Dan Dodds - Curriculum Vitae

Contact

Name Daniel Alan DoddsEmail info@dandodds.co.ukWebsite www.dandodds.co.uk

Employment History

2008 - Current Freelance [in collaboration with Anthony Whittaker and Ben Dodds] Furniture and Installation Designer Designing and building installations and furniture for Swear Shoes and Gogo Philip - 2012 Gogo Philip - Jewellery Showroom and office Cheshire Street, London - 2011 ‘the10space’ - Pop-up shop for Swear London in The Truman Brewery, London - 2011 Six London Design Office and Swear London Showroom - 2008 Installation for Number 22 Carnaby Street, Soho for London Fashion Week

2009 - 2012 Walters and Cohen Architects Part I Architectural Assistant - Worked on buildings mainly in the education sector at RIBA Work Stages A-K 2007 - 2011 Freelance Artist and Illustrator - Artist working on commissions; primarily pen and ink drawings of buildings in Bath

Education

2011 - Current University of Westminster Graduate Diploma in Architecture [RIBA Part II} - Currently in final year DS10 [Tutors: Athur Mani and Toby Burgess]

2006 - 2009 The Bartlett, University College London BSc Architecture [ 1st Class Honours] - 2010 RIBA Forgotten Spaces Design Competition - Commendation - 2009 Deans List - 2007 Bartlett Sessional Prize 2005 - 2006 City of Bath College Foundation Art and Design [Distinction] - 2006 Art Foundation Prize Winner

2003 - 2005 Beechen Cliff School, Bath A Level Maths, Physics, Art, & German [Grades A, A, A, B]

References

Arthur ManiDS10 Tutor, Universtiy of Westminsterinfo@arthurmani.comwww. arthurmani.com

Cindy WaltersDirector, Walters and Cohencindy@waltersandcohen.comwww.waltersandcohen.com

Working knowledge of many CAD programs, and an ability to pick up new software easily.

Software

Rhino 2 yearsGrasshopper 2 yearsVectorworks 5 yearsMicrostation 2 yearsPhotoshop 7 yearsInDesign 5 yearsIllustrator 2 yearsVray 2 years

Dan Dodds - Selected Portfolio

2013 - Harmonograph - Experimental long exposure photographs of harmonographic lines generated using a freely oscillating pendulum. This is part of an ongoing design project exploring consonance and dissonance using physical and digital modelling tools.

Harmonograph

2012 - Kelvin Foam Truss - Experimental lasercut model generated using Grasshopper for Rhino. This is part of an ongoing design project exploring growth within a predefined scaffold

Kelvin Foam Truss

Visualisation - Extended

Render showing an extended version of TETRANote the form is made from 300 modules, showing the potential to extend the project if additional funding is secured

2011 - TETRA was a design proposal for an interactive art installation for Burning Man Festival 2012, exploring tetrahelical growth. It developed out of an exploration of the geometrical work of Buckminster Fuller, and a study of the concept of participation central to Burning Man

For more information see: http://issuu.com/dandodds/docs/dan_dodds_portfolio_111026/1

Modular connection

1:2 scale model - testing connection options including bolts, magnets, and hook and loop systems [bolt option shown]

TETRA

2011 - Swear Shoes Showroom - Designed and arranged construction of display furniture for Swear’s wholesale showroom, as well as designing furniture for the design offices of the parent company Six London. The furniture was constructed offsite using CNC cut plywood connected together using a system of rods in tension and pipes in compression. This project was a collaboration with Anthony Whittaker.

[Academic use only]

Swear Showroom - Old Street, London

2011 - the10space - Designed and constructed an installation made from 1000 shoe boxes to display 10 years worth of shoes by Swear. The boxes were prefabricated into 15 modules held together using post tensioned wires in order to allow for an on-site construction time of one evening. This project was a collaboration with Anthony Whittaker and Ben Dodds

For more information see: http://www.swear-london.com/pag667.aspx

the10space - Dray Walk, London

2009 - Nose to Tail Complex was a the final design project of my BSc at The Bartlatt. It explored Fergus Henderson’s ideas about ‘ Nose to Tail Eating’, and sought to blur the distinction between production and consumption of goods and food. It was exhibited as part of the RIBA Forgotten Spaces competition

For more information see: http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/home/riba-forgotten-spaces/forgotten-spaces-commended-nose-to-tail-by-dan-dodds/5217353.article

Nose to Tail - London

2008 - Selected images from my 3rd year BSc work including an extension to the Natural History Museum of Lubeck into one of its many churches, an installation to go in another of its churches, and a breifcase of observational models of London.

Osteological Museum | Distraction | Observational Models

2007 - Selected images from my 1st and 2nd year BSc work including a 2 metre high 1:20 model of a ‘Book-Crossing Hub’ proposed for a site near Farringdon, London, and a ‘Cheese Making Machine’ designed, built and used as a performative installation to make mozzarella on the streets of London.

Book-Crossing Hub | Cheese Making Machine