Gus Loydell
Industrial Design
Passionate about solving design challenges, and creating experiences that hinge on connections and relationships between people and products.
Final year project
AGKNOWLEDGE - Encouraging farmers and land managers across England to protect and enhance the environmental value of arable farmland through soil analysis
AGKNOWLEDGE
Agknowledge is a rapid, non-destructive soil health measurement device, that relays the soil’s spectral signature through the reflectance of near-infrared to determine various soil characteristics.
AGKNOWLEDGE - Overview
The agricultural space is changing. Understanding and making use of information and data is critical for ecosystem preservation efforts and has the potential to optimise input applications to accurately reflect the requirements of soil profiles, improving productive output and fertility longevity.
Agknowledge, alongside an associated app, is designed to promote a fundamental behavioural shift in a change-and-technology-resistant industry. Encouraging farmers to prioritise regularly checking soil health using faster processes for better farm management aiding new sustainable farming objectives.
Medication Without Waste (RSA & GSK)
Sustainable adherence packaging and associated app, integrated into a rethought and fundamentally improved repeat prescription system. Empowering the patient, through education and communication, to engage with their medication plan.
Medication Without Waste (RSA & GSK) - Overview
The way in which Pharmacies deliver the repeat prescription service is outdated, creating inefficiencies and errors within the pharmaceutical world, resulting in massive plastic and energy waste. Prevalent issues such as medication non-adherence among the elderly are not the only contributor to the economic costs of waste, but can also lead to increased demands and strain on healthcare services like the NHS.
This new sustainable adherence packaging and service introduce a new method to reduce errors by medical professionals and significantly improve a patient’s accessibility and adherence/to their repeat prescription medication plans. The subsequent waste reduction would help the industry further comply with circular economy principles and support the environment.
System Diagram - An upgraded supply chain
It introduces a new ‘Dispensing service’ that a pharmacy subscribes to and benefits from. This service accepts responsibility for sorting all medications into patient-specific deliveries based on prescription de information provided by pharmacists and GPs.
Panasonic Sense - Live project
Panasonic Sense is designed to aid the distresses of home living for dementia sufferers, acclimatising them through various senses to carers and family, aiding in linking associated memories with specific people.
Sense - Overview
Dementia is a growing issue. In the UK, it is estimated that 850,000 people suffer from this neurological disorder which greatly impacts their ability to remember, think and make decisions. Behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) are common amongst patients suffering from dementia, causing patients to become stressed or agitated from confusion over their environment, location and who they are with. These factors increase the responsibility that caregivers face. With 61% of sufferers over 65 choosing to remain within their homes, better support is needed for those with dementia and their caregivers.
Sense - Multiple Senses
Sense Is aimed at the senses. With an LED integrated light, facilitating bright light therapy, used for its promising effects on reducing restlessness and disturbed sleep for people with dementia, can help reduce symptoms of BPSD. Sense has a built-in diffuser allowing a selection of aromas to comfort dementia sufferers and acclimatise them to visitors such as carers and family, aiding in linking associated memories with specific people.
Gus Loydell
Final year project
AGKNOWLEDGE - Encouraging farmers and land managers across England to protect and enhance the environmental value of arable farmland through soil analysis
Awards
‘21 Diploma in Professional Studies
‘22 RSA, Design School Nominee