Ascanio Afan de RiveraCostaguti

Ascanio Afan de RiveraCostaguti

System DesignerLondon, United Kingdom
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Ascanio Afan de RiveraCostaguti

Ascanio Afan de RiveraCostaguti

System DesignerLondon, United Kingdom
About me
Industrial designer with experience in product and research design, who has a human centered design approach and interests in innovative technologies.
Projects
  • Ruism Set
    Ruism SetThis pottery set, looks at the social transformation which China is going through. A transformation which is disrupting the fundamentals of their culture, transiting from a confucianism culture, where life and work are shared, to western culture of individualism. Ruism set is based on, arguably, one of the most confucians dishes Chinese cuisine can offer, “Hot Pot”, the plate associated for connecting memories of family meeting and friends reunions, consists on a central cooking pot, with boil
  • Falling in French
    Falling in FrenchFall in French, is a Lounge chair proposed to Roche Bobois, with it, we investigate the future of home furniture, and propose a system that allows users to have the sensation of falling and rapidly getting hold, the reason for this estrange functionality is to harvest the peak of relax sensation gained after a burst of adrenaline, which allow the person to relax further more. Additionally, the chair when use, close around the user for an additional feeling of coziness. The overall shape, is in
  • EKey
    EKeyThe management of healthcare appointments for homeless has been a weak link in the government’s housing program currently in place, as they rely partially on the beneficiaries to self-manage them, and additionally, a steady growth of this population, will cause capacity problems to the current institutions. In order to bridge this issue, I have designed EKey, which is a service designed for Homeless that tries to solve it by relying on a cloud computing platform, which is conceived to administr
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Work history
    Industrial Designer
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    Researching with Assa Ashuach boundaries of high end additive manufacturing for mass market products and optimizing internet platforms for allowing personalization and optimizing connections between designer > customer > manufacturer > customer. Furthermore, in the process we analyzed market areas which allowed economical sustainability of products manufactured with this technology, production procedure and finishings.
    Product Designer
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    Demonstrated teamwork skills and briefing interpretation for developing merchandising products and packages for leading brands in Latin-America, the industries varied from luxury liquors to cellphones. The products had to be designed, based on the briefing provided by the client, following the brand’s guidelines, adding innovative features and considering manufactured process. At the same time managing to have the production cost as low as possible without looking cheap.
Skills
  • Design
  • Excel
  • Illustrator
  • Indesign
  • Office
  • Photoshop
  • Service Design
  • 3ds Max V-ray
  • 3D Printing
  • Product Industrial Design
  • Package Design
  • Strategy Development
  • Rhino 5
  • Social Innovation
  • 3D Printing Rendering
Education
    MA Industrial Design
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    Renowned course, based on human centered design, applied to design research and development through agile methodology, under the tuition of Nicholas Rhodes, Ralph Ball and Stephen Hayward. The program consisted in applying human centered techniques as trending, ethnography, storytelling plots, between others, on our selfinitiated research, throughout a variety of short projects, with clients as Roche Bobois and Committee Colbert, as well as internal activities and culminating in a 1 year long project.
    Industrial Design
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    Degree based on Bauhaus teaching methods, which gave me excellent skills and ability to conduct design process. It gave me the ability to create and innovative designs, by clearly communicating them through the use of sketching, modeling, 3D Modeling and CAD design skills.