Educational Institutions

Work Experience

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INDEX S.A. Metalmecanic factory for the production of displays and furniture Roll: Industrial DesignerActivity: Design and development of metallic products, industrial processes planning, quality control and project managementDuration: July 2011 - June 2012

BRANDERS MERCADEO / www.branderscr.com Event planning company, stands and publicity Roll: Stand and Graphic DesignerActivity: Design, digital renders, technical drawings, spacial distributionDuration: March 2012 - Dicember 2012

ELETE CREATIVE / www.eletecreative.comDesign engineering and point of purchase Roll: Industrial DesignerActivity: Sketching, graphic design, renders, technical drawings for production, store interior design, special project developmentDuration: June 2012 - July 2013

OLTRE FRONTIERA PROGETTI / www.oltrefrontieraprogetti.itDesign and production of window displays Roll: Industrial DesignerActivity: Sketching, renders, technical drawings, prototyping, quotation, produc-tion management, packaging and logisticsDuration: 21/04/2014 to 17/10/2014

CANAL CREATIVO S.A. / www.canalcreativosa.comIndustrial Design Agency for point of purchase profucts Roll: Industrial and Graphic Designer Activity: Design, digital renders and technical drawings for the development of molds for the thermoforming of displays in plastic and metal Duration: February 2009 - June 2011

• 19/10/2013 BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN PRODUCT DESIGN at UNIVERSI-DAD VERITAS (SAN JOSE DE COSTA RICA - COSTA RICA)Awarded with the �rst mention of honor for a graduation project in the history of the careerwww.veritas.cr

• From 2013 until todayMASTERS DEGREE in DESIGN & ENGINEERING at POLITEC-NICO DI MILANOwww.polimi.it

• From 2013 until todayHIGHER EDUCATION COURSE and DOUBLE DEGREE in ECO DESIGN at POLITECNICO DI TORINO in ALTA SCUOLA POLITECNICAwww.asp-poli.it

Nationality: ColombiaDate of birth: 28/08/1990Residence: MilanCell: +393400010287Email: felipe1.hernandez@mail.polimi.it

FELIPE HERNÁNDEZ V.industrial designer

Languages

Computer Skills

Personal and Professional Interests

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• ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OF METALS

• URBAN AGRICULTURE

• BIOMIMICRY IN INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS

• ARTS AND MUSIC

• WATERCOLOR PAINTING, PENCIL DRAWING AND INDUSTRIAL DESIGN SKETCHING

• TRAVELING, CULTURE AND PEOPLE

• SOCIAL WORK

• SPANISH Writing: Mother toungue Speaking: Mother toungue• ENGLISH Writing: Excellent Speaking: Excellent• ITALIAN Writing: Good Speaking: Excellent

• OPERATING SYSTEMS Softwares: Windows Mac OS• APPLICATION OF WORD PROCESSING Softwares: Microsoft Word Microsoft Power Point Adobe InDesign• SPREADSHEETS Softwares: Microsoft Excel• CAD SYSTEMS Softwares: Autodesk Inventor Austodesk Maya SolidWorks PTC CREO / Pro-Egineering Rhinoceros / Grasshopper Wings 3D• RENDERING SYSTEMS Softwares: Bunkspeed Shot Vray for Rhinoceros Luxion Keyshot• GRAPHIC SYSTEMS Softwares: Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe After Effects Autodesk Sketchbook Pro

FELIPE HERNÁNDEZ V.industrial designer

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“Design is the way to apply technical knowledge through creativity; innovation generates value and new opportunities. Discipline and experience is what I look for as a professional” - FHV

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INDEX

Elipsis

Movistar Float

Wu Air Conditioner

Hexagro

Oltre Frontiera Progetti

Pumpspray

Work in Progress

Caracol

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Recording Studio Furniture Metabo Promotional Van

I present you a showcase of my most representative proj-ects. Chronologically in or-der, they show the progress I’ve done through the years as an Industrial Designer. 4 8 12

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ELIPSIS 2011

Elipsis started with a mar-ket investigation aiming for a new “movable toy” concept that was able to suit both chil-dren and adults. The project took place in a design course in which the product had to be developed from sketches to a functional prototype.An extensive analysis of the user through polls led to a product based on the ellip-tical bicycle found in gyms but movable. Several tests of the system were necessary to make it work. The toy proto-type that had a lot of success in the course and subsequent presentations.

