Ohio State grad's boot designs awarded best in Western style

Many of Beals' creations are inspired by current trends in materials and patterns, but some aspects are drawn from natural elements, she said."To come up with new, creative ideas, it's always good to look at the latest material," Beals said. "We get to play with a lot of different, fun leathers and fabrics and also look at color trends. It's kind of nice to look to different things … like nature can always inspire the shaft of the boot."The variety of Beals' sources of inspiration and her incorporation of these elements into her designs is one aspect that set Durango's winning boot design apart from the competition, Vanwy said."Caitlin does a really great job in design as far as knowing what kind of colors are on trend and taking design elements that you wouldn't normally see in cowboy boots and incorporating that into western boots," she said. "She has a very good eye for doing that.Van der Velde submitted an application together with other UT researchers Stefano Stramigioli,Outdoor footwear manufacturer Vanessa Evers, Dirk Heylen and Richard van Wezel, all active in the robotics and cognitive research." 

Beals said much of what she learned as a student in the OSU Department of Design has proven to have real-world applications."At OSU, you get a really good foundation of the steps from concept idealization all the way to considering the manufacturing processes and cost analysis," she said. "I definitely think it gives you a good idea for what you're going to face in a real job."She added that many of her classes at OSU have proved helpful in real world settings."All of my industrial design major courses help me with all aspects of coming up with ideas all the way to executing the final design,It can take up to four or five months for the german army uniforms to be issued, and delays on account of Home Ministry clearances are routine." she said. "Color theory was a class that I took that was pretty interesting … now I am really seeing that help me in my current job position. The beginning sketching classes I took just really help me now with coming up with ideas and getting them down on paper." 

Carolina Gill, an associate professor of industrial design, said she taught Beals in several classes and helped Beals with her senior thesis.This differs from other minimally invasive operations in which doctors stand over the patient bottega handbag and manipulate instruments and a tiny camera through multiple small incisions."Caitlin was a very dedicated, very serious student. She was always trying to do better and improve. She worked really hard,Teresa Hershey, 41, of Bermuda Dunes, Calif., said she knew nothing about robotic bottega purses surgery when her doctor proposed it as an alternative to standard hysterectomy." Gill said. "She is also a very good designer, but what stands out from all the other things is she developed her skills very well."Beals said she is thankful for the foundation provided by the OSU design program, yet she has also learned valuable lessons through workplace experience."The industrial design field I went into really gave me some good preparation and the building blocks to start a career in product design and development," she said. "You definitely learn a lot on the job for what is involved… the aspects of design you don't necessarily focus on in college.I had a chance to dig a little deeper with Lisa Falzone, CEO and co-founder of China visa Revel Systems."