Grazina Bockute

Industrial Designer

Klaipeda, Lithuania

Work Experience

Lithuanian Design Forum

Executive director

Lithuanian Design Forum promotes Lithuanian design and business. LDF represents the interests of its members as well as the wider Lithuanian design community that includes cultural, political and education institutions. LDF is actively structuring Lithuanian design policy and consulting public authorities.
My key responsibilities were:
▪️ Overseeing the development of the Lithuanian design exhibition cycle DesignLithuania which represents Lithuania's creative potential and encourages inbound tourism. I was the main organizer, curator and exhibition designer. Exhibitions thus far:
· Lithuanian design pavilion at Budapest design week 2019
· House of creativity 2020 at Museum Quartier in Vienna
▪️ Organising the annual national Good Design awards ceremony and exhibition.
· Roles: main curator and exhibition designer.
▪️ Organising and coordinating Design Week Lithuania festival.
▪️ Organising other projects and events that promote the relevance of design, including Dear Business, Meet Design, Design tours, Design auction, as well as annual meetings for members of Lithuanian Design Forum.
▪️ Establishing new partnerships, continuously promoting international cooperation with other foreign organizations, representing the design sector at national and international events.
January 2019 - July 2020 Lithuania

NoPicnic

Industrial Design Intern

Contributed in projects for some of NoPicnic's most important clients e.g. Ericsson, Victorinox, Evoko, Capwings and WNGMN.
August 2018 - October 2018 Sweden

HoPro

Industrial Design Intern

Worked with HoPro company which specializes in manufacturing high quality holographic displays.
Created a new holograph design, made technical drawings for manufacturing, became known with metal manufacturing field, cardboard packaging.

HoPro work in Business Hive Vilnius which is one of the oldest startup incubator and technology hubs in the Baltics. Having to work in this environment gave me ideal possibilities to see how startups are created and how they work.

Co-worked with Danil Ščepanov.
June 2017 - August 2017

Education

Vilnius Academy Of Arts

Industrial design

September 2014 - June 2018 Vilnius, Lithuania

Languages

English (Fluent),
Lithuanian (Native),
Spanish (Conversational),
Russian (Beginner),

Awards

JDP

Young Designer Prize

2018

Skills

Adobe, Adobe, Advertising, Advertising, Animation, Animation, Animation, Animation, App, App, App, Art, Concept Design, Concept Design, Concept Design, Design, Drawing, Drawing, Furniture Design, Furniture Design, Furniture Design, Furniture Design, Game Design, Game Design, Game Design, Graphic Design, Illustration, Illustration, Illustrator, Illustrator, Indesign, Indesign, Industrial, Keyshot, Keyshot, Logo Design, Logo Design, Logo Design, Logo Design, Photography, Photography, Photoshop, Photoshop, Product Design, Prototyping, Prototyping, Rapid, Rapid, Rapid, Research, Solidworks, Solidworks, Video Editing, Video Editing, Video Editing,