Resumé

Education-

Art and Design Foundation Diploma (Distinction)
Newcastle College

Ba (Hons) Transportation Design
Course Representative (All 4 years)



Awards-

-Young Enterprise Business Plan Competition
Short-listed Company

-Interior Motives Awards 2006
Short-listed Design

-Audi Young Designer of the Year Award 2004
Regional Finalist

-Featured Designer on CarBodyDesign.com

-Featured Designer on Coroflot.com

-Featured Designer on FinalCrit.com


Experience-

May 2009 - Current

Working as an interior and exterior style specialist within a team responsible for the design of all vehicles in Fiat Professional.
Working for other brands within the Fiat company.
Working on a variety of work ranging from scenario building up to feasible design proposals.
Concept ideation,
Sketchwork (traditional and digital)
Photoshop and painter rendering.
Alias


2008 - May 2009 - Fiat Centro Stile, Fiat Professional

6 month internship enjoying the experience of working as a junior designer within a team responsible for the design of all vehicle interior/exteriors in Fiat Professional.
Working on a variety of work ranging from scenario building up to feasible design proposals.
Concept ideation,
Sketchwork (traditional and digital)
Photoshop and painter rendering.


2008 What_Box? Events Organisation

As an additional module in my final year I opted to do a Graduate Enterprise Module in which myself and four others had to start a company up from scratch, maintain it and liquify it within the year. We proposed our business concept as a fundraising company that offered an intermediary link between events and sponsors with an ambition of promoting the North-East’s up and coming design talent. The business plan we constructed was shortlisted in the top twenty above 253 other plans. It was a valuable excercise and I was able to gain a lot of different skills from this module.


2007 JCB Industrial Design Department

After a successful 5 week placement last summer I was invited back for a 7 month placement within the department to further improve my skills. This was an amazing opportunity for me as it allowed me to concentrate on improving myself in all aspects of design. I was placed on live projects which ran at the same time so time management was key to keeping up with the deadlines. I improved my people skills as I had to work with engineers to develop my designs. My knowledge of package layout and engineering constraints was also improved massively as my design work had to be feasable. The placement was a great opportunity and the Industrial Design team were great to work with.


2006 JCB Industrial Design Department

During my Summer break I went on a 5 week voluntary placement in the JCB design department. While I was there I worked on both personal and live projects in a team environment that required the use of all my design skills.


Design Skills-

Research and Sketch development
Traditional, Photoshop and Alias renderings
Wacom sketching and rendering
Technical drawings
Computer Aided Design
Product analysis and Presentation
Project Management
Team Work


Software-

Alias Studio Tools 12/ 2009
Autodesk Showcase
Adobe Photoshop CS
Microsoft Powerpoint
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Word
Vellum

Projects by David Fearnley