On 13 June, final year Limkokwing Industrial Design students from the Faculty of Design Innovation (FDI) presented their year-long projects to a select panel of industry experts in their final presentation showcase.
These students spent the majority of their final year conceptualising, designing, building, and testing the product of their choice based on their interest with guidance from FDI lecturers. This process enabled the students to experience creating a self-led project of their own interests. This also allowed them to apply the knowledge that they learnt from the classes that they took and to apply this knowledge to find solutions to real world problems.
FDI lecturer Saifullizan Abdul Wahab commented, “I was very impressed, not only with the innovative designs, but with the how the students researched and considered the problems affecting their project in the development of their solutions”.
Stanley Febriyanto from Indonesia, who created a futuristic concept racing car for his final semester, said that he joined the course because of his experience in the automotive industry. He had previously worked as a product designer with Custom World Motorsport Indonesia, and the course has expanded his knowledge in automotive design.
“I had the opportunity to do three months internship in a luxury car manufacturer, Bufori Motor Car Company in Malaysia, as automotive design intern. There I learnt a lot of valuable experience and knowledge”, Stanley added.
For Korean Kim HoYean, great design is more than just good aesthetics. Kim wanted to make her product useful and efficient above all else. Kim’s concept design is called the ‘Autonomous Robotic Mobile Energy Charger’, a self-contained charging station for various mobile devices for busy places such as airports. According to Kim, “This is my idea that I want to present to the industry and realise in the future.”
Nima Babaei from Iran is very passionate about Transportation Design. For his final semester, Nima created a concept supersonic private jet. He thanked his project lecturer Saifullizan for helping him to realise his concept idea.
Nima said that, “In a world dominate by speed, whether from point A to B, or on the Internet, or on our cell phones, we have to constantly be looking forward to new ways to make distances shorter and connections stronger.” Nima also added that he looked up to the late great Steve Jobs as his inspiration, and his design of the futuristic jet concept reflected this.
One of the industry experts, Muhamad Zamuren Musa, the Chief Designer at national carmaker Perodua R&D Malaysia, said he’s extremely impressed with the students’ work.
This is Muhammad Zamuren’s first time judging Limkokwing students’ work, and said, “Overall, the displayed designs are some of the best that I’ve seen. Some of the prototypes, for example, the race car, are very high quality. I’m surprised that such products come from students. Normally you can only see this level of quality from those in the industry.”
