Kaleb Cardenas
Strategic Designer
Madrid, SpainDesign for the pluriverse.
Work Experience
Xccelerate
Chief Experience Officer
Leading Service Design, UX and UI disciplines for all our services. We work as one big force to lead the user-centric mindset through the organisation.
April 2021
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Hong Kong SAR of China
Make Studios
Service Designer
We see strategy as a continuous process of taking action to discover, adapt, lead and grow. Testing your assumptions about the future against the realities of today, strengthens your ability to navigate both.
July 2020
- March 2021
Hong Kong SAR of China
Tecnologico De Monterrey
Remote Design Lecturer
Lecturing remotely from Hong Kong SAR to Mexican industrial designers @ITESM
Approach:
· Focused on strategic design, futuring, and social innovation through design research and sustainable frameworks.
· Manage strategies required to propose new artefacts and services under a trans-disciplinary approach.
· Develop context maps to create futures and human factor solutions involving foresight, speculative, and critical design.
Approach:
· Focused on strategic design, futuring, and social innovation through design research and sustainable frameworks.
· Manage strategies required to propose new artefacts and services under a trans-disciplinary approach.
· Develop context maps to create futures and human factor solutions involving foresight, speculative, and critical design.
July 2020
- June 2021
Mexico
Universidad Anáhuac Puebla
Remote Design Lecturer
I teach the class of Design Trends, which seeks a historical perspective and the analysis of the social, economic, political and cultural factors of our contemporary situation, this is essential to assess the present and project the future so that the designer meets a strategic function always committed to social welfare and the care of our ecosystem.
August 2018
- July 2020
Mexico
Fab Lab Santiago
Head of Design
Design and fabrication of projects related to architecture, industrial design and technological applications that involve sensing and analysis of data. We offer lab prototype fabrication services and use of digital fabrication machines such as CNC, Laser cut and 3D printing.
January 2017
- May 2018
Chile
Designo Patagonia
Jr Industrial Designer
Development of design solutions for interior, lighting, product and furniture products in Patagonia, Argentina.
July 2016
- December 2016
Argentina
Tecnológico De Monterrey ITESM
Assistant Design lecturer
The class imparted searches to make the students understand and be able to use Advanced Design methodologies on different kinds of research. In another block of the semester, the students will learn about Furniture Design that aims towards a sustainable manufacture and optimization of material used that will allow a democratic commercialization of collections and its distribution to the market.
August 2015
- July 2016
Mexico
Centro De Diseño De Oaxaca
Design Leader
· Product design and development
· Work with artisans
· Art direction
· Development of technical drawings and 3D models
· Design and management of production lines
· Work with artisans
· Art direction
· Development of technical drawings and 3D models
· Design and management of production lines
January 2013
- December 2013
Mexico
Education
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Master in Design Strategies
September 2018
- Present
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Carl Malmsten Furniture Studies
Exchange semester
Exchange semester on fine furniture Design education.
January 2012
- June 2012
Stockholm, Sweden
ITESM
Bachelor in Industrial Design
Industrial designer with knowledge to working in different creative fields, such as photography, video, etc. Also trained in advance design research and design thinking.
August 2008
- December 2013
Guadalajara, Mexico
Languages
Spanish (Native),
English (Native),
Italian (Advanced),
French (Conversational),
Japanese (Fluent),
Awards
Red Dot Awards - Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen
Red Dot Concept Design 2016 - Best of the Best, Fahion.
2016
Skills
Adobe Illustrator,
Adobe Indesign,
Adobe Photoshop,
Branding,
Creative Development,
Creative Planning,
Creativity,
Filmmaking,
Fusion360,
Graphic Design,
Industrialdesign,
Interiorism,
Materials,
Photo Manipulation,
Photography,
Premiere Pro,
Processing,
Productdesign,
Rhinoceros 4.0,
Sketching,
Solidworks,
Storytelling,