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About
Beginning with the nationally-ranked Industrial Design program at Auburn University, Nathan Warren has worked to develop innovative designs based on in-depth user research. For his work in college, Nathan was selected as the Student Merit Award winner to represent the Auburn University industrial design program at the 2012 IDSA Southern District Conference. Nathan's diverse portfolio includes projects ranging from commercial power tools, to retail displays, graphics, footwear design, and pattern-making. His projects incorporate the entire design process from user research, to sketching, prototyping and final presentation. His passion for design has led him to successful opportunities with Coca-Cola, Continuum, and Timberland, as well as collaboration with other companies such as DeWalt, Emerson Tool Company, Kraido and Osmo. Nathan is currently a footwear designer at Ariat; a brand known for its equestrian, safety, and outdoor boots.
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Experience
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Footwear Designer IUnion City, CAApr 2014 - Present (12 years 2 months)Designer I responsible for expanding the Work/Safety, Outdoor, Rugged West and Rubber boot categories. Since starting at Ariat I have designed twelve entirely new footwear platforms that are currently on the market or in production. I design all projects for the Rubber boot category utilizing vulcanization and injection molding processes for production. My design process includes trend research with seasonal storytelling, sketching, tech pack completion, and making technical edits to blueprints and pattern shells. My design work has lead to successful collaboration with companies such as Vibram, to design and implement new outsole toolings in the Work/Safety category. I have experience working with a wide variety of materials including leathers, textile, rubber compounds, adhesive films, etc.
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Advanced Concepts Design InternStratham, NHJul 2013 - Jan 2014 (6 months)As an intern on the Advanced Concepts team at Timberland, I learned the basics of footwear construction, design and manufacturing. I successfully pitched and prototyped new ideas for constructing footwear with no glue/cement to help reduce the environmental impact of Timberland boots. I learned how to create and edit patterns from a last and successfully designed, drafted and constructed my own pair of boots.
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Strategy InternNewton, MAMar 2013 - May 2013 (2 months)Strategy intern responsible for conducting research and providing insight into consumer behavior. Projects I worked on included research on adapting to younger and future consumers for a major chain restaurant, providing learning strategies to the employees of a large household cleaning supply company, and implementing an internal exercise at Continuum to exemplify fun exercises that can be applied create positive change in local communities.
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DesignerAtlanta, GASep 2012 - Feb 2013 (5 months)Designer working on graphic and point-of-sale solutions for the iconic Coca-Cola brand and other North American labels. Major project initiatives I worked on included solutions for Coke’s sustainable POP display platform, graphic design for packaging and cans, and branding that supported Coke’s involvement with MLS. My work led to design project collaborations with other Coca-Cola partners such as Six Flags, Universal, the NBA and Mondelez International.
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InternCharlotte, NCMay 2011 - Jul 2011 (2 months)Responsible for doing consumer research and identifying target markets as well as sketching and producing concept ideas. Also provided material research for concept/final model production. In addition to these responsibilities, I also participated in 3D modeling and packaging design.
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Awards
IDSA Student Merit Award (Spring 2012)
One of five selected students from Auburn to present portfolio work at IDSA Southern District Conference.
Dean's List (Spring 2011, Fall 2011)
Completed semester with 4.00 GPA -
Affiliations
IDSA
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Skills
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Elsewhere on the Web
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On Coroflot@nathanwarren, member since 2010
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