Tanja Tiilikainen

 
  Product family for Leonardo collection - a product design process  
  Product Design   2450/2007
 
 
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The topic for this final project with thesis was a product design project for Leonardo, an internationally successful glass and giftware brand, owned by the German design company Glaskoch B. Koch jr. GmbH + Co. KG. The goal of the project was to design a product family that would fit into the style and production methods used in the Leonardo collection and would have the potential to reach mass production. Research into Leonardo’s business profile as well as an analysis of product availability and features of the product collection were the basis of the design process. The goal of the product analysis was to determine the main product characteristics of the brand and interpret them through the eyes of a designer. Based on the results of the analysis, the style of the current Leonardo collection comprises of experimental forms, trendy surface structures, vibrant colour schemes and open approach to the characteristics of glass. The results of the analysis are based on a study of bowls, serving dishes, vases and candlesticks from the Leonardo collection. The design brief defining the appearance, function, production methods and user group for the design product family using Leonardo’s business profile resulted from the product analysis as well as the designer’s own interpretation. Through interpreting the company’s phrase ‘Inspiration for modern living in quality and emotion!’, the design brief situates the product family to be part of a youthful, modern consumer’s home. The report portrays the stages of the design process of the new product family followed in co-operation with the company. The process is portrayed starting from the designer’s initial product ideas continuing to the options chosen by the company and through further development to the final product samples produced by the company. The results of the work are hand-made prototypes made by the designer as well as product samples produced at Leonardo factory. These product samples may proceed to industrial production and may possibly be added to the Leonardo collection for the spring of 2008.

 
  Keywords: Leonardo, glass, product design, product analysis, product family, prototype, bowl  
  Right of use: To be studied in the place where deposited. Can be freely copied in the place where deposited.  
  Number, file/product, number of pages:
2450:1 Folder A4 Report ( 75 pages)
 
  Other parts of the work and where deposited:
2450:2 Prototypes produced by the designer Tanja Tiilikainen (3) In the author’s possession 2450:3 Samples produced by Leonardo(3) In the author’s possession