Szypula Product Designer
(GB) +44 07799 151583
(PL) +48 789 125 696
fryderykszypula@hotmail.com
www.linkedin.com/in/fryderyk-szypula
Localisation: Poznań / London
Awards
‘Award of Excellence’
Awarded by the British Institution of engineering designers as per their annual prize award for the best final year project within the course at LSBU. 2023
‘Inclusive Design Award’
Annual award for unique design thinking and consideration of inclusive design elements throughout design planning. London South Bank University 2023
‘Student Creativity Award’
Mid semester award highlighting outstanding talent within year group for design work and solutions. London South Bank University 2022
‘Innovation and Creativity Award’
HarrIs Academy Chafford Hundred 2017
3rd place for TMS competition
TMS competition on behalf of thumbsupuk.com
Employment history
IKEA lakeside:
Logistics / fulfilment (Aug 2022 - Aug 2023)
Visual merchandiser (Nov 2021 - Aug 2022)
Customer services (Apr 2018 - Nov 2021)
South Bank Racing: Team leader of graphic design team (Feb 2022- Jun 2022)
Oakdene Design: Print product producer. (November 2021)
Harris Academy Chafford Hundred: Volunteering teaching assistant for Design and Technology lessons. (Jan - Jun 2018)
C.R.O Ports London: Work experience as health & safety officer at a shipping terminal. (4 weeks May2017)
Personal Interests
Gym / sports - tennis, swimming, cycling
Automotive design / customisation
Photography Technology - Ocean Cleanup
Gaming
Personal Summary
A young individual looking to grow within the design world, keen to demonstrate the ambition and passion for design along with skills learnt at London South Bank University and through industry experience within a variety of areas. Ready to take on new opportunities and challenges with an open mindset for development, learning and engaging with new and challenging tasks.
Next steps
To gain experience and knowledge in a real world environment to help me understand the design cycle and network with professionals while working on my skills and professional output.
Design Experience
Inclusive Design: Design experience with inclusive aspects regarding disabilities within projects. Ability to use anthropometric data and empathy tools to design and create products which work for a wide target market.
Concept Visualisation and analysis: Produced various types of models to at all stages of design in order to analyse and evaluate key design decisions. This allowed for me to conduct testing regarding; usage ability, structural strength and component movement.
Team Design: Team work within challenge projects which had strict limitations and boundaries resulting in heavy research and a lot of concepts for designs, mixing different group member attributes to solve challenges. For example, one sheet plywood project.
Sustainable Design: Produced a total redesign for the packaging of one of the most popular items in IKEA. Turning its material use from 100% plastic to 100% paper-based card keeping in mind its information content ,product protection and brand identity. Produced a final full scale model.
Graphic Design: Designed, formatted and edited photos for exhibition banners along with foam-board posters for products and teams. Experience in customisation of stock products based on clients needs using adobe suit. Used various production techniques to produced finalised designs.
Personal skills
Design visualisation Sketching,Rendering,Technical
Microsoft Office
Fusion 360 /Adobe suite Vred
Resource and time management Team player
Education
Harris Academy Secondary
GCSE: A:3 B:6 C:3
Bilingual Polish/English
(September 2012 - July 2017)
Harris Academy Sixth-form (September 2017 - June 2019)
A-Level: Product Design: A , Business: C , Economics: C
London South Bank University
(September 2019- July 2023)
1st Class Honours in (BSc Hons) Product Design
References
Faisal Sharih faisal.shah@ingka.ikea.com
Amy Cheeseman amie.cheeseman@ingka.ikea.com
Ben Clarke ben.clarke@lsbu.ac.uk
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