In between his third and fourth years of study, he completed a design internship in Toronto with Power footwear, an athletic footwear brand owned by Bata Shoes. As a career path though, Wightman is most interested in athletic footwear design. Water purification was one of them, and Wightman’s interest in the outdoors drew him in. Watters asked his students to make an incremental advance to an existing product in one of several categories. It incorporates the idea of sustainability and usability, and it works with the flow of activity of a person collecting water and going back to a camp.
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“This product has a series of innovations. There needs to be an underlying advancement in what you are doing.” This competition does not just look for a pretty image of a product. And they are always looking for what is new and innovative. “The competition was judged by some of the top end people in the field. Initial concept designs for Wightman’s Neto Water Filter.
He really tried to understand where there is a niche in the market,” says Rob Watters, an Instructor in the School of Industrial Design who teaches the Design Studio course. “Luke’s design instinctually seemed like something that could resonate with jurors at the Industrial Design Society of America. Though the project focused specifically on recreational use, Wightman hopes that the design could also help improve access to clean water in parts of the world with limited access to it. The Neto Water Filter bag is designed so that it can be worn as a vest, with straps to distribute weight more evenly, and to make it easier to carry from the water source back to camp. The award was also one of just thirty IDEA Gold Awards given out in 2022, and he shared the distinction with designers from multinational companies like Microsoft, LG and 3M. Wightman is one of only a few students that have won an IDEA award in the history of Carleton’s School of Industry Design, which is celebrating its 50 th anniversary in 2022-23. “The wooden disc filters do need to be replaced more often than plastic ones, but replacing these filters could be much cheaper.” But the Neto Water Filter Bag uses a natural resource that is biodegradable” It filters out 99 per cent of bacteria, which is comparable to plastic filters, which claim to filter up to 99.99%. “The design solves a few different problems.
And I thought this type of water filtration product would be applicable for use by hikers too, but there is nothing like it on the market right now,” says Wightman, who developed his connection with the outdoor recreation on hiking trips in the Canadian Rockies and Italy’s Dolomite Mountains. “While I was doing my research, I came across a study from researchers at MIT that used wooden discs to filter bacteria out of water in northern India. Wightman’s design began as part of a third-year design studio project that asked students to make an incremental innovation on an existing product. The fourth-year student in Carleton’s Bachelor of Industrial Design program earned a prestigious 2022 Gold Industrial Design Excellence Award (IDEA) from the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) for his design of the Neto Water Filter bag. Luke Wightman envisioned an alternative that is both cheaper and more sustainable. 12 at the 2022 IDSA International Design Excellence Awards Winner Ceremony and Gala in Seattle, Washington. Luke Wightman (left), alongside School of Industrial Design Instructor Rob Watters, was presented with his award on Sept.
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