Hi! MY NAME is
LAURA ROCA I AM A PRODUCT DESIGNER
PERSONAL REFERENCES
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
COMPLEMENTARY FORMATION
RECOGNITIONS
Calle Santa Engracia, 107 Piso 5A Madrid, Spain
_Aug 2012 (Present) Owner of Transeúnte Leather hand-made objects Fan page Facebook: Transeúnte
_Feb 2012 - Jul 2012 Leather Course Jorge Gurfein Atelier Lomas de Zamora, Argentina
_27 Feb 2012 Project Ceramic chandelier Behance Student Show Gallery www.studentshow.com
_Aug 2012 (Present) Free-lance graphic designer
_Aug 2010 Charcoal drawing (180 hours) Academia Taure Barcelona, Spain www.academiataure.com
_12-17 Apr 2011 Semifinalist of the Real 13+Light Salone del Mobile di Milano Zona Tortona Milan, Italy www.real13.eu
Tel. +34 633 91 0679 E-mail: laliroca@gmail.com Twitter: @laliroca Linkedin: Laura Roca www.behance.net/lroca www.thehowofthings.com Birth date: 03/11/1989 Nationality: Colombian
ACADEMIC FORMATION _Jan 2013 - Present Master of Product Design Labs Master of Design and Innovation Istituto Europeo di Design Madrid, Spain www.iedmadrid.com
_ Aug - Dec 2012 Collaboration with designer Santiago Restrepo Dosuno Design Bogotá, Colombia www.dosunodesign.com _ Juin - Aug 2012 Commercial Director Guadalupe Martiarena leather bags Buenos Aires, Argentina www.peweb.com.ar _Mar 2012 - Juin 2012 Internship Federico Churba Industrial Design studio Buenos Aires, Argentina www.federicochurba.com.ar
_ Oct 2008 - July 2011 Product Design Istituto Europeo di Design Barcelona, Spain www.iedbarcelona.es
_Aug - Dec 2011 Internship Dosuno Design Studio Bogotá, Colombia www.dosunodesign.com
_Sept 2007 - Aug 2008 Language exchange in France Villeneuve d’Ascq, Lille Programmes Internationaux d’Echanges www.piefrance.com
_Nov 2010 Collaboration I+ED Istituto Europeo di Design Exposition Casa Decor Barcelona, Spain www.casadecor.es
_Aug 1995 - Juin 2007 American bilingual bachelor Colegio Albania Accredited by SACS, [Southern Association of Schools] La Mina, La Guajira, Colombia www.colegioalbania.edu.co
_Jul 2009 Arts and Crafts classes children [3 to 12 years old] Artes Plásticas AnnaPaz San Feliu de Llobregat, Spain
_Juin 2008 Fine Arts course (180 hours) Gallery Fábula Bogotá, Colombia www.galeriafabula.com
EXHIBITIONS _Aug 26-27 2013 Showroom 13 Designer pop up exhibition Stockolm, Sweden www.showroom13.se _Sep 24-26 2013 Sustainable packaging design for the international design centre Bayern Design Nuremburg, Germany www.bayern-design.de _ Apr 30 2013 Finalist of the medal Adi-Fad Exposition “Best design of the year” Barcelona, Spain www.fad.cat _Jan 2011 The Sketchbook Project Tour International project of sketch books Exposed in The Brooklyn Art Library www.arthousecoop.com
_Juin 2007 Salutatorian award Colegio Albania La Mina, La Guajira, Colombia www.colegioalbania.edu.co
COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Premiere, Solid Works, Rhinoceros, Vray, Autocad, Office
LANGUAGES Spanish: Mother language English: Bilingual French: High Catalan: Basic
WORKSHOPS _Design for children with Alberto Marcos www.ninetoninekids.com _ Desk Job with Tomas Kral www.tomaskral.ch _ Abstract to Specific - Katharina Misher www.mischertraxler.com _Design systems and Sustainability Victor Martínez PhD candidate at Northumbria University