RW X Hibi

Client: Personal Project

Type: Product Design -

Product Visualization

Details: Render Weekly (RW) is a company that hosts weekly industrial design challenges on Instagram. Sometimes Render Weekly also hosts Industrial design competitions.

Hibi is a company based in Melbourne, Australia that specializes in designing and manufacturing mechanical keyboards, keycaps, and storage.

These are renders I created for an industrial design competition that was in collaboration with Render Weekly and Hibi.

The competition was to design and render a Keycap while following the design constraints given to us.

The Keycap I designed was a sakura cherry blossom.

It is a play on words because Cherry switches are typically the switches on a mechanical keyboard the key cap sit on. A slogan that could go with this design are, “Your Cherry switches are blooming.”

In the full product render, I designed the cherry blossom keys to look as if they are blooming along a brown branch.

The winner of the competition was able to have their keycap manufactured and sold. Although I did not win this competition, I enjoyed designing a product and making product visualization renders based on this brief.

Software: SolidWorks, Adobe Photoshop & Keyshot

Responsibilities:

• Designed the product

• 3D modeled the product

• Textured the models

• Lighting

• Rendering