Kwame Appiahene-Agyei

Chicago, IL

About

Design is my life

Education:
Southern Illinois University
Affiliations:
IDSA St Louis,

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Resumé

EDUCATION
Southern Illinois University Carbondale- School of Architecture: Architectural Design (August 2006 - May 2009)
Southern Illinois University Carbondale- School of Art and Design: Industrial Design (August 2009 - May 2012)

3D MODELING
SolidWorks, Pro/Engineer, Rhinoceros 3D , Autodesk 3D Studio Max, Autodesk Revit

2D DESIGN
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Indesign, Adobe Illustrator, CorelDRAW, Autodesk Autocad, Autodesk Sketchbook Pro

WEB DESIGN
Adobe Dreamweaver

RENDERING
V-Ray, Photoview 360, Keyshot, Mental Ray

EXPERIENCE (Corporate Sponsored Design Competitions)
•Landscape Brands: (Honorable Mention)
2010 Outdoor Furniture Design: Designed a bench, a trash receptacle, a bike rack and a planter

•Symrise: (Honorable Mention)
2011 Beverage Packaging Design : Designed beverage containers and a protective packaging system for flavoring samples

•Quirky: (Product in Development)
Designed a tool for washing and squeegeeing windows, scraping ice, brushing and shoveling snow


CORE SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES
• Sketching and rendering (Manual and Digital)
• Mock-ups
• Storyboards
• Research (Market, Ethnographic, Material)
• Ergonomics
• Product development
• Analysis and creative problem solving
• Design communication
• Architectural design knowledge
• Time management
• Ability to learn new software quickly
• Graphic Design



Projects by Kwame Appiahene-Agyei