Story |
Since I was a kid, I always enjoyed drawing, creating or just pinning nails into the wooden planks at my father’s workshop. Fifteen years later I have found myself doing just the same thing, except instead of hearing “Hey lad, good job with the nails, but it was quite windy, wasn’t it?” I should receive (hopefully) Master degree.
Questions like – how does it work and why – were typical for my childhood and kind of stuck with me until today, where I use them maybe even more frequently. (Still trying convince myself that it is normal) It were these questions which brought me to university – the opportunity to understand how the things work and the chance to design them better. Studying Industrial design shows me different perspectives how to perceive design itself and its impact on our lives. At university, I have the pleasure to be with inspiring people, learn from them and develop our concepts together. I have found that Service design is very close to the Industrial design, because everything around us is somehow designed and it is not about the shape, but how does it work and how it interacts with us, no matter on the type of the outcome. Due to fast changing environment, creating new job titles/positions it is a bit complicated to put myself in exact position and I think that they are kind of blending together, so there is no exact definition and that is why I see myself as multi-disciplinary designer. |
Work |
2016 Jun - now
Art Director at BeWooden I have the pleasure to be part of amazing team and create beautiful new products. Between my responsibilities belong looking for business opportunities, development of new products, brand direction and creating on/offline graphic templates 2016 Jun - 2016 Sep UX Design Intern at LMC I have been part of team who was responsible for developing new service at company, which is job portal number one in Czech Republic, helping people find their dream jobs, select the most suitable colleagues and in education services. Personally I helped with developing Jobote, service aims to help find and hire new people by personal recommendation. It concerned customer testing, creating user stories, testing prototypes and improving the way it interacts with clients. 2014 Aug - 2015 Aug Design Intern at System Design studio One year in design studio had big impact upon me and my work experience. Just the beginning – pushed myself to find studio with knowing only one word in Spanish – Hola! I participated in many projects, from small handcrafted products for locals to big installations like Beijing design week or big stands at international Barcelona fairgrounds. 2013 - 2016 Feb Product designer at Laser game Brno We took care of developing wide range of products connected to Laser Game Company. With technical support, we have started with developing new type of vests and our cooperation continued with laser tag pistols which were also mine bachelor thesis and it’s currently in production. 2012 Sep - now Freelance designer Creating of graphic publications, prints, brand identities, illustrations and developing new products for various companies. 2000 - 2012 Craftman at Father's workshop Occasional support of my father in his workshop. Started with hammering nails into the wooden planks, but as time went, I have tried something more helpful like lathe, band saw, milling machine, broaching cutter, CNC, 3D printer, etc. |
Education |
2014 - now
Industrial Design at BUT, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Master's Degree Most of the subjects aim to design process and every aspect of it – analysis, problem evaluation, sketching, prototyping, testing, visualization and physical model. 2011 - 2014 Industrial Design at BUT, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Bachelor's Degree First three years were primarily marked with a lot of technical drawings, physics, mechanics and lot of more fun subjects mixed with basics of drawing, modeling, graphic and product design. Yey. |
Awards |
Best Business Idea at Innovation Center, Brno
our idea was Conected & Clever food system and we were supposed to come with solution on subject 'How to better spend our time' Tatra vision 2020 at Tatra, Top final three, Koprivnice with concept based on Hybrid engine Exhibiton at Czech Design Week, Prague with Wofle, Visual communication |
Skills |
Creative mind – Keen to learn something new every day
Service design UX (creating digital prototypes) – Axure HCD Taking notes of not working products 24/7 (thinking how to recreate them) Print – InDesign Editing Images – Adobe Photoshop Illustrations, Graphic sketches – Adobe Illustrator Digital sketches – SketchBook 3D Modelling – Rhinoceros 3D, 3Ds Max, SolidWorks, Slic3r Visualisation – KeyShot, Vray Creating physic models – Hands (my own) |
Treats |
Read books, articles about clever and beautiful solutions or meaning of life
Be adventurous = do quick & stupid decisions Coffee, coffee, coffee Wonder at foreign cities and getting known them, by eating as much food as possible Get stuck on Pinterest & Instagram and call it Productive time Did I mention coffee enough? |