Thomas Elliott Burns, Industrial Designer in Los Angeles, CA

About

Thomas Elliott Burns is an industrial designer developing commercial products, furniture, spaces, and lighting.

With extensive experience as the lead of Burns Office, a design studio in Los Angeles, providing comprehensive R&D for manufacturers and other business owners (B2B) in development of superior physical goods. Through the use of design research and iterative prototyping to actualize real products for manufacturers, which are designed with quality, function, and aesthetics in mind.

Currently available for moonlighting and always interested in long term creative partnerships.

Please visit the following website, and feel free to reach out.

www.Burns-Office.com

Education

MFA Master of Product Design

écal

2013 - 2015

www.ecal.ch
BFA Industrial Design

Rhode Island School of Design

2000 - 2004

www.risd.edu

Experience

Founder and Designer

Burns Office

Los Angeles, CA

Jan 2018 - Present (6 years 10 months)

Burns Office is a design studio offering boutique creative services to meet a variety of different needs. We work with companies, manufacturers and with individuals to ideate, develop and plan new products for the market. This work includes a step by step process that leads from initial idea to product launch. We use design research to give us perspective on conceptualization via breadboard style prototyping, sketch renderings, 3D visualization and modeling with advanced surface control that can move directly into tooling. We create top quality technical drawings and can help to facilitate communication with factories abroad or domestically.
Architect's Assistant / Lead Industrial Designer

ALM Project

Los Angeles, CA

Sep 2015 - Present (9 years 2 months)

This is a multi-faceted role providing industrial design services for the Architectural Studio, developing architectural detailing, high quality prototypes, and designs for custom furniture. As well as peripheral products such as place settings, crystal glassware, office desking systems, and service design. Role includes concept development, design engineering, project management, FF&E, sourcing vendors and client facing interactions.
Freelance Designer

5d

Los Angeles, CA

Jan 2008 - Jul 2013 (5 years 6 months)

Freelance position working directly with the principals Mark Saffell and David Ritch to design seating solutions for hospitality and office settings. Focused on 3d development of geometric forms that stack or nest, modular systems, ergonomics, and human factors. This role allowed for serious development of 3d sculpting and surface modeling as well as visualization through rendering.
Industrial Designer

Misaine Inc

Los Angeles, CA

Mar 2005 - Jun 2013 (8 years 3 months)

Initially starting out as a junior industrial designer and quickly growing into a design leadership role, this position included managing a small design team to create innovative tabletop products. Work was generated following a “brief driven” design process, products were developed on a seasonal based timeline and resulted in presentation decks for the clients and tech packs for the factories. Creative development relied heavily on market research and exhaustive ideation sketching, and success was judged by the satisfaction of our corporate clients as well as by sales numbers.

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Thomas Elliott Burns

Assistant Professor - Educator, Industrial Design, Myron E. Ullman, Jr. School of Design

Assistant Professor, Graphic Design