Benjamin Pritz

Moto / Bike

As the lead industrial designer for Bollé my main focus is designing & developing snow/cycling helmets, lifestyle & performance eyewear, and snow goggles.

I'm also defining & executing the new Bollé physical design language system.

As an industrial designer for VISTA OUTDOOR my main focus is designing & developing head protection for specialty & mass market cycling helmets under the BELL Brand.

I'm responsible for a variety of design & engineering tasks such as but not limited to:

Human Factors, fit, function, aesthetics, design for manufacturing.

Analog & digital sketching, rendering, & technical drawings

Experience developing product with overseas vendors.

Design & engineering of production CAD parts, injection molding, cut & sew, compression molding, etc. as it relates to helmet development.

Color, material, finish

Electronic component integration & development into helmets.

Rapid production & visualization of innovative & practical solutions to even the most complex helmet design challenges.

In-depth helmet design research

Helmet scaling: direct & differential

Familiarity with testing standards: CPSC, CE, ASTM 1492

Extremely fast high quality 3D models (Solidworks) photorealistic rendering & animations (Keyshot).

Foam modeling, clay modeling, functional mock-ups, appearance models.

High quality presentations & story boarding.

While at Mindflow Design I had the opportunity to design a wide variety of products for the medical/ bio-med, action sports, soft-good, and consumer electronics industries.

I learned how to do fast product development while hitting the mark for the client.

I was responsible for a variety of design consultancy tasks such as but not limited to:

Rapid production and visualization of innovative and practical solutions to even the most complex design challenges.

In-depth design research

Extremely fast high quality 3D models (Solidworks) photorealistic rendering and animations (Keyshot).

Client and vendor management.

Maintenance and operator of the in-house Alaris 30 3D printer.

Foam modeling, functional mockups, appearance models.

High quality client presentations and story boarding.

My last semester was spent snowboarding in VT and designing snowboard products for the 2011 season.

Worked alongside product managers and engineers to create innovative solutions for all product categories including: bindings, boots, gloves, packs, luggage, and outerwear.

Product testing