Timo Silvonen

Senior Industrial designer of high-tech dental care units and digital imaging products.
- Industrial design for dental equipment, treatement centers, dental mills, light, work stool...
- Created Planmeca color chart and spectrophotometer measuring guide with tolerances
- Co-created plastic and silicone materials, part design, finishes and subcontracting guide
- Implemented digital sketching, ergonomic foam model making and 3D-scanning / reverse engineering methods

Engineering consultancy.
- Design concept for military vehicle interior design (confidential)

An additional pre-graduation program for ~50 selected Korean university design students. Mentored product design. Evaluated applicants. Reported to program manager.
- Guided students in Global Design Project "Smart Office"
- Guided Samsung concept design projects, Time management, Project planning

Invited professor of Product Design, Faculty of Design, College of Fine Arts.
- Built and taught courses: Form & Structure, Form Psychology, Ecological Design, Imagination and Expression.
- Evaluated MA thesises.
- Gave special lectures around Korea.
- Researched Korean industrial design business.

Industrial design consultancy, Helsinki. Managed complete accounts. Directed design, usability and multimedia projects. Created three years of company budgets. Wrote and art directed all marketing material.
Some design project highlights:
- Fujitsu-Siemens Computers: Stylized and 3D-modelled PC bezels for injection moulding
- Neste Advanced Power Systems: designed and subcontracted a hydrogen fuel cell
- KONE: Wrote a visual product design manual for MicroSpace elevator and shaft design.
- Metso: Created "OptiUI" a graphic user interface system for paper machine local controls.

Design consultancy. Products, graphics, concepts.
- Nokia Telecommunications: designed, drafted and built models for cabinets, power module
- Finndent: designed and built models for dental chair, instrument module, compressor box
- Soredex: visualized product concepts for dental X-ray scanner
- Halton MiniCan, drink can recycling machine: designed mechanics and product graphics