DESIGNER BIO

Aaron Jeschke is a recent graduate the Columbus College of Art & Design with a BFA in Industrial Design and minor in Design Research. Through working in the field of design, Aaron has grown fond of the prototyping and building aspect. If there is any building or modeling to be done, he’s in the zone. He enjoys working with wood the most and has created several pieces of furniture. Currently, he is looking for employment in the design field, with his interest being in Environment, Exhibit, Retail, Product, UX/UI, Research, and furniture design.

Aaron has accomplished a lot in his four years of college. He has attended several hack-a-thon events which had him working with strangers of different backgrounds in quick-fire projects. He did two projects, three weeks each, with the Furniture Bank of Central Ohio aimed to redesign their in house furniture offerings. As of late, Aaron volunteered for three days at the second annual Form5 Prosthetics Co-Fab in which he worked with a team to create a bike prosthetic for a 4-year-old boy’s arm.

Outside of design, Aaron is very passionate about animals, with goats being his favorite and hopes to raise some in the future. He enjoys listening to podcasts and music while he works.

DESIGNER STATEMENT

STONELOCK MAILBOX

Exploded view of StoneLock mailbox designed for Winsell Granite in 2018. Designed in SolidWorks, rendered in Keyshot 8.

RUBBERMAID BLUETOOTH SPEAKER

Physical working prototype of a Rubbermaid bluetooth speaker from 2018. Designed in SolidWorks, 3D printed ABS filament.

PILLOWFORT POINT OF PURCHASE

The Final render of a point of purchase display for Pillowfort, a Target brand, 2019. Designed in Solidworks, a physical model made from laser cut foam-core and bristol board, rendered in Photoshop.

My work has progressively advanced over the years in both subject matter and over all design. And that’s exactly what I hoped would happen. As a designer, it’s important to explore as many different avenues as possible early on. The only thing that remains consistent is my methodology behind creating works. This includes my timeline process for a project as well as the methods I use for research and development.

I am a firm believer in human centered design, which means I do research firsthand with users to understand the real difficulties they experience using a product or service. Collaborating with users helps generate directions to take the project and is so thrilling to me. For the StoneLock mailbox, I needed to understand the ergonomics behind a mailbox as well as the issues users face with package security.

After the initial research phase, I like to take a step back and analyze what I have gathered. They are always a big takeaway to be gathered, sometimes not in plain sight. That’s always exciting, having that moment of “Aha!” because it gives me a surge of energy to use to design. There’s never a moment when I’m not thinking about ideas for a project, so I’m always sketching and jotting down notes. I love being surrounded by this information on my walls.

The materials I work with varies between projects. Certain restrictions are applied to designing products. For example, the StoneLock mailbox is modeled with the intent of being rotation molded, so certain restrictions on the manufacturing and the plastic itself were accounted for. When I’m developing a deliverable, I start from sketching to laser cutting prototypes in cardboard, and then 3D printed if the need exists. This is seen with the Rubbermaid speaker, which was 3D printed and assembled with the appropriate components. Due to the conceptual nature of many of my design work, the final prototypes are not often made the way they’d be manufactured. The Pillowfort display is a great example of this. It was really a learning moment with that. I designed the display for a quick project, and later found that I needed to put more thought into the materials utilized to make it a reality.