Marybeth LeJeune Industrial Design Portfolio

Goodbye Pork Pie Hat

The inspiration of this project came from Charles Mingusʼ instrumental jazz piece entitled Goodbye Pork Pie Hat. The requirements of the project consisted of obtaining an object that embodied the music. The object was also required to hang from the ceiling.

Fashion Show

The intent of this project was to construct an outfit inspired by Charles Mingusʼ instrumental jazz piece Goodbye Pork Pie Hat. The outfit was required to have the same design methodology that was used in the hanging project.

FREE YOUR MUSIC Enjoy all of your music anywhere you go

FREE YOUR MUSIC Enjoy all of your music anywhere you go

INSPIRATIONThe scheme of this project was to design a computer speaker that embodies the design language of a designer that is not associated with product design. The source of my inspiration was from Chicken Point Cabin which was designed by the architect Tom Kundig. The cabin was designed to adapt to its surroundings; just like I wanted my speaker to adapt to the needs of a typical college student.

CompatableA�ordableInnovativeCrisp Sound Lightweight FunctionalDurablePortable

DESIGN CRITERIA The design criteria is based o� of the requirements that a typical college student would like in a laptop speaker. The main focus of the speaker was to be durable enough to widthstand constant transportation while at the same time producing clear, crisp sound.

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Most computers come equipped with built-in speakers; however, these speakers tend to produce low-quality sound. This is why many desktop and laptop owners opt to use external speakers with their computers.

of the people surveyed are satis-�ed with their built-in speakers.

14.7% WHO IS ACTUALLY SATISFIED WITH THEIR BUILT-IN COMPUTER SPEAKERS?

Find that external speakers do not produce loud

enough sound.

Find that external speakers are not easily portable.

Find that external speakers are not durable enough to

transport.

Wireless speakers lose connection to the device if they are more than a few feet away. Also, they lack the raw power to produce high quality sound.

The weight of the clip-on speakers can cause the laptop screen to fall down. This makes it impossible for the user to e�ciently use the computer screen.

Speakers that are designed to be listened to from the front loses sound quality from other angles.

Folds to fit inside a bag

Open and closes to protect speaker

Back of speakers connect together

Stand flips

Stand folds

Back connects

When not in use the stand will close to protect the speaker

Use a kickstand to the support speaker

Lever allows stand to open and close

Kickstand will fold up inside of the speaker when not in use

Place the kickstand in one of the notches to point the speaker in different directions

Aluminum speaker grill

Light oak solid wood housing

Compression springs for locking mechanism

Airbrushed aluminum stand/ Speaker cover

Speaker

Aluminum speaker mountAluminum housing to hold locking mechanisms

Aluminum guide for springs

Aluminum handle with locking mechanism

Metal couplings to guide lock and springs

Cut outs for lock to fit into

OBSERVATIONPublic events and festivals often create a huge amount of waste. Whether it’s a music festival or community event, when people come together lots of waste tends to be left behind. When recycled, these materials can be a valuable resource. By encouraging recycling activity we can preserve natural resource, save on land�ll charge, and signi�cantly improve the public’s perception of the event.

RESEARCHIn Louisiana, there are over 400 festivals that occur wach year. If we could combine the e�ects of bene�tting people, planet, and pro�t to south Louisi-ana festivals, we could really achieve something big.

L O U I S I A N A

S E A F O O DF E S T I V A L

SYSTEMOur system originated in a sponsored studio with the help of local entrepreneur Robert Guercio. We had the vision of collecting the recyclable goods from the various festivals in south Louisiana, take those goods and process them for �nancial gain, and to educate the community on the bene�ts of recycling.

INSPIRATIONTrash can or recycling bin? The ambiguity between the shapes and funsctions led us to outlawing the word “trash can” from studio use. We quickly realized in order to be successful we would need to start with visual preceptions. We looked for inspiration in many areas to make our result more e�ective. We needed to make our recycling vessels engaging, e�cient and actionable.

