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I'm a design and manufacturing expert based near London, United Kingdom.

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Shark Beauty | Glam Multi-Styler

The Glam Multi-Styler was created to bring professional styling performance into a single, versatile tool — combining blow-drying, smoothing, curling, and diffusing within one cohesive system.

While with Shark Beauty’s Advanced Development team, I helped define the early creative and technical direction for the product. My work focused on establishing the proof-of-concept architecture — exploring airflow control, heat-management strategies, and attachment mechanisms that later shaped the final system design.

These formative studies set the foundation for a compact, modular architecture that balanced power, usability, and manufacturability — ensuring the eventual design could deliver a premium user experience within Shark’s cost and brand requirements.


Date: 2024

Brand: Shark Beauty

Software: SolidWorks


Creative Direction, Prototyping

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