Konceptutveckling av luftutblås

Sammanfattning

This Master’s Thesis work was performed at the Studio Engineer department at Volvo Cars

Design Centre in Gothenburg, Sweden. The assignment has been to create a new idea of an air

vent where the news value mainly was focused at functionality but also with great attention on

visual appearance.

The work has been totally independent and not been aimed to any specific car model. The

independency initially made that the visual appearance primary wasn’t limited in any way due

to surrounding components. The independency made that the way of working followed a

general design development process.

The developing process has been done in different stages with following selection rounds.

Primarily a lot of information about demands and limitations was collected concurrently with

performing a world wide analysis of existing solutions. From the initial creation of a lot of

possible proposals for solutions, at the end via a number of iteration rounds, two prototypes

have been produced and evaluated regarding function and appearance.