Timo Silvonen
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Award-winning design, ergonomics, usability and styling of hi-tech for Planmeca, Nokia, Fujitsu-Siemens, Kone, Metso etc.
Colors, materials, finishes and beauty close to the heart. Experienced in injection molding, metal casts, profiles, sheet metal, even cast glass. Only materials not used in present job are stone and wood.
PRO/E, SolidWorks, Rhino, Showcase, Keyshot, Sketchbook Pro, 3DS MAX, I-DEAS, Illustrator, Photoshop, MS Office. Pens and paper work too.
Outgoing, adapts well. Fluent English.
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Education
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Master of Arts Industrial DesignUniversity of Art and Design Helsinki UIAH1998
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Experience
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Senior Industrial designerHelsinki, FinlandJun 2005 - Present (19 years 4 months)Senior Industrial designer of high-tech dental care units and digital imaging products.
- Industrial design for dental equipment, treatement centers, dental mills, light, work stool...
- Created Planmeca color chart and spectrophotometer measuring guide with tolerances
- Co-created plastic and silicone materials, part design, finishes and subcontracting guide
- Implemented digital sketching, ergonomic foam model making and 3D-scanning / reverse engineering methods -
Contract Industrial designerIcontec OyHelsinki, FinlandMar 2005 - Jun 2005 (3 months)Engineering consultancy.
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Mentor, Product design partSouth KoreaMar 2003 - Feb 2004 (11 months)An additional pre-graduation program for ~50 selected Korean university design students. Mentored product design. Evaluated applicants. Reported to program manager.
- Guided students in Global Design Project "Smart Office"
- Guided Samsung concept design projects, Time management, Project planning -
Invited professor of Product Design, Faculty of DesignSouth KoreaMar 2003 - Feb 2004 (11 months)Invited professor of Product Design, Faculty of Design, College of Fine Arts.
- Built and taught courses: Form & Structure, Form Psychology, Ecological Design, Imagination and Expression.
- Evaluated MA thesises.
- Gave special lectures around Korea.
- Researched Korean industrial design business. -
Senior designer and marketing director5D muotoilutoimisto OyHelsinki, FinlandOct 1998 - Feb 2003 (4 years 4 months)Industrial design consultancy, Helsinki. Managed complete accounts. Directed design, usability and multimedia projects. Created three years of company budgets. Wrote and art directed all marketing material.
Some design project highlights:
- Fujitsu-Siemens Computers: Stylized and 3D-modelled PC bezels for injection moulding
- Neste Advanced Power Systems: designed and subcontracted a hydrogen fuel cell
- KONE: Wrote a visual product design manual for MicroSpace elevator and shaft design.
- Metso: Created "OptiUI" a graphic user interface system for paper machine local controls. -
Intern, freelancer. Product designsVaajakallio Design OyLohja, FinlandMay 1995 - Dec 1996 (1 year 7 months)Design consultancy. Products, graphics, concepts.
- Nokia Telecommunications: designed, drafted and built models for cabinets, power module
- Finndent: designed and built models for dental chair, instrument module, compressor box
- Soredex: visualized product concepts for dental X-ray scanner
- Halton MiniCan, drink can recycling machine: designed mechanics and product graphics
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Awards
Planmeca Lumo stool for dentistry: iF design award 2016
Planmeca Sovereign Classic dental unit: Fennia Prize Honorary Mention 2014
Planmeca Sovereign dental unit: red dot award: product design 2009, Fennia Prize 2009 Honorary Mention, iF design award China 2007 Top Selection.
Metso OptiConcept: Pro Finnish Design 1999 Honorary Mention. Mitsubishi Motors Design Competition 1998: First Prize. Nokia 447 DTC monitor design: Winner 1997. -
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On Coroflot@timo_silvonen, member since 2002
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