Craig
Montgomery
University College Northampton For sales, commissions and to send comments to the artist click here
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Artist Statement Pic's 1-2 2001_02 Entry for RSA Student Design Awards. Project_New Design For Old.
2002 Project_Touch My Bits!
Originally for the blind, I created a unique hand held, screen free device for text messaging. This will then be connected to a ‘wireless’ earpiece using radio frequency ‘Bluetooth’. When receiving a ‘text’, the device will alert you (by beeping the user through the earpiece or by vibrating if the devices are in the users pocket) and speak the message in the privacy of the ear. And when sending a ‘text’, using a keypad similar to a mobile telephone, will speak the words the user has typed in. The device will be used, using one hand only typing, creating a discrete means of communication. My main factors considered when designing was to prevent rudeness, breaking free from loud, unexpected beeping from other mobile telephones, and the unsociable world that ‘mobiles’ create.
2002_03 Entry for RSA Student Design Awards. Project_Less Crime through Design_Mind Your Backpacks.
Thieves’ motives and strategy’s were very important factors to consider when designing in making the product ‘require more effort and less rewarding’ to target. I intended to design for the average London day trekker travelling to and from work, college and university using London’s ‘high risk’ underground facility. I also thought carefully about designing with ‘the tourist’ in mind, as they are very vulnerable within the company of different cultures.
2003 Final Major Project. Odyssey_My Adventurous Journey.
But my main concern was to focus around the order taking within the restaurant. Helping to provide a new way to take the customers orders efficiently thus creating better customer service all round. My idea involved the waiter or waitress to use an electronic order taking device rather than a pad and pen to take customers orders whilst at the table. Then, once the order is complete, a send button could be pressed and the order sent automatically through a wireless signal of some sort to a main computer station. This then routes the order to the appropriate printers within the restaurant for the waitstaff to process. Food to the kitchen drinks to the bar and so on. In using a process such as this, means each order is sent instantly to the main computer printers, so the waitstaff can step directly to the next table and take another order, or clean tables of dirty plates and glasses. This also means that the waitstaff will no longer have to ‘bombard’ the kitchen with several orders at once thus causing mayhem. It will smooth out the busy peak times that T.G.I. Friday’s encounters. My findings led me to design a wide variety of interesting concepts, exploring with new materials and brought me to the conclusion that not just T.G.I. Friday’s, but possibly other restaurants are in need of a new and improved system with an attempt to solve order taking problems.
University College Northampton
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