About me
I am a 26 years old guy that studied Product Design Engineering in Barcelona, my hometown. Even though I enjoyed the technical development of products, somehow I missed not having the chance to be more creative in my job. That's why I decided to leave and do something focused on the creative part rather than on the technical one.
After two years working as a junior R+D Engineer for Altran I decided to move somewhere else and get back to the university again. I moved to Umeå, in the very north of Sweden, and that's the place where I am currently studying and living. I took an introductory course to industrial design and one year later I got accepted at the Interaction Design MA programme. I had no plans to stay in Sweden longer than a year, but when I saw what the guys in interaction design were working on here, I realized that was what I would enjoy.
I am currently on internship at the Designit office in Copenhagen, working with really nice people in an awesome environment. If you like what I do or if you just think you have something to tell me, get in touch!
Curriculum
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Contact information
Jordi Parra
Boyesgade 8
1622 Copenhagen,
Denmark
+45 6042 1532
Education
2008 — present
Interaction Design MA
Umeå Institute of Design
Umeå, Sweden
2007 — 2008
Introduction to Industrial Design
Umeå Institute of Design
Umeå, Sweden
2005 — 2006
Postgraduate in Digital Modeling
Escola Superior de Disseny Elisava
Barcelona, Spain
2002 — 2005
Product Design Engineering
Escola Superior de Disseny Elisava
Barcelona, Spain
Work experience
2010 — present
Interaction Design Intern at Designit.
Copenhagen, Denmark
2005 — 2007
Junior Engineer in Altran: working at the R+D Department of Comexi Group developing flexographic printers.
Girona, Spain
2006
Sporadic freelance works related with engineering projects and renderings.
Barcelona, Spain
2004
Summer intern in ETEC working on the
optimization for production of structural
parts for a new chassis by Nissan.
Granollers, Spain
2004
Sound technician at Radio 7 Vallès and Granollers TV.
Granollers, Spain
Awards and Honours
2006 — 2007
Articles published in On Diseño, Experimenta and other national magazines about the Corian Design Awards.
2006
First Prize at the Corian Design Awards 2006 for the Ensa family of lamps.
2005
Final Degree Project Exhibition.
2004
Selected for the exhibition of the DuPont
Imagineering Prize 2004 in Spain.
Software
I feel comfortable working with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, After Effects and InDesign. I intensively used AutoCAD and Pro/engineer when I was working as an engineer and I have been using Alias and Rhino from time to time.
In addition, I always liked coding in XHTML & CSS and lately I've been having a lot of fun with Arduino, Processing and AsctionScript 3.
Languages
I am fluent in Catalan, Spanish and English and I understand and speak some Swedish, I'm shy though.
