Maitlan Brown
Industrial Design, 2021
As a young designer, I am deeply passionate about creating aesthetically pleasing solutions to the wants and needs of many different people. Finding solutions to problems facing society and making something that will positively impact its users is what drives me as a designer.
Exploring really interesting, organic and almost sculptural-like forms has been a passion area for me and I seem to employ this in most of my designs.
As a designer I feel passionately about sustainability and environmental responsibilities as these issues continuously arise within industrial design. Aspects of the design such as the purpose, material choice, manufacturing process and benefit to humanity are at the forefront of my design process when developing and creating products.
In addition to my industrial design aspirations, I am currently a professional cricketer in the Australian Women’s Cricket team. Balancing the life of a professional athlete and an industrial designer has provided me with so many different experiences and a wide range of personal skills that I can apply to my design process to help solve solutions.
Selected Portfolio
3D Printed Lounge
This concept surrounds the idea of creating low lying event furniture with the hope of a closed loop process and using the waste from an event to create the furniture. As this is a prototype there is room for exploration of the possibilities of this technology and its commercial applications.
Handmade Leather Wallets
Hand stitched high quality kangaroo leather wallets. Laser cut and hand stitched finished off with leather conditioner to maintain quality and longevity of the design.
Cutlery Set
V LUXE surrounds the idea of creating smaller utensils to slow the eating rate of users, allowing them to reach timely satiation. Reducing food wastage with appropriate serving sizes eliminates the issue of over-expenditure that occurs in restaurants.
Smart Sunglasses
Concept surrounding the idea of creating a pair of smart sunglasses with a build in HD camera to be used to review footage in sporting environments