Thais Soler: Portfolio

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About me

Thais Soler, 2012

Thais Soler is a Product Design student at Elisava, a well-known design school in Barcelona. She’s taking her penultimate university course while she works as a personal tutor.

Before Thais started the Engineer in Industrial De-sign career, she studied arts for two years at a public high school. There, her interest about de-sign began, and she participated in various activi-ties and participated in a pair of competitions. She feels really proud of the victory of one of them: the design of a floral carpet, which was exposed dur-ing three days in the street.

Meanwhile, Thais Soler entered in a dance group, where they started to call her “nelke”, due to her love of carnations. The most part of the integran-ts where studying photography, graphic design, web design, etc. so she started to learn how to use photoshop and other design programs by herself, feeling inspired by her friends.

But when Thais finished high school, she decided that she didn’t want to do any 2D design, nor post-ers, webs or t-shirts. She realized she want to do something really useful, perishable products, so she went straight to the product design career.Thais still loves all type of manual work, although she can’t do it as much as before because the lack of free time. She draws, paints and writes, likes to sew and she is always trying new tech-niques or creating new pieces just to learn more or to improve.

Nowadays, she is member of AESS, a student as-sociation about robotics. Thais models 3D pieces that the other members of the group will need to their projects and then, they use a rep-rap to print them.

One of her biggest dreams is to be, someday, a design teacher, putting together her actual job with her studies.

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Sketching

Plans and 2D modeling

3D modeling and rendering

Designing a playground

Alarm clock for deaf people

L’Imant: keep in order the desktop

Packaging: Barcelona surreal

Dolly Soap

Mouflé: a bag for winter

Potatoey

Contact

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3D modeling and rendering

Texturing a body work, 2012

Programs: Rhinoceros, VRay, Photoshop

To make these renderings and photomontages , Rhinoceros software was used, along with VRay renderer, in addition to Photoshop for further ed-iting and insertion of shadows on a background model.

In the first image, the racing car was already given and the task was only of texturing with me-tallic materials, specialized for car bodies, in ad-dition to the correct creation and modification of the lights. Then the background was created, the shadows were drawn on the floor and inserted the logo of a famous car firm.

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The picture above shows a photograph within the user interface of a web page. This was obtained from Joseph & Joseph, which brand belongs the juicer that was copied from photographs and modeled in 3D. Along with the lemon that there’s next to it, they’re textured and subsequently in-serted into a marble kitchen, fixing the shadows of the base to provide a greater relationship with the environment. Once this was done, the typog-raphy used in the original Web was imitated, in addition to using original elements of this site.

Joseph & Joseph juicer, 2012

Programs: Rhinoceros, VRay,

Designing a playground

In the next project we were asked to design a chil-dren’s attraction to a public park, in both a formal and a functional level. With this concept, we think about a fun game which motivated the children to work together while they’re having fun: a zip-line. It was designed with stairs on both sides to allow to launch again sat, without dragging the seat to one end of the attraction. The structure was thought to be made of wood and galvanized metal.

The calculations of forcess , stresses and mo-ments were made, having previously measured the lengths of the zip-line. Once its viability was proved, we did a 3D model of the playground with Rhinoceros, program which was also rendered.

Tirolina dobre, 2009

Programs: RhinocerosColaboradores: Javier Arnau

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Alarm clock for deaf people

The mission of this project was to create an alarm for deaf people, omitting the use of any sound system as a way to awake the potential user.

Keeping the comfortability in mind, other ways of making the nervous system react were omitted, such as a temperature difference or a little hit, which would startle the sleeper to awake. It was thought then, about a small vibration, an increas-ing tingling as the time goes by and you do not wake up.

The clock shape is an oval bowl which is adapted to the hand, since the position of the relaxed hand is semi-closed. This fits comfortably to sleep, with-out digging anywhere. The belt would be made of a polymer material similar to silicone, easily adaptable to the geometry of the palm.

The manner of controlling and programming it would be realized by the side buttons, similar to the ones of a wristwatch, as well as the user feels familiarity with the system and the interaction with the device is performed more efficiently and quickly.

Vibrating alarm, 2011

Programs: Illustrator, Autocad

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L’Imant: keep in order the desktop

In small desktops, the material tends to accumu-late on the surface of the table making it impossi-ble to move around comfortably. Such objects are usually pencils, erasers, notes and other material that is used in parallel with the use of computers or other items.

Aimant is a simple magnet system consisting of a rubber magnet, and a series of metal plates which allow leaving the material in accessible placesand less troublesome.

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The first element is a punched plate, embossed, cut and folded. Besides putting objects on it, it allows the storage of smaller objects that can not be put in the front face with the magnetic gums.

The second sheet has just only been punched, cut and folded, and its only function is to engage those elements with magnets on its surface. It has some hollows to avoid that the material slips and fall down the sheet.

The third is the most visually simple, just cut and bent to manufacture it, but the top layer is a sheet of white board that also allows magnets to stick to it, and write notes in the corresponding markers, so it has a double function.

L’imant, 2012

Programs: Illustrator, Autocad

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Contact

Thais Soler

Industrial Designer

686.03.54.70

http://nelkedesign.wordpress.com/