Sébastien Maleville
Product Design, France
 
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Contact details
150 rue de Belleville
75020 Paris
Tel: 0663814687
Brief Summary
Young French product designer actually based in Paris, seeking a position in PARIS area or WORLDWIDE (Asia), to become part of a creative team. Really motivated to grow up with a studio, imaginative, I want to do with you design that makes sense! I Speak French, English, Spanish a bit, and I Learn Thaï for 2 years. Feel free to contact me !


STUDIES
- 2004 : Diploma, Certificate of specialisation in Product Design. 2 projects :

- Bubbl' beat : a cushion with speakers with a water bed on it, allows a Dj to rest, but also stay in contact with his music, the vibrations of the water bring sound to ears through bones & stomach.

- Arigato : A top-class desert, inspired by the new way of eating with asian style, like a game. The desert i like a game, you have 16 pieces and 4 japanese tastes in them (lotus, ginger, cherry lychee) to share with friends & to eat with sticks.

- Anthem : Snowboard mask inspired by insects shapes, especially ants, with a stretch part all around the head it fits well to any head, the attach part have magnets to help closing. In the front there are 3 aerations parts, two on both part of the nose.


- 2003/2004 : 3rd year of product design - Creapole ESDI school of creation & management, Paris.
(creation workshops, sketches, scale models, technology, 3d modeling).

Professionnal project : Motocross boots (range of 4 models)
Creation of a range of 4 models of motocross boots, keep the colors of the brand, but improve using points.

Design competitions :
- “Froid devant!” (Create a new refrigerant furniture for supermarkets, reconsider the atmosphere, create an ambience for the consumer to be more attracted to buy products).

- “Urban Art” (Create installations for advertisments boards in the street, project that uses actual architecture like train bridges, to concentrate all the advertisments of the place, under them, also give the possibility to walk around the place with a way you can see on the floor, when you walk there are sensors that display an ad, the rest of the time, big ads are for cars).
(Competition in association with Therdsiddhi Hoprasartsuk).


- 2002/2003 : 2nd year of product design - Creapole ESDI

Design competitions :
- “Comité Colbert” (Create a smart brief-case for S.T. Dupont).

- “Lighting design award” : Wavy is a swivelling wall lamp, that allows 2 positions of lightening, one give a ambient light on roof and the rest of a room, the other position allow to have a workspace under the light.

- 2001/2002 : Evening classes - Creapole ESDI
(Drawing techniques, sketches, graphic design, transportation design).

Transportation design project : A new supercar for the Dodge brand.

- 2000/2001 : 1st year of product design - Strate College
(Color, graphic design, sculpture, scale models, creation workshops).

- 2000 : General Certificate of Education (advanced level), Commercial action & communication

JOBS

- June to Now : Lighting design for a franco-chinese company. Design desk lamp, floor lamp, wall lamp, etc... graphic, modern, simple & low cost (Helios & Tao Co. Ltd)
- June to November 2004 : Creation of a cat tree with a modern design (for ModernFelineDesign).
- January/February 2004 : Training period at “CODE CONCEPTION DESIGN” Furniture Designer.
(Projects : door handles, seats, sofas, meeting seats, desk accessories, legs, meeting tables).
Techniques : sketches, plans, research, modeling & rendering

Projects :
- Door handles, only 2 pieces can make lot of different positions, to give a dynamic personnality to handles, and to allow offices users to choose the best position for them.

- Ticky : Based on the tick form, the cd holder for home is made of steel and polypropylene (green), the "V" form created by the sheet of PP in the steel square give personnality to an interior.

- Meeting tables : With only 3 pieces (square, rectangular, and circle), you can combine them to make meeting tables that suit for the number of persons you need to install, it can also be used for personnal workspace with space for computer screens).

- Triplay : Inspired by the thaï cushion, a triangular shaped cushion with three parts that can be scratched around the main part. Triplay can be brought in park, to sit on it, to rest on it. It allows storing place in the main part with zip, when the three parts are scratched, you can easily transport the all thing.

- Summer 2001/2002/2003 : Job at the inscription service of University “Paris 7”.

- January 2002 to June 2002 : Cashier, Castorama (tools supermarket).

- August 2000 : Commercial job in a supermarket (Champion).

SOFTS
Graphism : Illustrator, Photoshop
Plan : Ashlar Vellum, Powerdraw
3D modeling & rendering : CINEMA 4D, Amapi, Alias studio tools, Solidworks (a smattering of), Rhinoceros

LANGUAGES
French, English (TOEIC score : 905), Spanish (academic), Thaï (advanced level).

Trips to USA, England, Spain, Tunisia.
Voluntary at the orphanage of Tunis.
First Aid diploma.
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