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Industrial Designer

Ascanio Afan de Rivera Costaguti

London, United Kingdom
cargocollective.com
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    Industrial designer with experience in product and research design, who has a human centered design approach and interests in innovative technologies.

  • Education
    • MA Industrial Designer Industrial Design
      Central Saint Martins
      2012 - 2014
      The final project consisted in designing a service for homeless, in order for them to track their appointments by using current technologies. This project was awarded with a funding by UAL and HEFCE. Renowned course, based on human centered design, applied to design research and development through agile methodology, under the tuition of Nicholas Rhodes, Ralph Ball and Stephen Hayward. The program consisted in applying human centered techniques as trending, ethnography, storytelling plots, between others, on our selfinitiated research, throughout a variety of short projects, with clients as Roche Bobois and Committee Colbert, as well as internal activities and culminating in a 1 year long project.
    • BA Industrial Design Industrial Design
      Instituto de Diseno de Caracas
      2006 - 2010
      Final project based in the design and development of a stroller with innovative wheel base. Degree based on Bauhaus teaching methods, which gave me excellent skills and ability to conduct design process. It gave me the ability to create and innovative designs, by clearly communicating them through the use of sketching, modeling, 3D Modeling and CAD design skills.
  • Experience
    • Consultant as product and research designer and business developer
      Telos
      London, United Kingdom
      Apr 2015 - Present (11 years 5 months)
      Co working with Sarah Gold in her project Telos, we developed an internet of things wall switch which tackled issues of this technology as UX, interoperability, data licensing and open source development.
      With this project we were finalists in the incubator MassChallenge where the project was developed to a proof of concept step.
      The main responsibilities I had were product design, supporting design research, developing the financial strategy and representing the venture in MassChallenge.
    • Design consultant in the project 3DP Bridge funded by InnovateUK.
      Assa Studio
      London, United Kingdom
      Jul 2014 - Jul 2015 (1 year)
      Researching with Assa Ashuach boundaries of high end additive manufacturing for mass market products and optimizing internet platforms for allowing personalization and optimizing connections between designer > customer > manufacturer > customer.
      Furthermore, in the process we analyzed market areas which allowed economical sustainability of products manufactured with this technology, production procedure and finishings.
    • Model Maker
      IDEO
      London, United Kingdom
      Mar 2014 - Mar 2014
      3 Days of model making a low resolution 1:1 scale of a design experience for a hotel in the UK.
    • Industrial Designer
      Product POP
      Caracas, Venezuela
      Jul 2010 - Dec 2011 (1 year 5 months)
      Demonstrated teamwork skills and briefing interpretation for developing merchandising products and packages for leading brands in Latin-America, the industries varied from luxury liquors to cellphones.
      The products had to be designed, based on the briefing provided by the client, following the brand’s guidelines, adding innovative features and considering manufactured process. At the same time managing to have the production cost as low as possible without looking cheap.
    • Designer Assistant
      Borneo Cucine
      Caracas, Venezuela
      Mar 2008 - May 2008 (2 months)
      Assisting the designer through the process of projection and building a custom kitchen.
  • Skills
    • Industrial Design
    • Research
    • Service Design
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