Year: 2011Author: Felipe Hernández V.University: Universidad VeritasCourse: Product Design III

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A poll to 150 persons between 14 and 35 years old was made and its analysis determined that they prefer an innovative product, a different way of riding bicycles. I got inspired from the elliptical bicycles to do exercise.

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After the design was defined the initial construction took place digitally, drawing every component with high detail. The technical drawings and templates were useful for a precise construction of the prototype which I

supervised personally and assisted in every moment.

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The prototype was fully functioning and it had great success between the public. Kids, teenagers and adults were riding it as expected. Although it had some mechanisms that could’ve being improved, it was presented in an

innovation fair.

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RECORDING STUDIO SPECIALIZED FURNITURE

In this project Von Kelemen Music Group asked for two recording studio furniture lines that suited standardized sized electronic devices for audio engineering.

There were two concept lines: classic and contempo-rary style. Only the classic version was fabricated for commercialization but the other design line is perfectly capable of being produced.

The production of the furni-ture was supervised by me. The parts were produced with CNC cutting to make the assembly more precise.

Year: 2011Author: Felipe Hernández V.Company: Canal Creativo S.A.Client: VonKelmen Music Group

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The client was very satisfied with the result of the project, asking for two other classical line desks and selling them to different buyers.

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METABO PROMOTIONAL VAN

This special project was developed for Capris, an industrial manufacturing tool supplier. They have a repre-sentation of the worldwide known power tools company Metabo, so they asked us to develop a design in which we would provide a promo-tional van to show the pow-er tools around Costa Rica’s factories. This van needed brand communication and an electric adaptation to connect the power tools for demonstrations. The van was successfully delivered.

Year: 2012Author: Felipe Hernández V.Company: Elete CreativeClient: Capris Group

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This was a very interesting experience given all the limitations and regula-tions that a vehicle of this kind has, its success was the result of the hard work

together with several employees of the company.

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MOVISTAR FLOAT

This design was requestedby the publicity agency Tribufor the “Festival de la Luz2012”, a festival of lights that takes place in Costa Rica every year. The client was Movistar a cellphone multinational, and they de-veloped a concept based on the communication between people using cellphones. We were in charge of giving life to this concept, designing and developing from the cos-tumes to the appearance of the float. We won the third place.

Year: 2012Author: Felipe Hernández V.Company: Elete CreativeClient: Movistar

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In this project I had to work together with technicians and engineers to develop the different mechanisms of the float, being in direct contact with dif-ferent professionals made this multidisciplinary experience very constructive.

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HEXAGRO

This thesis addresses the problem to grow vegetables in urban spaces. In the course of the investigation the funda-mental problems are deter-mined like the efficiency of traditional crops, the space they use and the costs they require. The answer to these problems was given with an aeroponic technique system that enables a geometrical configuration to grow an ef-ficient crop. Hexagro is de-fined as a module unit that can be configured in several ways, for example as a tree (main configuration).

Year: 2012Author: Felipe Hernández V.University: Universidad VeritasCourse: Product Design VI

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The first stage of the project was a geometric analysis to look for the most efficient configuration for the optimization of the space. The study was based on natural configurations present in plants determining different kind of strategies depending on the need of the system,

for this design I employed the spiral, the bifurcation and the explosive configurations inside a hexagonal 2D point space.

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The second stage of the project was to make this bi-dimensional analysis become a tri-dimensional one. With a subsequent study of 3D polyhedra, it was determined that the equivalent of an hexagon (the most efficient geometrical figure in a 2D space) was the truncated

octahedron which adapted in all the different configurations and provided an efficient spatial distribution for the modules.

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This project was developed in the course of 4 months. I worked full-time on it being helped by entities as the INA (national learning institute) for the thermoforming of the pieces and other persons and factories that helped me to build the 1:1 scale prototype. For this, I

was awarded with the first mention of honor for a graduation project in the history of the university career.

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PUMPSPRAY

This project started as the re-engineering of an oil sprayer for industrial use. The objective was to detect a specific problem and focus on that to create a sprayer that could have another use. In this case we focused on the ergonomics of the sprayer due to its uncomfortable grip and pump. We designed a sprayer that could be used only with one hand maintain-ing the balance of the weight and letting the user to oper-ate it while doing gardening and cleaning labors.

Year: 2013Author: Felipe Hernández V. Alessandro Zecca Daniel JacobsenUniversity: Politecnico di MilanoCourse: Product Design and Devel-opment I

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The aesthetics and “how to use” were factors in which we focused the proj-ect, nevertheless, the engineering aspect of it is the most interesting one as we had to design the parts considering production aspects and materials.

