiling, sketching/ideation, material & colorway selection, digital rendering and final product views.• Final concept presented to Under Armour upon completion.

Professional Basketball (Danish Basketliguen) August 2014 - April 2015Aalborg Vikings - Aalborg, Denmark

• Played one season for the Vikings men’s basketball club.• Recruited after playing collegiately for 4 seasons(Erskine College).• Wing/Forward position.

Office Assistant/RFID Engineer June 2010 - August 2013RFID Global Solution - Reston, VA

• Developed and presented a design solution for RFID faraday cages.• Produced model cages/boxes with innovative sealing solutions withholding various data.• Faraday cage design to clarify scanning reads.• Process included measuring, sketching, problem solving, trial initiation, prototyping and product development.

Freight Team Worker/Stocker May 2013 - August 2014Toys R US - Columbia, MD

• Unpackaged freight from delivery trucks upon arrival.• Kept track of merchandise inventory through scan and read processes.• Updated stock availability based on daily inventory counts.• Made products readily available as apart of the morning stock team.

BMe/Pensole(Footwear)

Under Armour Ultimate Athlete

MareVentus(University/Interactive)

Wind Energy Installation

Timberland Option(Footwear)

FN Platform Challenge 2016

PUMA Motorsport(Footwear)

AMG Petronas Lifestyle ProjectArtworkCollection of Fine Arts Coursework

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Selected Projects

The design task was to design an energy responsive training shoe for both a heptathlete and decathlete competing in the 2020 Olympics(Qatar). The solution sought to provide ample training

efficiency by way of enforced fit and maximum flexibility.

CONSUMER

NAME GIA BAEZAGE 26Profession HeptathleteIntrests Hot YogaGoal Worlds greatest Athlete

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NAME GIA BAEZAGE 26Profession HeptathleteIntrests Hot YogaGoal Worlds greatest Athlete

Oli BAEZ NAME26 AGE Decathlete Profession Play-Station Intrests Worlds greatest Goal Athlete

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The final design features a 360 degree multi-flex supportive tongue with an auto-aligned lacing texture to fully support yet also free the athlete to keep them focused on the task at hand.

“That task is being the world’sUltimate Athleteby earning the highest honor at the most prolific event.”

“That task is being the world’sUltimate Athleteby earning the highest honor at the most prolific event.”

Display Board Assets

Final Design

TaskThe given assignment was to create an artistic representation of an invisible phenomena transpiring in nature which should appeal to our senses and evoke an emotional response.

DONG Energy

The 3rd semester was given the opportunity to collaborate with DONG Energy who provided us with measured wind speed, wind direction, wind temperature and pressure data from several locations around Denmark and England.

Dong Energy is world leading in the field of ocean wind and contributes to reduce the CO2 – emission and makes use of Europe’s own energy resources. DONG Energy is also prominent when it comes to converting carbon- and gas-heated power stations to sustainable biomass making heat- and power supply more eco-friendly and flexible.

By using the measured data of the invisible phenomena and combining it with the tools of C++ programming, our goal is to make the invisible phenomena visible.

Problem Statement:

“How can we represent wind in relation to Dong Energy sea mills placed off shore and get the audience to understand the visual stimuli behind its appearence?”

Sketches

Prototyping & Construction

Construction Refinement

3D-Print ModelingPhysical 3D models helped the group establish clear direction in structural form and choice of shape prior to the final construction.

Final Layout

C++ Programming Display

Using AlloSystem as the platform for our C++ source code, the program was visualized with the use of DONG Energy data spreadsheets. The result of the program projected onto the raft to complete the installation. The program was created to com-plement wind and energy motions.

Brandon Bjerrebjerrebrandon@gmail.com

+4531657756Aalborg University

https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandonbjerre

Thank you.