Hello! I'm Harleen Dhawan Current
12 months
DESIGNER
Profile 24th July 1997 +91-9512815459 contact.harleendhawan@gmail.com harleen1997@gmail.com
Chandigarh Indian English Hindi Punjabi Gujarati
Education 2015-2020
2013-2015
2003-2013
6 months
Certified Courses
Soft Skills
• Product Designer - T-Works Foundation, A Government of Telangana Initiative, Hyderabad / Developing better infrastructure by designing better user experience for India's largest prototyping centre
• Acted as a juror in a 5-juror panel to evaluate rural innovator’s pitches for TSIC’s T-SIRII, based on three criterias - likely impact of innovation on the particular community, innovativeness, and viability-scalability - for a grant of ten Lakh rupees.
• Interaction Design - Human Centered Design (Specialization with 8 courses) University of California, San Diego
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Analyzing and deriving inferences
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Communication and articulation
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Leadership
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Team-working
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Rapid Prototyping
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Project management
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Cognitive and critical thinking
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Process development
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Fast learning and adapting capability
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Brand and strategy building
• Design Fellowship - T-Works Foundation, A Government of Telangana Initiative, Hyderabad - UI-UX to develop the prototyping service website for efficient user flow Customised Furniture designing Customised display systems, inforgraphics, wayfinding while enhancing spaceplanning using anthropological and ergonomic standards for material handling and machine operation - Architectural and interior works to help set up the upcoming India's largest prototyping centre - Knowledge dissemination through blogs and visual communication, lead for 'Learn.tworks' initiative to promote a culture of learning through regular workshops, debate sessions and webinars to grow the maker community - Project management and lead for developing an efficiently designed workbench-station for prototyping, with integrated tools station - from ideation, research, designing, conducting market study, deriving working drawings, renders for visual communication, in-house fabrication and budgeting - Blog-writing for communicating learning experiences at T-Works for the project - Biopress4T, with high societal impact - Designing business-cards for the company • Junior Designer / Vivek Consultants, Architects & Interior Designers / Architectural and structural designing + 3d visualizations
/ Ahmedabad / Rank 3 in the All India Entrance Exam + Interview
6 months
/ C.B.S.E, Chandigarh / Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics
• Design Internship / IDO Design Solutions, Ahmedabad [June 2018-December 2018]
/ interior & furniture design and brand building • Freelancing - at Bloomsbury Publications / Designing creatives for their social media platforms / Other freelancing experience including graphics & logo design, 3d visualizations, space planning.
St. Stephens School / Score - 89% / I.C.S.E., Chandigarh
Design is not a mere solution to a problem, but a way of resolving it”
Achievements
[September 2020-March 2021]
B.ID - C.E.P.T. University
G.N.P.S. / Score - 88%
Work Experience
4 months
• Editorial Internship - Rethinking The Future / Architectural and design journalism
4 months
• Teaching Assistant at CEPT University / For the course of ‘Digital Technology’
• Selected for Design Fellowship at T-Works Foundation - A Government of Telangana Initiative (5 seats) amongst 1800+ applicants from across the country • Rank 3 in the All India Entrance Exam + Interview for the Undergraduate Course at CEPT University, Ahmedabad • Won the Grand Prize of $500 for 'Made With Math' contest organized by Instructables + Autodesk for the original product 'Synergizing the Beauty of Mathematics and Art', reaching an audience of over 20k in under 3 months • Received invitation to get featured and exhibit the above project for MakerMela 2022, India's biggest innovators' gathering organized by Somaiya Vidyavihar University’s riidl • Participation in Raw Collaborative2 / as part of IDO Design team - 3-day furniture design exhibit • Published 4 articles on the online architectural design magazine Rethinking The Future - How effective is studio system in architectural and design education? -Presentation Sheets - How much is enough? -Sangath - An orchestrated experience - 15 projects by Elizabeth Roberts - a documentation
•Makers And Researchers’ Society (MARSlabs) / Responsible for Cad-designing workshops, digital-fabrication research, digital marketing, poster making and development analysis
(online Coursera certified 6 month specialization)
• Introduction ot Typography California Institute of Arts (online Coursera certified 4 week course)
• Fundamentals of Graphic Design California Institute of the Arts (online Coursera certified 6 week course)
• Transmedia Storytelling: Narrative worlds, emerging technologies, and global audiences University of New South Wales
Interior
(online Coursera certified 6 week course)
• Understanding Research Methods University of London & SOAS University of London (online Coursera certified 6 week course)
• Seeing Through Photographs Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) (online Coursera certified 6 week course)
Hard Skills
Reference Prof. Ar. Ratna S. Shah +9687299610
3d Modelling Rhinceros Grasshopper 3ds Max Sketchup Fusion 360 Blender 3d
( R el a ti v e to one a nother)
2d Dra ftin g
UX-UI, Graphics Figma Sketch Adobe XD Adobe Photoshop Adobe Indesign Adobe Illustrator Corel Draw Inkscape Adobe After Effects
Re n d e r i n g an d A r c h - V i z V-ray Lumion Enscape Blender
Autodesk Autocad VELUX Daylight Visualizer Autodesk Flow Design
D i g i t al F ab r i c at i o n Laser cutter C.N.C. milling Vinyl cutter Micro milling FDM, SLA 3d printer
Sketching for 2d-3d visualization Photography and documentation Content and research writing Wood-working, bamboo-working Metal-working Ceramics
Portfolios - www.issuu.com/harleendhawan07 Know my perspective - instagram/harleen.dhawan