Portfolio Amélie Fast
I’m a product designer who have involved both my professional and hobby life in design ever since I was very young. I’ve worked with everything from designing the global VR department at Tetra Pak to designing beautiful festival costumes.
Contact me at:
E-mail: Amelie.kristina.fast@gmail.com
Instagram: PorcelainAmelie
Linkedin: Amélie Fast
Awards:
Represented Malmö University at Southern Swedish Design Days 2022 with my innovative laminated ash and linen shoe
Represented Mamö University at Blooming Malmö University Graduation Exhibit 2023 with a complete sustainable outfit
Work
Freelancer for Myself
Jan 2024- Current
Shorter assignments by other designers and smaller companies mainly within CAD, design processes and garment construction.
Icon Designer at Symetri and Tetra Pak
Sep 2023- Jan 2024
Implemented new UI elements in internal software to extend availability for new users aswell as those with vision impairments.
Design Supervisor at FOMP
2022-2023
Educated the startup in design principels aswell as supported development of products, 3D printing aswell as stresstests.
Summer worker at Tetra Pak
2017-2020
I’ve worked there for many years and among the things I’ve done I’ve;
Been responsible for the creation of the Global VR department where we designed the experience for global VR communication.
Worked for 2 years as an Icon designer for inhouse software.
Worked as an assembler to better understand the practical side of the products Tetra Pak provides
Education
Malmö University - Product Design
August 2020- Summer 2023
Studied product design and graduated this spring
Polhem gymnasie - Design and Product Development
August 2014-June 2017
A giving experience growing up that taught me many of the design principles I now hold close
Software and Licenses
I’m educated in Affinity, Fusion 360, Solidworks, Office, Miro, Figma, the Adobe Suite aswell as AutoCad and ClipStudioPaint.
I have a class B drivers license.
Basic Universal Clothing
As my thesis I decided to focus on the peoples need for clothing. In order to do this I studied with various methods what people need, what they do and how they use their clothing. This then resulted in a full outfit being designed with economic, social and enviromental sustainability in the forefront. Below we’ll follow one of the investigative methods and how it helped shape the final garments.
First a small pre-study where I figured out where people possibly could want to add or change things, this was done by studying 30 garments and where their details lay.
An overall was chosen as its gender neutral, simple to understand and gives ample room for change and modifications. Ofcourse it had to be sewn together! The cloth was canvas like to give the metaphorical weight of “a blank canvas”
The lessons learned from the testing and previous interviews and theory gave the project a requirement list. After a lengthy sketching phase a design was chosen that filled all the boxes.
This study resulted in a comfortable, stable, protective and versatile outfit of two linnen pieces and two denim covers. To prove it’s comfortability and usability the garments were worn on a lengthy jog throughout Malmö City. The outfit was hailed by the participants for its big pockets, its innovative style and the safety it brought them in their normal every day tasks.
Details like pockets and such were made for the user to play around with, but they could also play with having/not having arms and the lengths of all the limbs. The “Jokers” were there to give the user the ability to express something they felt were missing or was too restricting.
All of the users had great fun and spent a lot of time testing, modifiying and playing around with all the details in order to make what they felt were their dream garment. A lot of details were unique and gave really interesting information for the study. Here we could really see the shortcomings and the things the market had done right and also what the future garment should look like.
Portfolio
Hey! There’s never a calm day without a design project in my household, here you will get a taste test of my fashion projects, my product design and costuming!
UI/UX
The market is now going digital and I’ve adapted by focusing a lot of my design skills on UI and UX work!
Tailored and Adaptive Solutions
Working with different product owners require different solutions, some might want an exhaustive design research period while some require a hands off approach with a few simple results. Therefore I’ve worked hard on giving customers an adaptive path towards the end result, giving them the power to choose how involved they will be, the technical and visual requirements aswell as the documentation.
Example of a Thorough Design Process
Even if the medium is new the design process often looks the same, in this process I worked both physically and digitally to optimize time saved while still getting good and thorough results.
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Quick sketching to figure out all good and bad ideas.
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Prototypes are shared with users and consumers to gauge interest and critique.
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After several rounds of critique the final icons are published.
Fashion Projects
Lately a lot of my design work has gone into my pashion, fashion and related products. This has led to a lot of learning and exploring of different materials, solutions and obstacles that consumers today face.
This is a short gif of a sketching method often used while designing
Here’s an example of a pair of work shorts that were designed with longevity in mind.
Sketching and technical sketches can take a bunch of different forms, here we see both simple technical sketches and real life patterning.
Product design
Since I’ve been a product design student since high school I’ve had a lot of time to work on a lot of different projects, here are some!
If you visited Southern Swedish Design Days you might have spotted this in an exhibition representing Malmö University! This was a project that tried to make laminated wooden shoes.
3D Design and printing
Fixing my computer by using flow dynamics and creative solutions to properly cool an air starved system.
Here are some smaller design projects I’ve worked on, one is a safety ring packed with electronics to monitor and send distress calls at a concert. The other is a simple bar stool.
Im often tasked with doing informational illustration to show off functions, design or usage of a product.
I’ve owned an AIO system that has been starved of air since I bought it. I decided to fix that by creating 3D printed airducts and attaching fans aswell as creating new inlets. This way I can pump fresh air in and out. Statistically this improves the performace by 40% and will help a lot in the longevity of the parts also reducing the likelyhood of it becoming e-waste.
Costuming
Costuming requires a steady workflow and a wide variety of skills, you need to become a sewist, a machinist, a 3D modeler, a hair stylist, a makeup artist and so much more all in one big project.
These stays are a good representation in how I work! They are based on Catalonian stays from the 1800s documented in one of Liz Coveys books on historical fashion. I myself repatterned them, made mockups and sewed it as historically accurately as I could with a mix of linen and cotton. The outside is fully flat as I made sure to hide the boning creating a much nicer and cleaner look, but personally im a big fan of how neat the insides turned out.
Here’s an asortment of costumes I’ve made, usually a project like this is planned and made over a whole year and includes many different design and exploration stages.
Costuming in 2025
Currently I’m working on a new ambitious project requiring a lot of planning and resources, that’s why I’m enlisting the help of a lot of friends and companies. It’s always important for me to build a network of knowledge, resources and manufacturing so that all projects have the chance to become the best they can.
This is a 3D modeled prop for an upcoming costume that was made to be able to be printable, press the thingiverse button and it’ll take you to where you can download and make it yourself!