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Designer Beauty Bags
ADM beauty-INDICIA
Paris, France
Oct 2025 - Present (9 months)
• Studies and creations of photorealistic and AI-powered premium Gifts with Purchase and merchandising accessories (beauty bags, make-up pouches, lifestyle) in response to high-value marketing and creative briefs
•Technical drawings with assembly sections/ recycled materials/finishes and colors details
• Technical follow-up in English with suppliers Asia
• Creative and competitive watch in affordable luxury and cosmetics
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Industrial/Products Designer
France
Feb 2024 - Sep 2025 (1 year 7 months)
Freelance Industrial Designer and Developer to create your products and packaging with a strong story and I am also working as a Consultant to improve your business/sales and development goals, especially in the Publishing area/ Premium packaging.
Ready to develop with you new creative products, packagings and also, box sets, board games, special books designs, from the 1st rough, to the 1st white dummy till the 1st manufacturer sample !
For Adults/Youth production or for Children toys.
Strong skills in :
- Creative process : Insight-Ideation-Implementation, sketches, templates, 3D images (with Rhino)
- Technical development and economical solution method : Trust, Eco-design, Innovations, complete Request For Quotation with target price, materials, foodgrade and customs issues from Asia
- Creative watches, moodboards, brainstorming and consultancy
Curiosity is not a bad default in Design, quite the contrary.
Contact me to talk about it or for a meet up in your (small or big) company !
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Product Design Manager (Conceptrice de produits graphiques)
Hachette Livre
Vanves, France
Jan 2019 - Jun 2023 (4 years 5 months)
Incharge of all the new product and packagings box sets design and development
Topics : Cooking / Arts and Crafts / Toys / Cosmetics
- Creative proposals as a Product Designer + Project Management and product developments of technical and economical solutions in the respect of specifications established with publishers
- Answer to editorial briefings for box sets with a book and accessories / Packaging / Board games / Special books or packagings/products : Insight-Ideation-Implementation, sketches, materials, templates, 3D images, 3D printings
- Creative watches and advices
- Draft and negociate quotations in English, with quality and production schedules with Chinese or European suppliers
- Follow an Asian pre-production from the first rough to the final white dummy for manufacturing
- Check customs regulations (tariff)
- Check european standards qualities for Chinese products import on European market (BOM food safety - toys - cosmetics)
- Visit factories, printers and international books/packagings/products fairs in Europe and in Asia
- Work directly with lifestyle and cooking publishers (Hachette Pratique)
- Since november 2022, incharge to help other publishing companies to develop their design topics (Marabout, Hazan, 2 Coqs d'or, Hachette licences), especially on the eco-friendly innovations
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Products Designer and Developper
HACHETTE BOOK GROUP
Paris, France
2012 - 2018 (6 years)
Single job in the Technical Direction
Topics : Cooking / Arts and Crafts / Toys / Cosmetics
- Take charge with creative proposals as a Product Designer + project management and product developments of technical and economical solutions in the respect of specifications established with publishers as a Project Developper
- Answer to editorial briefings for boxsets with a book and accessories / Packaging / Board games / Special books or improving existing packagings/products/POS counters : Insight-Ideation-Implementation, sketches, materials, templates, 3D images, 3D printings
- Creative watch in the research department
- Draft and negociate in English quotations, with quality and production schedules with Chinese or European suppliers
- Follow an Asian pre-production from the first rough to the final white dummy for manufacturing
- Check customs regulations and european standards for Chinese products import on European market (BOM food safety - toys - cosmetics)
- Visit factories, printers and international books/packagings/products fairs in Europe and in Asia
- Management of an external free-lance designer
- Work directly with firm publishers Living, Youth and Luxury (Hachette Pratique, Marabout, Deux Coqs d’Or, Gautier Languereau, Le Chêne)
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Product designers and others
www.linkedin.com/in/senamiesteward
2006 - 2012 (6 years)
Please, check on Linkedin for what I did before 2012 :
www.linkedin.com/in/senamiesteward