robinowl.com

Designer | Engineer | Artist

Product Design

20+ years experience designing a variety of innovative consumer & medical products. I take great satisfaction in seeing my ideas rolling off the production line.

  • Creative approach to ideating and conceiving new products.
  • Adept at pragmatically balancing aesthetic, ergonomic and functional engineering requirements.
  • Excellent visual communicator; clear free-hand sketches & marker pen renderings.
  • Hands-on prototyping skills; use of 3D printing & finishing, vacuum-casting, hand sculpting, workshop tools etc.
  • Keen advocate of hackathon-style experiments to rapidly create MVP’s.
  • Strong A-Surface modelling skills in SolidWorks and NX (Unigraphics).
  • CMF specification; choosing appropriate colours, materials & finishes, to achieve desired haptics & aesthetics.
  • Some product-related graphic design experience ; creating logos, packaging, adverts, websites, instruction books; using InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, WordPress.

CAD Modelling, Concept Ideation, Electrical Design Engineering, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, Mechanical Design Engineering, Prototyping