Linxuan Liu

Industrial Design, 2015

Ventex is an indoor drying product designed for people who have problems in dog bathing experience.

There are approximately 164 million of people in the U.S owned pets in 2012, and 83.3 million of them owned dogs. According to the American pets products association, Americans spent more than $50 billion on their beloved cats, dogs and other animal companions. There are also different kinds of services available for pets out there in the market like pet grooming store. But most people do not prefer to wash their pet in a grooming store due to the extra cost; they usually bath them at home, so there is a need for pet owners to have a better experience of bathing their pets. Drying is a big problem for dog’s bathing experience, it takes much longer time to dry large sized dogs or dogs with long hair.

Linxuan Liu is a senior industrial design student who enrolled in the Ohio state university in 2013. She was passionate about industrial design, before that, she spent 3 years studying product design in Ngee Ann polytechnic, Singapore, where she learned how to design from a practical aspect. She love sketching and design thinking, she believes design is not only an outcome, but also a process.