Miguelangel Lobato

Denkwerk is an independent, internationally operating digital agency with offices in Cologne and Berlin Germany and employs 180 experts from 19 countries and designs the digital evolution of leading brands and companies.

Within the scope of the intern project ¨Summer of Thinxs¨I was involved in the development of a wristband which meassures the concentration while driving a car. The Thinks Laboratory is an ideation workshop, which deals with the development of products. These products should cope with the future digital opportunities of a networked everyday life. In these process the field of action included research, conceptualization, prototyping, design, sketching rapind prototyping, 3D printing and performance of user tests.

I worked in the first stage of a project that involves a local (Mexican) seat manufacture company, BASF company and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) to develop the design of a new long trip bus passenger seat with a main focus on ergonomics, productions technologies and usability.

A startup focused on developing apparel products for the urban living, with a customer center approach we sell and deliver our products emphasizing in the positive experience of the acquisition of our product.
The name A - Temporal relies in the idea on innovating in the experience of selling season by season, creating always new surprises while getting our products.

Cooperativa de Diseño is a mexican product and service design agency that develops projects from the consultancy for innovation and design till the implementation or production.

In Collaboration with CONACYT (National Council of Science and Technology) and CEMIE Geo (Mexican Center of Geothermal Energies) we designed a house geothermal system proposal for the Mexico´s market, with the focus of introducing the technology to our country we developed research of future usability of the system and the design of the products such as Geothermal the Heat pump, Thermostat and an app to manage the energy efficiency.

Shell Eco-marathon is a unique competition that challenges students around the world to design, build and drive the most energy-efficient car. With three annual events in Asia, Americas and Europe, student teams take to the track to see who goes further on the least amount of fuel.

As a Team Leader I worked mostly coordinating and motivating the team members to reach our goal of developing an Electric Battery Vehicle Concept, as well as taking care of the management aspects of the team, sponsorship´s, founding and PR.
As a Result we´ve got in 2015 the 10th place of the competition over 30 Universities and the Best from Latin American Countries.