Nice To Meet You, I’m Rowan
Hello, my name is Rowan Gipe and I’m a junior in industrial design at Cedarville University. Professionally my skillset lies in 3D modeling and rendering, but I’m actively working to increase my areas of expertise.
In my free time I enjoy messing around with technology, working on my car, and playing bass. I draw from my experience with the mechanical and assembly side of production to create ideas that work better for the people on the floor and are more efficient. With this experience in combination with my artistic ability, my goal is to bring ideas from concept to reality as quickly and smoothly as possible.
Product design project
Project Brief
Create a product to help individuals remain cleanly even though they are busy, while adapting the product to contain the brand language of an established company.
moodboard
Before anything could be done, I first needed to choose a brand and establish brand language that I needed to follow.
Ideation
Pages of quick ideation sketches created with the intent of exploring as many ideas in as short of an amount of time as possible
Refinement
3 ideas selected from the ideation pages, and further fleshed out in cleaner sketches
Second Ideation
More pages of ideation after refinement, meant to further nail down the details of the selected ideas
Hack Model
Created a rough model to give physical form to my selected ideas, and further refine them to fit human proportions
Final Render
Ultimately I ended up choosing to flesh out a concept of a Kirby bag, which could be thrown in the corner of a room and become a decoration rather than clutter. This would decrease the frequency that cleaning is needed, and make organization easier.
Fan Design Project
Design a handheld fan that accommodates 95th and 5th percentile hand sizes, adapting to the brand language of an existing brand.
Personal Projects
2025 spring art exhibition
Best in illustration
This is my submission for the 2024 Cedarville Spring Art Exhibition, which won best in illustration, titled “Sashimi makes Sashimi”. My inspiration was my upcoming trip to Japan that I would be taking over the summer, as well as the fact that I was beginning to learn Japanese.
