{"id":39102,"date":"2018-11-06T08:00:52","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T13:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/?p=39102"},"modified":"2018-11-06T12:13:15","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T17:13:15","slug":"design-for-game-of-thrones-with-north-design-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2018\/11\/design-for-game-of-thrones-with-north-design-works.html","title":{"rendered":"Design for Game of Thrones with North Design Works"},"content":{"rendered":"

At North Design Works<\/strong><\/a> there is never really a normal day at the office. At time of writing they\u2019re helping a small software company break through into automotive hardware, whilst separately working with an historic racing car manufacturer to design one of their first new car bodies in years based on sketches of a 1960\u2019s Formula 1 Concept Car.<\/p>\n

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Work-in-Progress Project Car<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Previous extremes of project randomness include designing sports bras, automotive research in waste heat recovery, architectural staircases and all manner of sports equipment, from soccer to equestrian. Jonny Patty, the Director at North Design Works, states, \u201cthe diversity of SOLIDWORKS as our main design platform gives us a distinct advantage. Where some jobs are purely industrial engineering, many are heavily led by aesthetics. SOLIDWORKS continually blows minds of my artist and graphic design partners \u2013 this lets us into a niche where the engineering designer can devise or develop aesthetics to a standard that often would demand a conventional artist\u2019s skills. Crucially this approach seriously reduces lead time because even from early project stages, we are designing for manufacture feasibility, yet to a standard of aesthetic that is top of its game. This means a client can go straight into making things without the inevitable compromises and delays to realisation.\u201d<\/p>\n

He continues\u2026 \u201cAn example of this niche was a 2014 commission for HBO\u2019s Game of Thrones \u2013 assisting with the design of the \u2018Sons of the Harpy\u2019 Mask. This became quite an iconic image and later went on to make the Cover on the Season 1-5 Box-Set. At the time the plot line was shrouded in secrecy, so at a briefing when the costume department started talking through something about an assassin\u2019s mask, we had no idea that \u2018Sons of the Harpy\u2019 was such a big part of HBO’s Game of Thrones Season 5 \u2013 indeed I assumed this costume piece would end up in a half-second flash on an out-of-focus extra \u2013 it was literally disbelief to watch this become a major part of the show and hear of the record-breaking audiences.. .\u201d<\/p>\n