Dan Curtiss

Design consulting to a variety of clients, specializing in soft-goods for travel and active lifestyle brands. Design research • Concept development via 2D sketching and refinement • Design mockups • Tech packs & sample development • Design presentations to stakeholders • Sourcing
Clients and design projects include:
The Allen Company: Designed hunting and fishing packs and accessories, product graphics
Battle Creek Equipment: Designed medical soft heat wraps for active lifestyles, launching 2021
Browning: Designed gear for hunting dogs https://tinyurl.com/sgbcpv, https://tinyurl.com/brcamov, https://tinyurl.com/cabbsdv
Clear Creek: Designed flyfishing packs and bags https://tinyurl.com/ccgearbags, http://tiny.cc/amzcc
Dicks Sporting Goods: Designed soft coolers, cycling packs, and golf bags for in-house brands
ECBC: Designed laptop bags & luggage https://www.facebook.com/ecbctravel/photos; strategized with with product manager on line plan. Product review in iPhonelife magazine: https://tinyurl.com/dcecbcbags
Ghostek: Designed laptop backpack, lumbar pack tinyurl.com/gtnrgpbp, tinyurl.com/volticslim
Gura Gear: Designed professional camera backpacks and accessories www.guragear.com
Highland Raptor: Designed musical instrument backpack and accessories, launching 2022
Hunters Specialties: Designed packs for turkey hunting: chest pack https://tinyurl.com/hstcpe (awarded US design patent #D813536 http://tiny.cc/turkeychestpackdespat) and vest https://tinyurl.com/hsutve
Keen/Chrome: Designed bag concepts with Keen brand language; “unboxing” concepts & storyboards
Stashlogix: Designed secure medical storage bags, including https://stashlogix.co/products/rino, https://stashlogix.co/collections/all-bags/products/durango; sourcing
Targus: Designed laptop backpacks and messenger bags to suit consumer profiles and trend information, items in line for several years: https://tinyurl.com/targuscsbp2021

- Continued professional expertise as industrial designer as described in below position
- Supervised design team, managing design work flow and mentoring junior designers
- Improved overall product creation process by implementing Adobe Indesign into product creation workflow, teaching designers, developers, and managers to use it and share files before it was common

Designed soft goods including packs, bags, luggage, and accessories, from brief to tech pack, via 2D concept sketching, tech packs for sample development, and presentations to customers, including:
Asics: Designed sports team bags
Backcountry.com: Designed snowboard bags
Clear Creek: Designed flyfishing backpacks, lumbar packs, duffels, and accessories
Gura Gear: Designed professional camera backpack
Mountainsmith (in-house brand): Designed back-to-school backpacks, designed camera backpacks, line planning and product development
The Orvis Company: Designed canvas and leather bags and luggage for legacy “Battenkill” collection, revitalizing it with improved materials, branding, and construction; designed flyfishing bag collection; designed travel bags; designed flyfishing vest
REI: Designed wheeled luggage line, including custom zipper pullers and cart system handle; designed hydration packs; designed plastic water bottle for cycling and camping departments
Segway: Designed on-vehicle bags and accessories; hard goods development
Spyder: Designed downhill mountain biking hydration pack, back-to-school backpacks
Other design projects: Adventure racing backpack, avalanche beacon holster
Conducted communication and collaborated with Asian and domestic development team and vendors
Accomplishments:
- Supervised design team, managing design work flow and mentoring junior designers
- Improved overall product creation process by implementing Adobe Indesign into product creation workflow, teaching designers, developers, and managers to use it and share files before it was common
- Worked with in-house sample room to develop bag and pack designs

Pearl Izumi: Designed cycling bag line including backpack, duffel, seat bag, hip-bag, and rack bag
Samsonite: Concept sketching, CAD, and model-making for hard-sided cartop carrier

Designed potty trainer and nursery monitor concepts * Created concept sketches, CAD drawings * Constructed design mockups and traditional photo-realistic models for presentation * Observed focus groups' responses to design concepts, incorporated feedback thereof

* Designed luggage & bag collections via concept sketches and CAD drawings * Worked with in-house sample room, learning sewing construction and pattern-making basics. PORTFOLIO: https://www.behance.net/DanCurtissID Software: Adobe Creative Cloud (Indesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Acrobat Pro), some Sketchup (3D)