Alexandros Stasinopoulos

About

award winning strategic & product designer with multi-disciplinary academic background in conceptual design and strategic product development / experienced with international, cross-disciplinary teamwork and managment / strong skills in communicating ideas, concepts and final products

Resume

_NEWS_

_11.02.09 : working on a design project for a young dynamic French company
_30.01.09 : started developing my blogfolio www.ale.gr (hope that approx. in a month time will be up and running)
_29.08.08 : excited to announce that another project was awarded a "red dot design award 2008"
_07.03.08 : my project about a briefcase using advanced ceramics is awarded an "iF concept award 2008"

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_WORK EXPERIENCE_

>2008_ Freelancing

> 2003-2004_Designer, "Efsimon Collections", Official Licensee for the "Athens 2004 Olympic Games" Olympic Products, Athens/Greece
(product strategy / product design / monitor production (direct contact with factories in Asia)

> 2002 (2months)_Junior Designer, "Sigma Deisgn", Athens/Greece
(design & construction of exhibition stands)

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_EDUCATION_

> 2008_Msc in Strategic Product Design (Delft Technical University Delft/The Netherlands)

focus on Product Innovation Management: creative facilitation / customer-ethnographic research / new product development / brand & product strategy / project leadership

> 2005_MA in Design (DomusAcademy Milano/Italy)

space design / experience design / product design / lectures by leading italian and foreign designers_projects for: Casseti (I), Louis Vuitton (F), Dietiker (CH), Sunstar (J) and Ceramica Vietri (I)

> 2001_BA in Industrial Product Design (AKTO, Middlesex University. Athens/Greece)

product design / package design / interior design

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_SKILLS_

>CAD
corel/ photoshop/ flash/ premier/ painter/ rhinocerus

>Excellent hand-sketch abilities

>Languages
Greek + English (fluently)
Italian (basic communication)

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_ACTIVITIES / AWARDS_

>2008_"red dot design award 2008"

>2008_ "iF concept award 2008"

>2006_Participation in the "ido 2006 workshop" organized by The HongKong Polytechnic University. One of the 4 students to represent TUDelft in this international workshop that took place in Hong Kong and China. Key activities during the workshop were: ethnographic research / product development / marketing strategy / concept presentation
(duration 6 weeks).

>2005_Finalist in the competition organized by Swarovski and Domus Academy. (Italy)

>2004_3rd place in the Illustration category in competition organized by Ornerakis and os3 magazine. (Greece)

>Attended workshops, speeches and exhibitions related to design and branding (Europe, Asia).

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>2002-2003_Military Service completed as Corporal of the Forces of Engineers.
Trained in leadership and responsible for the supervision and the training of recruits.

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_TRAVEL_

UK / Germany / Netherlands / Italy / Switzerland / Turkey / China / Singapore / Hong Kong / Taiwan / Japan


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_in the press_

yatzer.com / designboom.com / coolhunting.com / notcouture.com / trendhunter.com / trendsnow.net / FUTUmagazine (Poland) / DTmagazine (Spain) / vimaDECO (Greece) / DESIGNNET (S.Korea)


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contact: a_stasinopoulos@yahoo.com /

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a cv can be downloaded from: www.cpluv.com/alexandros
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<Flexible to relocate>



Last Updated: 11.09.2008

Location

athens/delft/milan, Italy

Specialties

  • Industrial Design
  • Design Management

Experience

1 year

Education

Delft University
>DomusAcademy, Milano/Italia>AKTO, Athens/Greece

Awards

red dot design concept award 2008 // iF design concept award 2008

Website

www.ale.gr