Konrad Solarewicz

Konrad Solarewicz currently is an employee at GrapeSeed division of GrapeCity in Sendai, Japan where he now is responsible for creating English education videos which will become supplementary material in upcoming GrapeSeed DVDs and will also be used as content for in-class PC tablets.

Konrad has extensive international industrial design experience. He was employed as an industrial designer in USA, Japan, Taiwan and China and Japan. He successfully brought to market a wide range of products in several countries despite in many instances having to work with severe communication and cultural barriers.

No matter what story you create for your product, what matters the most is being able to bring your concept to the market - which is something that Konrad has a good track record of being able to do. In case of being employed at Tanita, numerous patent royalties were awarded to Konrad for successfully introducing new products to the market which in turn generated healthy profit for Tanita.

Konrad has not been employed as a manager per se but has been in many situations where he had to take on a leadership role. Some examples of these situations include:

- helping Rayco develop its own brand products

- helping Tanita UK develop its own local body scale products

- taking charge of several projects at Nova Design's Shanghai office which prior to his involvement failed to deliver satisfactory results.

He has continued to work as a freelance industrial designer whilst working as middle school teacher in Yeosu, South Korea and even now continues to do freelance industrial design work with a client in China even whilst working as a video production designer for GrapeCity.

His areas of experience include: product concept development (from start to finish), ideation sketching, 3D modeling, 3D rendering, product graphics, product market research, video editing and production. His goal is to continue his employers and clients solve their design related problems.