Furniture and Object Design for Beginners
Who I am?
A course by Juan Pablo Fuentes , Industrial Designer
Joined July 2018
Joined July 2018
About the video: Who I am?
Overview
“In this lesson I will present myself from my DNA, in the first person, where the focus will be my life, motivations and dreams. I will also make a dynamic step through my professional career.”
In this video lesson Juan Pablo Fuentes addresses the topic: Who I am?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Furniture and Object Design for Beginners. Learn to design a set of furniture and objects from the concept to the model.
Partial transcription of the video
“Hi. How are you? I'm Juan Pablo Fuentes, Industrial designer. I present myself from two points of view. The first, from the personal part, of my DNA, where I am from, where I come from, why I am what I am today and why design as design. And the second, the professional point of view. My achievements, my failures, what I do and what I want to do. But first I want to tell you that I am in my workshop and, if they hear a noise, a sound, people are working, designing, producing what I do now. I hope you don't mind them. I was born in Chillán, a town or city five hours from the capital, Santiago...”
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Course summary for: Furniture and Object Design for Beginners
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Furniture Design & Making, Industrial Design, Retail Design
Juan Pablo Fuentes
A course by Juan Pablo Fuentes
Juan Pablo Fuentes is an industrial designer from Diego Portales University, Santiago de Chile. Founder of the FUENTES+ASOCIADOS brand in 1997, he's developed projects for clients such as: WOOL, CODELCO, MIDEPLAN Government of Chile, COINTER Chile and Spain, VESTO de Arauco, among others.
In 2008, he founded CÓMODO, a pioneering design store focused on the production, manufacturing, and marketing of Chilean designs. He currently collaborates on the editorial project Nuevos Creativos Chilenos, which focuses on showcasing the best talent of the last ten years of design in different specialties; Products (2015), Clothing (2017) and Graphic Design (2019). In 2017, he founded END—Espacio Nacional de Diseño—the first design gallery in Chile, a space to promote, share, and market limited design pieces and design series.
Within the academic field, he is a professor at various Chilean universities, and between 2010 and 2014, he was Director of the School of Design at the Universidad de las Américas (UDLA). He has participated in exhibitions, fairs, conferences, and seminars in Chile and abroad (Argentina, Colombia, Spain, England, Italy, and Peru). What's more, he was involved in developing the radio program on Chilean design called Design for All.
Among his most important awards are the Avonni Award for Kitchen Design (2017), the Innovation in Design Award from the Ministry of Culture (2016), the Designer of the Year Award from ED magazine (2012), and the Fondart Book Contest Prize for Nuevos Creativos Chilenos (2015-2017).
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