Portrait of Oscar O’Reilly

The designer

Oscar O’Reilly

Product & Industrial Designer — Brighton, United Kingdom

Product and industrial designer taking ideas from first sketch to manufacturable object. Over the past year I have designed and delivered 30+ projects for leading brands across CAD, rapid prototyping and fabrication. My own practice centres on mechanical smart lamps, where movement, light and electronics meet.

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Experience

09.2025 — 09.2026

Product Designer, Fuel4 — Staines, Surrey

  • — Designed and delivered 30+ projects for leading brands.
  • — Proposed a £10,000 high-end 3D printer investment to managers and design leads, then installed it, bringing more manufacturing in-house.
  • — Translated client visions into manufacturable solutions on short timelines, using new manufacturing methods.
  • — Integrated Claude Code into the studio’s design process.

Education

2021 — 2024

BA (Hons) Product & Industrial Design — Upper Second Class (2:1)

Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London

Skills

CAD & visualisation — Fusion 360, SolidWorks, KeyShot, Blender
Prototyping & fabrication — FDM and resin 3D printing, CNC fabrication, sheet metal, laser cutting, wood carpentry
Electronics & AI — Arduino IDE, Claude Code, ChatGPT
Graphics — Adobe Illustrator

What I bring

Design for manufacture, physical prototyping, electronic engineering, vibe-coding software, 3D understanding, materials and space, negative space, drawing and sketching, visual communication, graphic design, colour theory, photography.

On the bench

maki & kumu prototypes · Lavendr clothing brand · Home workshop build

Beyond

Surrealist art · Cooking · Hiking & mountaineering · Golf · Museum member · Japanese (moderate) · Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, Bronze

Drawing — surrealist, after Dalí

2021–2025

Dante and Virgil parody artwork

Battle of the Bands

2022

Pencil drawing of flowers, thorns and crosses

Pencil

2022

Surrealist pencil study

Surrealist study

Pencil

maki fold sketches

maki fold studies

2023

Monc veneer

M49 Veneer

Monc — 2023