me

Studying in Cologne and San Francisco and working in Berlin, Barcelona, Palo Alto and Basel made me what I would describe a design nomade and socio-cultural ethnologist. In the last 10 years I lived together with people from more than 25 nations and had colleagues of even more countries – that sharpened my view for cultural differences. The term "normality" therefore became excluded of my word pool.


I became aware how relative the meaning has to be seen and how much "normality" depends on the position from where you look. Beside reflecting that fact in thoughts, acts and chats I let it also become my source of inspiration for my design-research and concept development.
I turned it from a hobby into a 24/7 passion and spice up my presentations with intercultural insights and strengthen my concept development through the remarkable findings as well as the resulting products.

 

contact

Michael Heimrich // Basel // Switzerland // hello@michaelheimrich.de

age 33 // mobile D +49.178.8800927 // mobile CH +41.77.4444.812

 

CV

2007 – today // Development Director // break/through // Basel
2000 – 2007 // Studium Dipl. Design // Köln International School of Design
1998 – 2000 // Industrial Mechanic // Ford Motor Comp. Köln
1997 – 1998 // Civilian Service // Eduardus-Hospital Köln
1984 – 1997 // Matriculation Standard // Wigbertschule Hünfeld

Internships
2006
IDEO // Palo Alto // Industrial Design
2005 Delafair // Berlin // Corporate Archictecture
2003 MediactiVa // Barcelona // Webdesign
2001 Jünger & Michel // Berlin // Grafikdesign
2000 EDAG–Engineering // Fulda // modelmaker for cars

Skills
Grafikdesign // Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign
Rendering & 3D // Cinema 4D, Solid Works
www & CD-Rom // Dreamweaver, Flash, HTML, PHP

Languages
German native // English fluently // Spanish conversation // Italian basics

Freelance
Eyeland // People Interactive // simple environmedia



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