Daniel Buckland
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Daniel Buckland

Product DesignerNottingham, United Kingdom
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Daniel Buckland
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Daniel Buckland

Product DesignerNottingham, United Kingdom
About me
I am an enthusiastic product designer with a commercial appreciation. Whilst being comfortable working alone I am a proactive team player. My engaging and confident personality enables me to work well with design and management teams as well as clients. A positive outlook and approach, along with being highly organised, helps me work to deadlines.
Projects
  • Project1
    Project1Tennis ball pressurising system
Work history
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    Junior DesignerDelco
     - MalaysiaInternship
    Working for a design consultancy, assisting the managing director in all aspects of the design process. This included research tasks, concept sketches, CAD design, renderings, report writing, creating prototypes, as well as attending client meetings and working with the team both in house and remotely. My key achievements were: • Started and maintained a monthly blog for the business identifying and commenting on specific areas of design interest. • Acted alone on a client’s behalf to discuss brand identity with external design and technical suppliers. • Helped take a design brief for an intelligent hands-free voice activated speaker for the Malaysian market and developed the aesthetic aspect to the prototype stage. • Contributed during a manufacturing visit to agree on material choice, quality and costs for final production requirements. • Worked with an injection moulding company to assist on quality control during the initial production run. • Carried out initial concept designs using sketching, computer aided design and rendering tools to produce a wide range of different concepts for client presentations. • Researched markets including competitor analysis for a wide range of different clients prior to the design process.
Skills
  • Industrial Design
  • Product Design
  • Photoshop
  • Illustrator
  • Model Making
  • Autocad
Education
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    DegreeLoughborough Design School, Loughborough University
     - Loughborough, United Kingdom
    PRODUCT DESIGN TECHNOLOGY 2.1 BSc (Hons) Diploma in International Studies (DIntS) University of Loughborough (Sept 2014- June 2018) FACULTY OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN ENGINEERING TU Delft, Netherlands (Sept 2016 - Feb 2017)