Berk Ilhan

Industrial Designer

New York, NY, USA
Berk İlhan is an award-winning industrial designer specializing in innovation and emotive design. Leveraging 10 years of experience across a wide range of projects, from home goods to medical devices to service robotics, Ilhan has fortified his ability to marry aesthetic artistry and innovation while keeping business objectives top-of-mind. Portfolio includes a range of invented and designed physical, digital, and hybrid products, along with fully immersive experiences, for healthcare, robotics, consumer goods and electronics, apparel, and exhibitions. Awards include iF Award, IDA, and Red Dot Award, and many others. Berk enjoys working closely with his clients to distill business objectives into exciting, thoughtful, seamless, intuitive design experiences.

Work Experience

10xBeta

Chief Design Officer

July 2015 - July 2017 Brooklyn, New York, United States

10xBeta

Innovation and Strategy Lead

July 2017 - July 2018 New York, United States

Berk Ilhan Design

Freelance Designer

July 2018 - Present Brooklyn, New York, United States

Education

Middle East Technical University

Bachelor of Science

September 2008 - June 2012 Ankara, Turkey

School Of Visual Arts (SVA)

Master of Fine Arts

September 2013 - Present New York, New York, United States

Languages

English (Fluent),
Turkish (Native),
German (Conversational),

Awards

Industrial Designers Society Of America (IDSA)

Finalist

2014

Industrial Designers Society Of America (IDSA)

Finalist

2013

IF

Special Hansgrohe Award, 1st Prize

2012

IMMIB

2nd Prize

2011

A'Design Award

Silver Idea

2013

A'Design Award

Silver Futuristic

2013

Automotive Component Design Competition,

3r Prize

2013

Skills

Adobe Aftereffect, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, Branding, Design Research, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Human-Centered Design, Industrial Design, Keyshot, Rhino, Service Design, Story Telling, System Modeling, Visual Design,