The Bailey Bollard
A beautiful culmination of the work of myself and 10 other passionate product designers, working together to solve both a major safety risk on the University of Oregon campus with under illuminated stairs and paths, as well as create a more unique design based on the local history of the campus itself.
With the main goal of casting light on the steps of a notoriously dangerous slip trip and fall risk area on campus, the placement and design of this bollard focused around the best way to be able to integrate design elements taken from surrounding buildings, as well as placing the light source top down, to project the light as efficiently and directly as possible onto the surrounding ground.
I also supported the rendering team, using KeyShot. This allowed us to represent how using a dimmable, high lumen output LED corncob bulb, the light can be perfectly dialed on site to be the right brightness and color for the surrounding area.
A major part of my work in this collaborative effort was the work in CAD and the design for assembly and production; designing for the electrical components, optimizing the models for our manufacturing process, and making the assembly process quick, reliable, and simple.
The components of the tiny bollards are an exact copy of the full sized model, save for the battery compartment and the threaded cap to turn on and off the bollards at the base.
I also designed and built 20 1:16th scale tiny bollards with 10+ hours of battery life and an integrated LED temperature matched to the spec of the full sized bollard and those currently on campus.
