Darrin Seeds

Director of Industrial Design / Transition Bicycle Company

Bellingham, WA

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Motivated design professional with over 8 years experience creating award winning, market leading products. I aspire to create innovative relevant solutions for outdoor and action sports industries. I thrive in fast paced team environments with equally passionate individuals focused on creating meaningful, well thought out, and beautiful products.

Specialties: User Centered Design, problem solving, sketching, product stories, 2D rendering, 3D modeling, model making, hard goods, soft goods.
Education
- Bachelor of Science Industrial Design
  
  Western Washington University
  
  2000 - 2005
Experience
- Industrial Designer
  
  Transition Bicycle Company
  
  Nov 2011 - Present (10 years 2 months)
  
  Combining my passion and experience as designer and racer to progress the sport and culture of cycling.
- Sr. Industrial Designer
  
  Gerber Legendary Blades (Fiskars Outdoors)
  
  May 2006 - Nov 2011 (5 years 6 months)
  
  Most recently worked directly with Bear Grylls, and lead the design direction for his signature line of survival gear. As a team leader I helped to develop and direct an entirely new direction and design process which has transcended into the global corporation. As a Sr. level designer I have successfully lead the design direction of several market leading products for the Gerber and Brunton brands. Currently my responsibilities include uncovering new needs and creating meaningful relevant solutions for the end user. This is achieved through thought out choices of form, aesthetics, user interfaces, and ergonomics. As well as determining finishes, materials, graphics, and color. These solutions are conveyed directly to marketing, engineering, implementation and sales, through several relevant mediums.
- Freelance Designer
  
  Built Design / Product Design Studio
  
  Aug 2005 - Apr 2006 (8 months)
  
  Consulted on projects for companies such as Bern Unlimited, K2, and Outdoor Research.
- Industrial Design Intern
  
  K2 / Dana Design
  
  Jun 2004 - Sep 2004 (3 months)
  
  Bag Design, soft goods prototyping, pattern making, sewing, material research.
Awards

- Bear Grylls Ultimate Survival Knife - Best selling knife world wide 2010

-Men's Journal "Gear of the Year" 2010 Gerber Crucial

-Products Featured in Publications such as: Wired, Fast Company, National Geographic, Outside.
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Anvl Components

Anvl Components from Darrin Seeds

ANVL COMPONENTS

Drawing on my experience as a Professional level mountain bike racer and enthusiast ANVL Components was forged. Developing a new brand and a line of 10 extremely technical high end bicycling components in just over a year. As the only designer, I was able to fully control the outcome from sketch to 3D modeling to designing the packaging and graphics, and working directly with offshore suppliers and engineers during the manufacturing process. Every component I've designed has a story, a purpose and a goal. Forget about the limitations of tooling and time to manufacture and simply let the design be free from compromise. For ANVL, every component started out this way with the freedom to evolve without limits.

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ANVL COMPONENTS

Drawing on my experience as a Professional level mountain bike racer and enthusiast ANVL Components was forged. Developing a new brand and a line of 10 extremely technical high end bicycling components in just over a year. As the only designer, I was able to fully control the outcome from sketch to 3D modeling to designing the packaging and graphics, and working directly with offshore suppliers and engineers during the manufacturing process. Every component I've designed has a story, a purpose and a goal. Forget about the limitations of tooling and time to manufacture and simply let the design be free from compromise. For ANVL, every component started out this way with the freedom to evolve without limits.

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Matthew

Great design!

7 years ago

Matthew

Great design!

7 years ago

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Director of Industrial Design / Transition Bicycle Company Bellingham, WA