Professional experience
08/2010- 09/2010 Contract Industrial Designer, 88 Inc., San Francisco, USA
- Concept sketches and ideations
- 3-D Alias modeling and rendering
- Product color variation and photo retouch
05/2010- 07/2010 Contract Industrial designer, Y Studios, San Francisco, USA
- Culture & trend research
- Translate concepts to compelling visual solutions
- Alias modeling and HyperShot Bunkspeed rendering
- Concept sketches
06/2005- 02/2006 Industrial designer, Design Life Saver Co., Ltd. (Thailand)
- Conducted ethnographic research for consumer products such as Lux and Ice cream Walls, in Asian markets
- Created value for the English design company to implement further design improvements
- Interpreted Thai product designs to be commercial and feasible for European and Japanese markets
- Involved in research, ideations, liaising with vendors, final product production inspection
Select clients included Seymour Powell, Royal Porcelain, and DEP (Department of Export and Promotion Thailand)
09/2003- 11/2004 Industrial designer, Lawton & Yeo Design Associates, Pte Ltd. (Singapore)
- Worked on Trends and Media Lab team
- Exposed to wide range duties, such as conceptualization, research for Asian Trends booklet, liaison with vendors, product coloration, materials and trims sample search
Select clients included Sony Ericsson
Additional contract work
2005-2006 Industrial Designer, OTOP, Department of Export and Promotion (Thailand)
2005 Designer and liaison with publisher for the booklet, National Renderers Association, Inc. (Hong Kong)
2005 Package designer for Selwyn Cosmetics, Pania International CosmeticsCo., Ltd. (Thailand)
Internships
08/2010- 11/2010 Industrial design intern at Tupperware Head Quarters, USA
01/2010- 06/2010 Industrial design intern at Shook Design, USA
Honors/ Publications
2010 Dwell on Design, Asia Now, Exploring Design Culture, Avo: fruit holder, LA, USA
2010 Featured work in La Fabrica Delle Idee for international design auctions, Italy, The Intelligent
Hand, Avo: fruit holder & Coral: Asian dining ware, Italy
2010 Short listed for Macef Design Award Massimo Martini, The Intelligent Hand, Italy, Avo: fruit holder & Coral: Asian dining ware
2008 Selected IDSA Student Mixer connecting exhibition, Serene, biosensor stress therapy device for the home
2005 OTOP Product Development for Export, Selected product to be feautured on the cover of the booklet, Thailand, Avocado Fruit Holder
2003 Feautured and published work in Manager Newspaper, Thailand, Naree, Fusion of ceramics and silver jewelry wear
2003 Broadcasted work on Thailand's chanel 5, Tee Nee Pratase Thai (Here in Thailand), Naree
2002 Department of Industrial Promotion, Thailand, Final selected jewelry competitors for golden jewelry design award
Education
2006- 2009 MFA, Industrial Design, Academy of Art University, San Francisco, USA
1998- 2003 B.I.D., Industrial Design, Faculty of Architecture, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Skills
Alias Studio Tools, Alias Image Studio, Hypershot Bunkspeed, Rhinoceros, Adobe Illustraor, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Premier Pro, Microsoft Powerpoint, Microsoft Word, Apple Keynote, Fluent with both Mac and PC
Hobby
Cooking, snowboarding, water color painting, photography, and traveling
Pinpach Piyatiratitivorakul is an experienced designer. Recently, interned at Tupperware Headquarters, Orlando, working on product concepts and 3-D modeling and prototyping. Previously she interned with Shook Design in Silicon Valley, building prototypes/physical models of medical devices.
She does contract work as an Industrial Designer for 88 Inc, creating design concepts and 3D models and renderings for presentations of luxurious technological goods. Previously she was at Y Studios in San Francisco as a contract Industrial Designer doing web-based design research and created compelling visual solutions for presentations.
Her prior international experience included time at Lawton & Yeo (Singapore) as a Designer/ Visual Trends Analyst, focusing on lifestyle and behavior to translate them into compelling visual solutions for product conceptualization, and an opportunity in Thailand with Design Life Saver and the Department of Export and Promotion, conducting ethnographic research for mass market consumer products.
Her work has received positive attention. Design projects for Coral and Avo Fruit Holder
were shortlisted in Macef Design Award Massimo Martini, The Intelligent Hand, Italy, 2010. Avo appeared in Dwell on Design, Asia Now, Exploring Design Culture in LA, and other design websites and magazines.
Pinpach completed her MFA and an undergraduate degree in Industrial Design.
pinpach resume 2011
