Erik Arlen Email & Phone Number

Paris, Île-De-France, France

Grenoble Area, France

Partner / AssociateCreative direction

Paris Area, France

Co-founder with Ludo Roth of ARRO.studio, a Paris based design agency focusing on industrial, innovation, footwear, installation and spaces._clients Nike | Adidas | Decathlon | Aigle | Audio-Technica | Clarks | Scott Sports | Villa Lena | Balenciaga | The Museum of modern craft in Paris "Arts & Métiers" | Luxman | Le Coq Sportif | Accor Hotels | National Design Center Singapore | Lacroix | L'Usine | Puma | Ride Snowboards | Jack Erwin | Luxman | Subspace | Virtual Room | Bagua | Cylo | Ogilvy & Mather | L'Oréal | Sawa shoes | Lexon | Sismeek | Case-Mate | Element | Aldebaran-Robotics | SuperMoreBetter | Groupeer | Olympe Intl. Dvp. | Aisin ( Toyota group ) as well as start-up companies and private clients.

Portland, Oregon Area

Nike Action SportsDesigned and developed advanced footwear products for Nike action sports brand, Nike 6.0, Nike Snowboarding and Nike SB.Worked on shifting products from Nike 6.0 to Nike ActionSports new branding strategy.Travelled frequently to development center and factories in Asia to overlook the development and production process.Worked closely with the Nike I.D team to design a customizable shoe with interchangeable tooling and platform, upper elements, padding, materials and colors.Worked with top snowboard athletes, Nicolas Müller , Gigi Rüf and Scotty Lago to design one of the most advanced snowboard boot in the industry, the Zoom Ites. Led the color and materials application for the 2012/13 season, including the Kaiju, Zoom Force 1, DK, Ites and Vapen. Participated to the Dornbecher Child Hospital project and the MakeSomething workshops at Los Angeles MOCA curated by NikeSB and the Beautiful Losers collective.Worked closely with the snowboard brand team on prints and ad campaign.Product designed :Nike ActionSports : Nike Braata Mid LR | Nike Zoom Leshot | Nike Mogan 3Nike SB : Nike Mavrk3 | Dornbecher VulcRod OMS : Dunk High Free Winter OMS | Braata Mid OMS Nike Snowboarding : Nicolas Müller Kaiju QS | Nike Zoom ITES

Portland, Oregon Area

Nike Womens TrainingDesigned and worked on footwear training products. Worked closely with the brand design and marketing teams, instructors and some of the top Nike female athletes. Worked on designing the first line of footwear products for dance freestyle women using for the first time new technologies like Fuse. Travelled to USA, Europe and Japan to meet some of the best dancers and collaborated with the Innovation Kitchen team.Designed and created "YoGirl", the new identity for the yoga division in the Asia Pacific region.Collaborated with Serena Williams and created the "Black Avenue" story with her around the new Woman Trainer1 for the 2010 US Open.Worked and explored various advanced footwear technologies and concepts with the design team composed by Ben Shaffer , Denis Dekovic, Mark Miner and Brian Foresta.Worked on the relaunch of Free products, including the Nike TR Fit which uses a new flexible upper construction and is one of the most sold Nike Women's training shoe do date and became a franchise product for the following years. Travelled frequently to development center and factories in Asia to follow the development and production process.Product designed :Free platform : Nike Free Trainer 7.0 | Nike Free TR FitTraining : Air Strong Sister | Sparq Air Max | Zoom Quick SisterGym Dance Serie : Nike Air Boom II | Nike Musique VFreestyle Dance : Battle Royal Fuse concept | Troupe JRLimited Edition : BlackAvenue Trainer 1Special project : YoGirl

Portland, Oregon Area

Nike Tennis Footwear and graphic designer. Designed industry leading footwear products in collaboration with the Nike Innovation Kitchen and Rafael Nadal. Worked on color direction as well as some graphic identity for Nadal. Designed the Nike Court Ballistec 1.3, the most durable tennis shoe using innovative processes, which ended up being a franchise product for the tennis category for the following years.Product designed :Court Ballistec 1.3Court Ballistec 1.2Court Ballistec 1.1

Paris Area, France

After wining the Aldebaran&Creapole robot design competition with Thomas Knoll in 2006. We continued to work during two years as freelancer/consultant with the Aldebaran-Robotics's team of mechanical and robotic engineers.Co-designed with Thomas Knoll the body of the robot head to toe, which included sketches, 3d-work, sections, revisions, working with the constrains of all the engine inside as well as the angle for all the movement.Came up with the name NAO and created various logo work for the identity. We worked on interaction design, and functionality button access closely with the team.In 2010 NAO was presented at the French Pavillon during the WORLD EXPO in Shanghai, replaced Sony's Aibo as the platform of the famous Robocup® and is the most sold robot to date (to professionals, lab and university only).

Munich Area, Germany

Designed footwear for the Puma motor-sport collection. Worked on conceptual footwear projects bridging sports and fashion.Created colorway stories for footwear.Worked on the BMW and PUMA racing apparel collection and created a collection of graphics for apparel for each of the Formula1 Grand Prix.

Grenoble Area, France

Collaborated with Kaorigin on a new concept for the Action Sport Industry. Worked in Grenoble with the team during 2month on developing the new product, which involved technical drawing, sections, prototyping as well as testing sessions with french rider Mathias Silhan in the French Alps.After leaving Grenoble, I continued to work with the team as one of the designer part of the Kaorigin artist series. Designed a collection of 20 graphics for skis and snowboards for their new customization platform in collaboration with Rossignol, Dynastar, Zag and Blacksmith.

Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

After winning the 3rd prize of the Toyota-Aisin international student design competition. I joined the Aisin.Seiki(Toyota group) design team in Japan to work during 3 months as a conceptual design intern on furniture.

Grenoble Area, France

Concept design work on a ski boot + binding project specific to freestyle skier. Worked and collaborated with the R&D team as well as the rider Candide Thovex for this specific project.Created graphic work and content for various project including skis, bindings, boots and other accessories, as well as other industrial design work.

Cergy, France

Worked with the design, engineer and R&D team, on DECT phones, and other mobile accessories.Designed a hands-free kit for mobile phone and it's special energy version for French FM radio station NRJ.

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