CAN ROLLCardboard was not the ideal material for the job.. BUT it was!! We had a week to fabricate the models if we wanted to gather essential informa-tion from Festival Acadien. Essentailly we made full scale test models and if they failed...we could recycle the content.

We installed the vessels with high hopes and lofty exspecta-tions. A lot of the decisions we made were estimated guesses. The only solid knowledge we knew was where the music and venders were.

PLINKOWhen observing the Can Roll at Festival Acadien we noticed that the vessel blended in with the ground and was frequently over looked. The improved “Plinko” game was made by trans-forming the Can Roll vessel. We already knew that the use of recyclable material was a bonus but reusing a vessel to make another vessel was the icing on top of the cake.

The “Plinko” game was now eye level and painted white to pull even more attention. This vessel allowed the user to have varied levels of interaction.

The population in attendance at the festival is very similar to the population demographic of Lafayette itself. One thing the graph doesn’t state is that the younger crowd increases on Friday and Saturday nights. Another surprising fact is that a large amount of attendees are repeat visitors, many of which don’t live in Lafayette.

Attend Every Year

Every Other Year

Once every 5 Years

First Year

Festival International was voted Best World Free Music Festival in the About.com WorldMusic Reader's Choice Awards! For this event we had to be very intentional about our location. We analyzed the tra�c �ow and predicted where patrons would congregate.

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8%

15%

39%

23%

<18 yr 18-27 yr 28-35 yr 36-50 yr +50 yr

Craft Booths

Food Booths

Our Vessel

The can crusher is the de�nitely the face of the pRE:cycling initiative. We got �nancial aid from local business, recycled cycles. We had to work the client up to this prototype by proving that interactive recycling is a promising endeavor.

Like the other recycling vessels we ran into issues with the can crusher as well. The following instances were a few factors that we didn't plan for: tall boy beer cans instead of the traditional 12 oz, cans getting placed in vertically instead of horizontally, excessive torque placed on the bottom bracket, and bbq ribs.

From former festivals we learned that simple labels are good. But at times the public needed more information.

We started the “keep it classy” cam-paign weeks before the festival. The goal was to bring attention and educate the public about our e�orts.

To stay under budget and with our goal of minimal waste we designed our vessels around existing trash/ recycling receptacles.

Plastic cups were always a problem, they were abundant but less abun-dant than cans. So we attached metal cylinders.

To increase visibility and brand recogni-tion we made a festival character, the pinstripe pelican. We chose the pelican because of its importance to Louisiana.

The �rst part of the week our vessels did well for two reasons. They were more attractive than the other vessel and we had informed volunteers changing the bags.

The new volunteers that came in didn’t know that each vessel required two trash bags. Even worse, multiple bags were torn by the cup holders. In the end, the more simple

design was more e�ective.

As the week progressed the amount of trash and recyclables increased exponentially. At times, the amount of discarded goods were so great that the few volunteers couldn’t keep up.

our vessel

traditional vessel

please recycle

ours

Trash to recycle ratioFor every 1 full trash bag we would collect 1/5th bag of recyclables

Based on recyclables that we pulled out of the trash can, and those that we didn’t.

Of all recyclables that were available inthe park, how much did we collect?

The introduction of our vessels increased the collection of recyclables by 10-15%

human capitol

trash available

Of the 57 individuals interviewed 51% noticed our vessels in the

area. While we enjoy the majority, we lost a lot of viewers due to

the density of patrons.49%

51%Only 17% of the interviewed patrons used our vessels.

$950

If we are to do pREcycling again we would make the vessels overly, overly simple. We learned the hard way not matter how good a product is, when a system isn't fully supported, it inevita-bly fails. We would decrease the amount of moving parts on the can crusher and we would like to produce a tangible outcome on site instead of crushed cans.

Conclusion

3,000 cans