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New York, United States

Brooklyn, Ny, Us

Makelab is a manufacturing company that uses additive manufacturing to produce parts, prototypes, and production runs for companies in robotics, CPG, medical, and transportation sectors. Parts are manufactured locally in NYC, San Francisco, and shipping nationwide. Founded by two Pratt industrial designers with decades of hands-on expertise in product design & development. Makelab works with agencies like Doris Dev, PENSA, Interwoven Design Group, and brands like AiTA Bio, Estee Lauder, Judith Leiber, Aigen, and Eaton to accelerate agile product development while ensuring quality outcomes.

NYC has countless tech meet-ups and events, but where's all the hardware love? We want to bring together a strong community of folks eager to build businesses with physical products, be it a cold fusion engine or a bionic fork. Whether you're an engineer, designer, CEO, investor, or anyone interested in being a part of the hardware start-up eco-system, come join us and let's create an amazing addition to the tech scene in the Big Apple.

Denver, Colorado, Us

Denver, Colorado, Us

Women in 3D Printing seeks to foster a more diverse industry by promoting, supporting, and inspiring women using Additive Manufacturing technologies. We want to celebrate those women’s achievements and share their ideas and advice and form a community. Working to further the mission of and community for all in additive manufacturing, Wi3DP is focused on expanding the global reach of an inclusive industry through targeted interviews, events, networking opportunities, and resources.Our job as local ambassadors is to engage the community on a more intimate level, in NYC. We design and host events to promote the mission and to highlight women we find inspiring.Join us in our monthly and quarterly local events: https://nycambassadors.eventbrite.com

Tangent Design is a product design and development firm that specializes in creating partnerships that allow people to take their initial ideas and concepts to market. We are a Brooklyn-based company founded in 2016 based upon the principles of hard work and a love of what we do best. Our fine-tuned technique blends an artistic attention to detail, combined with an engineering approach to make every design decision functional and purposeful. The result is a beautiful, functional, and communicative product that just works.

Brooklyn, New York, Us

Interwoven Design Group is an innovative product design and development studio based in Brooklyn, NY specializing in soft goods, wearable technology and smart textile solutions. By taking a human-centered approach, doing extensive design research, and bringing concepts into reality; we turn our clients' ideas and goals into fully-functioning wearable products.

Boston, Ma, Us

In some ways, you know us. Converse has been making Chuck Taylor All Star and One Star sneakers since we started over a century ago, and now we work to make new street style classics. What you wear defines sport, street, and creative culture, and we’ve been redefining it with you all along. When you wear Converse products, you create a culture of authentic street style simply by being yourself. Whether they’re on the feet of a ‘70’s basketball star in a history book or on the street with you today, Chucks have always signified cool...because you wear them. We don’t know where you’ll go, but we know you’ll take Converse to the future with you.

Taught middle school students about the design process utilizing a hands-on and interactive curriculum. Utilized kinetics and deconstruction of modern-da products as a means to educate about design. Focused on design thinking and the story behind a product: user, function, and environment. Educated students on translating movement into a kinetic sculptural gesture.

New York, New York, Us

-Store design concepts for international stores -Material boxes & samples-Store fixtures

-Gallery maintenance and monitoring-Exhibition installation-Coordination of transportation of artwork-Preparation of artwork to be installed

Participated in client design meetings, reviewed design options and managed client relationships. Took note of clients' spacial needs and designed concepts. Presented options to clients. Helped to manage fabrication team to implement design ideas and concepts.

-Custom furniture for clients-Fabrication of sculptures for artists-Google Sketchup

Bachelor Of Industrial Design, Industrial Design

Certificate Of Sustainable Business Strategy, Sustainable Business Strategy