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The sprayer construction was digital and every single component was drew to guarantee its real functioning. The plastic production parts were reviewed

by a material engineer that checked its design.

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We used a functional model to test the different pumps, weight factors and ergonomic configurations until we found the right proportions. The sprayer design was well reviewed for its attractive shape and ergonomic features.

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CARACOL

Caracol is a design con-cept developed for the italian illumination-design company Artemide. The main purpose of the project was to design a lighting system for the home and office to exploit shape memory alloy materials tech-nology. This system would be able to “roll up” for a diffuse light or “roll down” for a di-rect light, changing its shape by the activation of SMA wires in the sides.

Year: 2013Author: Felipe Hernández V. Leonardo Poma Davide Pecchini Giovanni MichelaUniversity: Politecnico di MilanoCourse: Criteria for the selection and use of materials Advisor Company: Artemide

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The flexibility and elegance of this design in a work environment would pro-vide comfort to the user choosing the desired amount of light in an interactive

and innovative way.

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The SMA wires are inside the electric cable sheath that is made from a silicon material to resist the heat that wires produce when activated. There are two wires because one works for rolling up and the other one does the

opposite.

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Its simplicity and innovative mechanisms adapt well to Artemide’s request. The project received good comments from the professors and tutors from the

company which supported technically its development.

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WU - AIR CONDITIONER

Wu is a development of a new kind of air condition-er for the chinese electro-domestic manufacturer Mid-ea which looked to change the common mode of use and aesthetics of the normal product. Our concept was to change the plastic cover for a flexible and organic one. We chose Barrisol, a flexi-ble plastic to let the internal components define the shape and at the same time let light pass through due to this ma-terial transparency.

Year: 2014Author: Felipe Hernández V. Alessandro Zecca Tiago Rego HenriquesUniversity: Politecnico di MilanoCourse: Product Design and Devel-opment IIAdvisor Company: Midea

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The engineering of the air conditioner included every component in an ap-proximate way as we did not count this time with an engineering team that could review the design to be very precise. All the components though, were

designed contemplating fabrication processes.

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OLTRE FRONTIERA PROGETTI / INTERNSHIP

Oltre Frontiera Progetti is a company specialized in the production of window shops for several brands as Hugo Boss, Armani, Versace, etc. designing every article for the installations worldwide. My duty in the company as an industrial and graphic designer was designing and drawing the different con-cepts the clients brought to make them industrially pro-duced. This is my first euro-pean work experience that lasted for 6 months in Milan.

Year: 2014Author: Felipe Hernández V.Company: Oltre Frontiera Progetti Duration: 17 april - 17 october

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I used to sketch the concept and then draw in 3D the window shops to make renders to present to the client. These drawings had to be modified

constantly due to the client requests until they were ready to engineer.

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In this window shop several proposals were presented to the client and after one was chosen its fabrication was planned. This was is for Coin Rome and

I supervised its production and installation.

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CITY CAR - QUADRICYCLE / Work in progress 2014

This project started by the request of the italian compa-ny Ducati Energia to improve a current quadricycle devel-oped for post delivery and car sharing. In our design brief the main feature is the frontal aperture of the vehicle to reduce parking space, in-crease security and generate a different mode of use. The project is currently on devel-opment and it will be finished until 2015 when it will have to be totally engineered.

Year: 2014Author: Felipe Hernández V. Arianna Antognazza Giovanni Michela Stefano Zugno Manuel PascualvacaUniversity: Politecnico di MilanoCourse: Product Design and Develop-ment IIIAdvisor Company: Ducati Energia

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This project is part of the Alta Scuola Politecnica pro-gram in which I’m working currently since one year with 6 other students from different engineering back-grounds to investigate the additive manufacturing for metals and evaluate how the italian company Prima Indus-trie could get in this market for producing machines. The project is planned to be fin-ished in december 2015.

Year: 2014Author: Felipe Hernández V. Gianluca Nicosia Andrea Pavanello Arianna Decateno Veronica Zelda Franceso MajaUniversity: Alta Scuola PolitecnicaAdvisor Company: Prima Industrie

ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OF METALS - LAMP / Work in progress 2014

The images above are an example of the output of the project, they have not been made by me or anyone related to LAMP. Its planned to produce one part for the biomedical field, one topology optimization of a part and one

part for jewelry applications.

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