Stuart Kellett

- Part time job whilst working on Product Design BA (hons) Degree.

- Trained to perform all tasks within the store which include Stockroom Operations (including the receipt of deliveries and transferring stock out) , Cash Desk duties (including floats and of the end of day cash counting) and Shop floor duties.

- Developed strong skills working within a team and built great relations with managers.

- Also worked within the Blackpool and Wigan River Island teams.

- Helped to launch the opening of a new store at Middlebrook, Bolton.

o Achieved a First Class Honours grade in every Module of the final 18 months of study.

o Module titles included Design for Industry, Design for Batch Production, Interface Design, Dialogues in Design and Advanced Research Strategies.

o Work was self directed and team based, with Briefs being set by both the University and External clients (Morehouse’s, Prima, Videocon and Alphason).

o All stages of the design process were covered over the three years with constant self-development working on maximising learning in each of the design stages.

o Culmination of Design, Manufacturing, Business and Marketing resulting in professional design realisations.

o Working within both the Studio and Workshop creating strong bonds with fellow students enabling a creative and innovative work environment.

o Interviewed by the creative website Business Boom Bolton with an article being published on their website.

Dissertation (achieved a 70% grade)

“Petro plastics versus Bio plastics. An investigation into the future use of plastics against a background of environmental pressure.”

o Investigation into the stock handling processes within River Island with the focus being on the Delivery Stage within Store. Research was Human Centered, with methods of Primary Research (IDEO research methods) including fly on the wall, photo ethnography, interviews and focus groups with River Island staff.

o Key aspects in the stock handling process were then compared against the River Island Best Stand Practice (Companies Delivery Expectations), where issues were easily identified and a detailed Design Brief could be produced.

o Concepts were generated off the back of the design brief, with a concept being meticulously carried through the development stages taking all aspects of semantics, semiotics and user interaction into consideration.

o The final design was then realised through CAD modeling (Solidworks and Photoworks) with the security tag being designed to be produced out of polypropylene in an 8 cavity twin shot injection mould.

o The security tag project was displayed at the New Designers 2012 show in London and received a great deal of attention from Industrial Professionals and River Island Executives due to its commercial nature, and time and cost saving qualities.

o Alphason approached Salford University with a live brief to produce a TV stand with an RRP of £200.

o Concepts were produced for the company by individual students and presented to the design team from Alphason who picked out a TV stand they wanted each individual to develop.

o The chosen concept was then developed with methods of production taken into consideration. Production methods such as JIT’s, Kanbans, Jigs and shipping costs were applied.

o Final Design renders were produced through Solidworks, Photoworks and presented using Photoshop and Illustrator.

o After presenting my Final Design to the Alphason Design team I was invited to an interview for a two month placement at the company, where I was short listed.

o Moorhouse’s Brewery needed a new portable bar designing for use at beer festivals, which needed to be lightweight and easy to assemble and disassemble. The bar was to have area for stillage of two barrels of beer and have room for at least two Angram beer taps.

o After visiting the Brewery and analysing the current bar used by the brewery, the generation of concepts began, where one of the concepts was further developed.

o A lot of focus in this project was on the POP and POS. The design was developed so that the base of the bar could be transported ahead of the top half of the bar to the festival location ahead of the event. This allowed time for the beer to be in its stillage for the correct amount of time.

- Worked as a waiter at the stadium within the boxes of the reebok stadium