Joey Zeledón

Industrial Designer — New York, NY

About

Joey Miguel Zeledón is an award winning designer that loves to humanize technology, simplify complexity and create experiences that delight the soul.

Experience:
6 years
Education:
Rochester Institute Of Technology
Affiliations:
Smart Design, Continuum, RIT, IDSA, Universidad Verítas
Awards:
Core77 Design Award,
I.D. Annual Design Review Design Distinction Award.
Spark! Silver Award.
TIME Magazine Best Travel Gadgets of the Year.
Good Design Award.
Spark! Bronze Award
IDEA Finalist
Green Dot Award

Share

Resumé

EXPERIENCE

Smart Design (New York)
Industrial Designer
Designing delightful products and experiences for human beings 2012-present

Universidad Veritas (Costa Rica)
Design Professor
Teaching fashion design students visualization techniques
(manual and digital) 2012 (summer semester)

Continuum (Boston)
Industrial Designer
Designed delightful products and experiences for human beings 2007-2011 (4 years)

Clarks (Boston)
Lead Footwear Designer
Designed for Clarks Originals and Mens Business Unit
Banana Republic Lead Footwear Designer Designed for Mens Business Unit (private label) 2006-2007 (1.5 years)

New Balance (Boston)
Footwear Design Intern Summer 2005 (3 months)

Clarks (Boston)
Footwear Design Intern Summer 2004 (3 months)

EDUCATION

Rochester Institute of Technology (New York) Industrial Design with Sociology concentration BFA 2006 (4 years)

AWARDS

Core77 Design Award (Notable), Coat Check Chair, 2011
I.D. Annual Design Review Design Distinction Award, Coat Check Chair, 2010
Spark! Silver Award, Coat Check Chair, 2009
TIME Magazine Best Travel Gadgets of the Year, Targus Smart Hub, 2009
Green Dot Award Honorable Mention, Solay Sustainable Running Shoe, 2009
Good Design Award, Targus for Mac computer peripherals, 2009
IDEA Strategy Finalist, Targus for Mac computer peripherals, 2008
Spark! Bronze Award, Solay Sustainable Running Shoe, 2008

PUBLICATIONS & EXHIBITIONS

Core77, Sketching Lab Costa Rica featured, 2012
Su Casa Magazine, Sketching Lab Costa Rica featured, 2012
Core77 Year In Review: The Best of Core77, Coat Check Chair featured, 2011
HOW Design Conference, Coat Check Chair featured, 2011
Apartment Therapy, Coat Check Chair featured, 2011
Inhabitat, Coat Check Chair featured, 2011
TreeHugger, Coat Check Chair featured, 2011
NOTCOT, Coat Check Chair featured, 2011
Core77, Coat Check Chair featured, 2011
Design-Milk, Coat Check Chair featured, 2011
I.D. Annual Design Review Exhibition, Coat Check Chair featured, 2010
AIGA National Design Center, Coat Check Chair featured, 2010
Creative World of Design Annual, Coat Check Chair featured, 2010
South Korea's Monthly Design Magazine, Coat Check Chair featured, 2010
MonkeeDesign, Designer of the Week, 2010
Trend Hunter Magazine, Clarks Originals featured, 2010
Core77, OXO sketches featured in Member Gallery, 2010
Core77, Clarks Originals featured in Member Gallery, 2010
Guangzhou Design Week, Coat Check Chair featured, 2009
The Autodesk Gallery, Coat Check Chair featured, 2009
Designophy, Coat Check Chair featured, 2009
Innovation Magazine, Coat Check Chair featured, 2009
SneakerFreaker, Shark Skin Wallabee featured, 2008
SneakerFreaker, Quilted Wallabee featured, 2008
GQ Magazine, Banana Republic footwear featured, 2008
Esquire Magazine, Banana Republic footwear featured, 2007

LANGUAGE

Fluent in English & Spanish



Projects by Joey Zeledón