Sénamie Steward

I am an Industrial/Products Designer and Developer and I am also working as a Consultant to improve your business and development goals, especially in the Publishing area.
Ready to develop with you new creative products, packagings and also, box sets, board games, special books designs, from the 1st rough, to the 1st white dummy till the 1st manufacturer sample !
For Adults production or for Children toys.
Strong skills in :
- Creative process : Insight-Ideation-Implementation, sketches, templates, 3D images (with Rhino)
- Technical development and economical solution method : Trust, Eco-design, Innovations, complete Request For Quotation with target price, materials, foodgrade and customs issues from Asia
- Creative watches, moodboards, brainstorming and consultancy

Curiosity is not a bad default in Design, quite the contrary.
Contact me to talk about it or for a meet up in your (small or big) company !

Incharge of all the new product and packagings box sets design and development

Topics : Cooking / Arts and Crafts / Toys / Cosmetics
- Creative proposals as a Product Designer + Project Management and product developments of technical and economical solutions in the respect of specifications established with publishers
- Answer to editorial briefings for box sets with book / Packaging / Board games / Special books or packagings/products : Insight-Ideation-Implementation, sketches, materials, templates, 3D images, 3D printings
- Creative watches and advices
- Draft and negociate quotations in English, with quality and production schedules with Chinese or European suppliers
- Follow an Asian pre-production from the first rough to the final white dummy for manufacturing
- Check customs regulations (tariff)
- Check european standards qualities for Chinese products import on European market (food safety - toys - cosmetics)
- Visit factories, printers and international books/packagings/products fairs in Europe and in Asia

- Work directly with lifestyle and cooking publishers (Hachette Pratique)

- Since november 2022, incharge to help other publishing companies to develop their design topics (Marabout, Hazan, 2 Coqs d'or, Hachette licences), especially on the eco-friendly innovations

Single job in the Technical Direction

Topics : Cooking / Arts and Crafts / Toys / Cosmetics
- Take charge with creative proposals as a Product Designer + project management and product developments of technical and economical solutions in the respect of specifications established with publishers as a Project Developper

- Answer to editorial briefings for boxsets with book / Packaging / Board games / Special books or improving existing packagings/products/POS counters : Insight-Ideation-Implementation, sketches, materials, templates, 3D images, 3D printings
- Creative watch in the research department
- Draft and negociate in English quotations, with quality and production schedules with Chinese or European suppliers
- Follow an Asian pre-production from the first rough to the final white dummy for manufacturing
- Check customs regulations and european standards for Chinese products import on European market (food safety - toys - cosmetics)
- Visit factories, printers and international books/packagings/products fairs in Europe and in Asia
- Management of an external free-lance designer

- Work directly with firm publishers Living, Youth and Luxury (Hachette Pratique, Marabout, Deux Coqs d’Or, Gautier Languereau, Le Chêne)

Please, check on Linkedin for what I did before 2012 :
www.linkedin.com/in/senamiesteward