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I design things that are built to be made, resolving the engineering detail while keeping the idea human, considered and genuinely useful.

Designer Alfie Pilla
Studying BSc Product Design, NTU
Based in Nottingham, UK
Focus CAD · Sketching · Visualisation
Alfie Pilla
Product DesignHardwareCAD & SurfacingDesign for ManufacturePrototypingRendering Product DesignHardwareCAD & SurfacingDesign for ManufacturePrototypingRendering
Teddy play set shown as an exploded view of its component blocks
Designed to come apart
Project
Teddy
Discipline
Toy design
Process
Injection moulding
Output
Technical pack
Teddy — Exploded assembly

Selected work

Four projects
01

Teddy

Toy design · Injection moulding

A Duplo-inspired play set of four injection-mouldable blocks, shaped around early-years play psychology — safe, intuitive and open-ended, with a full technical pack behind the character.

Design for manufacturePlay psychologyTechnical pack
02

Exo Frame

Product design · Hardware

A lightweight, low-profile cargo-mounting system for mountain bikes — luxurious and minimal, built for the bikepacking niche using recyclable aluminium extrusions and a seamless sliding mechanism.

Aluminium extrusionSustainabilityMechanism design
03

Starpack — Dose

Packaging design · Design for manufacture

Dark-chocolate packaging that fights throwaway culture: once the chocolate is finished, the tin becomes a weekly supplement organiser. Fully recyclable tinplate, one clean printed graphic, designed for luxury department stores.

Packaging designSustainabilitySecondary use
04

Head-torch

Sketching · Technical illustration

A survey-and-sketch study of a head torch: 2D and 3D perspective views resolved into a considered exploded drawing — controlled line weight, arrows and layout clarity, in my own visual language.

Perspective drawingLine weightLayout clarity

How I work

Three principles
01

Made to be made

Draft angles, tolerances, materials and technical packs — the unglamorous detail that turns a concept into a real, manufacturable product.

02

Human-centred creativity

From initial sketches through developed concepts to 3D visualisation and rendering — a hands-on process that keeps real people, not just the product, at its heart.

03

Told clearly

Considered layouts and clear narrative so the reasoning carries the work — not just the final render.

Get in touch

Let's make something considered.

Open to placements, freelance and collaboration. If you're working on something that needs both craft and rigour, I'd love to hear about it.