SMART & SIMPLE DESIGN
E L E N A F O G L I A R I N I Industrial Design & Visual Communication
Curriculum Vitae
« I was born and raised in Turin, Italy. I studied industrial design and visual communication at the Politecnico of Turin, in Italy and I did a Masters in product design at the Strate Design School in Paris. As a designer, I am interested in improving people’s daily lives by designing smart and simple products. Furthermore, an equilibrium between shape and material, form and function is important to me and I like to play with metaphors, hiding a meaning behind the objects that I design. In my opinion, designers are people who see life from a particular point of view. Thus, they can notice details and find good solutions to/for everybody’s daily problems. Each project aims to improve an actual/real situation. So, I believe design helps people feel better. »
Industrial DESIGNER
Elena FOGLIARINI
Visual COMMUNICATION
elena.fogliarini@gmail.com
Fluent English Bilingual French Native language Italian
WORKING EXPERIENCE Jewellery-product designer, Shapemode, Milan.
EDUCATION 2016
3D PRINTING IN JEWELLERY & PRODUCT DESIGN. Sunglasses “Capriccio” design, jewellery collections design on jewellery for blind people, pasta&tradition, natural shapes.
October, workshop “Digital DoItYourself”, Polytechnic of Milan.
Interviewed by University of Westminster about Makers and digital revolution.
May, workshop, CHICCO, Como, Italy. BABY CARE AND SAFETY. Designing a new car seat concept for babies.
June-October, intrenship, PKparis, Paris.
2015
HI - TECH FOR LAPTOP AND SMART - PHONES. Designing 80% new products’ packaging and brand identity.
2013-2015 STRATE, Paris, France. Masters degree in Product Design.
3rd prize won during a Design competition for the Web School Factory of Paris.
September-February, workshop, SNCF Paris, Paris. Designing new guidelines for SNCF’s clients lifestyle. Project seat in Gare Montparnasse train station, Paris.
March, workshop, Transports Design Process, Paris.
2014
July-August, internship, BABYLISS S.A.R.L., Belgium.
2013
MOBILITY DESIGN.
BEAUTY APPLIANCES. Designing 20% Grilled®’s elements, test on BaByliss Curl Secret.
October-July, internship, TRUELOVE ETERNITY, Belgium.
2010-2013 POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF TURIN, Italy. BSc. in Industrial Design & Visual Communication. Participation to the iFconcept design award.
JEWELLERY & ACCESSORIES DESIGN. Found new manufacturers who gave sprint to the enterprise.
March, workshop with the HEC University, Belgium.
2012
January, workshop with COMIECO, Italy.
2011
Sailing instructor, HORCA MISERIA, Italy.
2007/ 2010
DESIGN THINKING, TEAM WORK.
THREE DAYS PROJECT, RECYCLING PAPER.
2012-2013 ESA SAINT-LUC, Liège, Belgium. Erasmus exchange with the Polytechic of Turin. Designing a concept to create green walls which integrated an engineer’s MA thesis project for the HELMO Haute Ecole Libre Mosane. The concept won a competition between the ESA Saint-luc students.
CAMPING ISULEDDA, SARDEGNA. Giving sailing lectures and organising boat daily journey.
SKILLS INDUSTRIAL DESIGN Product, furniture, exhibit, retail, packaging, model & prototype, materials properties VISUAL COMMUNICATION Graphic, illustration, publishing, presentation, video CONCEPT DESIGN User experience, marketing, social, eco-design, design for education, Web, App, interior, sketching HOBBIES Photography, comic art, travelling.
COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE PC and MAC. Adobe suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, After Effect). Microsoft Office (Power Point, Excel, Word, Outlook). 3D modelling: Rhinoceros, 3ds Max, Blender, Keyshot, Créo (bases).
Sports and competition (skiing, swimming). Sailing Italian champion and instructor. Theatre performance (dancing, plays).
Wearable
Touch-it! Jewellery is experience.
Involving other senses is a big aim in jewellery. Thus, Touch-it! is a jewellery collection which involves sight but touch too. Everybody can experiences jewellery not only by admiring it but also by touching it. This way, custumers feel materials and shapes, it is a new perspective for jewellery world. Moreover, Touch-it! is designed in a way that blind people can feel and manipulate it as well as everybody.
After
Before
Natural Shapes Nature sculpts metal with its shapes.
Gioie di pasta Italian tradition shows its elegance.
CAPRICCIO 3D printed sunglasses.
ELEGANT
C00L
DADA
DANDY IN CLASSIC
Projects designed for Shapemode, Milan.