1985
Experienced Design & Prototyping Consultant with a demonstrated history of working in the arts, design and production industries.
Skilled in linking innovative concepts with real-world potential.
Strong operations management professional with a MA focused on Design Products from the London Royal College of Art.
CV
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2019 - 2021 : Design manager, (current) at GiRiNZU, Paris, France.
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2018 - 2019 : Design & Prototyping manager, (18 months) at StationF - TECHSHOP ALM, Paris, France.
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2017 - 2018 : FabLab deployment manager, (12 months) at StationF - TECHSHOP ALM, Paris, France.
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2016 - 2017 : Dream consultant [innovative project coach] (12 months) at TECHSHOP ALM, Paris, France.
2012 - 2015 : Design & Fabrication manager, (38 months) BEGUM STUDIO, London UK.
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2010 - 2012 : Design & Fabrication assistant, (14 months) PIERRIC VERGER DESIGN, London, UK.
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2010 - 2021 : Freelance Designer London, UK ; Paris, France.
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2009 - 2010 : Design Consultant, (6 months) at MARIO HERNANDEZ MAROQUINERA, Bogota, Colombia.
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2007 : Photography internship, (3 months) GEORGES ROUSSE. Paris, France.
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2006 : Architecture internship, (6 months) AGENCE MASKARADE. Montreuil, France.
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Work Concept
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Pierre Ospina is a passionate spirit bound to create objects for people to live and evolve with. He looks at his designer's practice as a contemporary medium of creation, applicable to many innovative fields of the 21st century. Bouncing between poles, Art and Design, Craft and Industry, Creativity and Technique, Pierre Ospina's work explores relationships ; amongst humans and objects, materials and tools, and behaviours in environments.
Small Bio
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Pierre Ospina was born in 1985 from French and Colombian parents. He went from drawing on school tables to street art and then chose artists as tutors to overlook his studies in Design Products. He was particularly influenced by Phillippe Mayaux and Konrad Loder at ESAD (Reims, France DNAP 2008) and by Gabriel Klasmer at the Royal College of Art for his MA in 2010 (London, United Kingdom). After 5 years in his East London studio, Pierre Ospina is now based in Paris.
Influences
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"We shape our tools, and our tools shape us." Marshall Mac Luhan
" Le sujet c’est pas l’objet, c’est l’homme." Charlotte Perriand.
Marcel Duchamp, Joseph Beuys, Nils Udo, Jean Prouvé, Jean Baudrillard, Buckminster Fuller, James Turrell to name a few.
And matter as materials to play with and learn from !
Selected Clients
Exhibitions and conferences
Aerial Coboticus
Ben Jordan Design
British european design group
Distant Relatives
Gauthier SOHO
Identicar
Joyeuse SA
Manufacture de Sèvres
Mario Hernandez SA
Mondo Collection
Parfums Christion Dior
Pièces-Jointes SA
Rana Begum
Spoon SA
StationF
TechShop
The Southbank Centre
TH Manufacture
Waldraud
100%Design
September 2015, London Design Festival, UK
Fundraising event in collaboration with Article25
www.100percentdesign.co.uk, www.article-25.org
Paris Design Week now! le Off
September 2015, Paris, France
Emerging Talents show
www.maison-objet.com
China Design Week
November 2014, China
Lectures Tour
www.chinaexhibition.com
Maison & Objet
January 2014, Paris, France
www.maison-objet.com
China Design Week
October 2013, China
Lectures Tour, Beijing, Hainan, Fuhzou
www.chinaexhibition.com
Maison & Objet
January 2013, Paris, France
www.maison-objet.com
IMM Cologne
January 2013, Koln, Germany
www.imm-cologne.com
Dwell On Design
June 2012, LA, USA
www.dwell.com
BOFFO Show House
June 2012, NYC, USA
www.boffo-ny.org
International Contemporary Furniture Fair
May 2012, NYC, USA
www.icff.com, www.bedg.org
TENT LONDON
September 2011, London, UK
www.tentlondon.co.uk
International Contemporary Furniture Fair
May 2011, NYC, USA
www.icff.com, www.bedg.org
Salone del Mobile - RCA Intent
April 2011, Milano, Italia
www.rcaintent.com, www.cosmit.it
Islington Art and Design Fair
October 2010, London, UK
www.candidarts.com
Pavilion of Art and Design
October 2010, London, UK
www.pad-london.com
Inonectima, Poetic Design Cafe
September 2010, London, UK
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Tendences
August 2010, Messe Frankfurt Exhibition, Germany
www.bedg.org, www.messefrankfurt.com
ByOtherDesigners at The Hackney Wicked festival
July - August 2010, The Peanut Factory, London, UK
www.byotherdesigners.com
RCA Platform 8 Design Products Graduation Show
June 2010 , London, UK
www.rca.ac.uk
alone del Mobile, Hotel RCA
April 2010, Milano, Italy
www.hotelrca.com
'Attention Span' Evening Performance with Platform 8
March 2010, Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin, Germany.
www.designproductsrca.com
Designer's Days
June 2009, Galerie de la Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres, Paris