Pascal BARDEL

Sequoia-studio

Creative, determined and passionate I am a French product designer living in China since 2002. I co-founded in 2007 my product design agency: Sequoia-studio Limited. Based in Hong Kong and in France, Sequoia studio offers qualitative services in industrial design and consulting. With a strong sense of market trend, a good knowledge of manufacturing process and financial constraints, I put my skills and expertise at your service, to bring you innovative and relevant solutions in product design.

2007-present: SEQUOIA-STUDIO LIMITED, Hong Kong (China) www.sequoia-studio.com
Position: Associate director and co-founder of Sequoia-studio Limited
-Industrial design
-Prototyping
-Follow-up
-Web site
-3D rendering and 3D turntable animation both with photorealistic approach
-Coaching/consulting in industrial design.

2002-2007: ZOO DESIGN-INTERFORCE GROUP, Zhongshan (China) www.interforcegroup.com
Position: Product designer-Team leader
-Responsible for recruiting and leading a design team of 10 designers
-Identify styling trends market and customer needs for the team
-Drawing up the product design programs according with the marketing department and the art director
-Hand sketches/3D development/3D rendering/scale model making
-Illustration and rendering for presentation of products concepts
-Production follow-up with our engineer department and the factories

1999 January-march: PHILIPPE PARENT's studio, Paris (France) www.philippe-parent.fr
Position: Home decorator-designer internship
-Furnitures creation.
-Layout for particular apartments.

1997 August: AVANT PREMIERE design agency, Lyon (France) www.avantpremiere-graphic.com
Position: Product designer internship
-Working on a billiard for children aged from 7 to 14 years for MONNERET:
-Product conception.
-Technical scale model and forms layout.

1995 July: EDDS design agency, Lyon (France) www.edds.fr
Position: Product designer internship
-Technical scale model of a stand for the firm ABB in order to participate to a contest.
-Conception of a pre-study on the terrace tables market for the firm GROSFILLEX :
oConcurrency analysis.
oResearch of new concepts of folding tables.
oPropositions with sketches, different formal researches.

1998-2001: STRATE COLLEGE, Issy les Moulineaux (France) www.stratecollege.fr
Master degree of industrial/product design
2001: Graduated with honor
Erasmus exchange with the industrial design University of Valencia CEU San Pablo, SPAIN

1994-1998: Arts Appliqués Bellecour, Lyon (France) www.bellecour.fr
BTS of Product designer (University Advanced Vocational Diploma)
1998: Graduated
Diploma of product design-Arts Appliques Bellecour
1997: Graduated with honor

COMPUTERS
2D: Photoshop, Illustrator, In-design
3D: Solid Works, Rhinoceros, 3ds max, Maxwell render

LANGUAGES
French: native
English: fluent
Mandarin/Cantonese: notion

SKILLS
-Skilled at project planning and driving schedules for on-time project completion
-Strong teamwork and good communication skills
-Good hand-sketching, rendering and illustrating
-Excellent knowledge in 3D modeling and 3D rendering
-Knowledge of materials/injection molding plastics/design processes/production processes
-Highly motivated, creative and determined
-Strong sense of market trend, consumer behavior and brand image
-Strong organization skills