Kaleb Cardenas

Strategic Designer

Madrid, Spain
Design 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 - 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.
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
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

Lexus Design Award

Panel Finalist: Lexus Design Award 2018

2018

Sello Buen Diseño Argentino

Sello Buen Diseño Argentino - Cuecos

2017

Red Dot Awards - Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen

Red Dot Concept Design 2016 - Best of the Best, Fahion.

2016

Red Dot Awards - Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen

Red Dot Concept Design 2014

2014

Dimueble

1st Price Award in National Furniture Competition

2013

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,