-"If you can't see the future, you're not driving fast enough"
Benjamin B. Fullerton Jr.
www.benjaminfullerton.com // 262.434.9096 // bf@benjaminfullerton.com
Experience
Kohler // Industrial Designer // Kohler WI Feb-2011 to Current
Full Time Designer within the Kitchen & Bath Studio. Full spectrum design process, Design Research, Portfolio Logic, Designing to maximize the potential of current and new processes.
Motorola // Product Design Internship // Plantation. FL June-Sep 2010
Professional experience in Mobile Device Design.
Ashcraft Design // Product Design Internship // Los Angeles. CA Jan-April 2009
Professional experience in consumer electronics design.
Design Wise Medical // Freelance Design // Minneapolis. MN 2009
Pediatric Medical Product Design and Trade Show exhibits.
IDSA Chapter President - University of Wisconsin Stout // Menomonie. WI 2009-Pres
Prototype & Pattern creation/repair - Northern Stainless // Pewaukee. WI 2006-Pres
Recognition & Involvement
IDSA Merit Award Finalist // Midwest District 2010
Professional Board Selected. Top in Class // Univ. Wisconsin. Stout 2010
IDSA Student Chapter // President 2010
Senior Design Mentor // University Wisconsin Stout 2010
Chancellors Academic Excellence // University Wisconsin Stout 2007-10
Best of Industrial Design // University Wisconsin Stout 2008
The 2008 Best in College Photography // Published by Nikon 2008
Design Within Reach // Furniture exhibition 2008
Festival of the Arts Scholarship // Oconomowoc WI 2006 & 2009
Kathie Batsche Scholarship // Oconomowoc WI 2006-10
Scholastic Golden Key // Photography 2005
Talent
Macintosh and Windows.
Adobe CS4. Photoshop / Illustrator / InDesign
Microsoft Office. Word / PowerPoint / Excel
3D Modeling. Solid Works / Hypershot / Rhino / Sketchbook / Inventor / Alias Studio Tools
Concept Sketching. Technical Drawing. Photorealistic Rendering. Prototyping. Machining. Project Management. Creative Problem Solving. User/Trend/Product Research. Technical Design Compliance.
Education
Bachelors in Fine Art. Industrial Design.
University Wisconsin Stout GPA.3.65 // Expected Graduation in Fall 2010
Interface Design - Human Ergonomics - Materials and Manufacturing – Design Methodology - Sustainable Design – Professional Design Practice – Fine art Studios
Oconomowoc, WI
IDSA Merit Award LG Furniture Design. National Grand Prize Best of Industrial Design-Stout 2008 Chancellors Award 2007-08 Published in "America best college Photographers 2008" by Nikon Scholastic Golden Key-Photography 2006-07-08