guillaume drapier
postgraduate student at the royal college of art (MA) and imperial college london (MSc), looking for partners to start a business around crowdsourcing and open innovation platform
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Work status: | Full-Time Student |
| Industries: | Computing, Education, Entertainment, Gaming, Health, Internet, Lifestyle, Media, Mobile |
| Skills: | Business, Design, Engineering, English, French, German, Languages, Management |
| Next step: | Post graduation : lunching start up / consultancy in open innovation and crowdsourcing / now discussing with first clients |
| Groups: | Club Entrepreneur, DrinkTank London, Imperial Entrepreneurs |
| Visas: | everywhere in europe |
| Interested in: | Advising startups, Brainstorming, Consulting opportunities, Employment opportunities, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding engineers, Finding experts, Finding hot stories, Finding mentors, Finding team mates, Giving back, Helping friends, Joining a startup, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Offering Expertise, Participating in a competition, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Providing services to startups, Receiving feedback, Recruiting, Recruiting for my startup, Sharing my projects, Starting a company, Trading services |
| Schools: | Imperial College London, Royal College of Art |
FULL BIO
I was born in Lille, France, in 1983: a small-ish town right in the middle of a triangle created by Paris, Amsterdam and London. Capital of the French Flanders, home of the mining and textile industry during the industrial revolution and of Belgian beer since the man is man, it was a nice place, yet wet and grey, to hang around until my A level.
Following a Foundation year in Paris (2001) I moved to Strasbourg for a BA and MA in Product Design (2002-2007) and eventually reached the rainy shores of England to do a MA at the Royal College of Art (RCA) within the department of Innovation Design Engineering (IDE) as well as a MSc in Mechanical Engineering at the Imperial College (IC) in the vibrant city, yet rainy and gray again, of London (2007-2009).
Finally I enrolled in the weekend MBA program from the Imperial College Business School as a Design London Fellow (2008) to improve my understanding of business and entrepreneurship and somehow try to close the loop in term of education about what I feel is important in the field of creative industry.
In the meanwhile, I worked, teached and collaborated to projects in places such as Tokyo, Amsterdam, London and Rotterdam. As a product designer and design strategist my activity mainly took place in the field of luxury goods (Artemide, LVMH, Lotus Car, United Arrow) and technology driven sectors (3mobile, Alcatel, QinetiQ).
please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any queries. :-)
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Hutchinson Whampoa, Wham brands / London, United Kingdom |
| Position: | Design strategist |
| Time period: | January 2008 - December 2008 |
| Description: | • Lotus car: Design strategy and offer strategy for the merchandise as well as the industrial design and development of the actual products (http://www.grouplotus.com/)
• 3 mobile UK: Research project in collaboration with the marketing and R&D departments of 3 mobile UK for the development of innovative mobile devices. (http://www.three.co.uk/) |
| Employer: | Design Office / Lyon, France |
| Position: | Design strategist & industrial designer |
| Time period: | January 2006 - December 2007 |
| Description: | • LVMH: Design strategy; offer strategy, concept generation and industrial design for the launch of Omas’ limited series and the new 360 pen (http://www.omas.net/)
• Artemide Architectural: Offer restructuration, design strategy and offer strategy for the launch of the brand (http://www.artemide.com/) • Air liquide santé: Concept generation with a user centered design approach as well as industrial design and development of a liquefactor in collaboration with the in-house engineering team. (http://www.airliquidesante.fr/) • Coleman Europe / Camping gaz: Design and development of a blowtorch and a range of sleeping bags (http://www.coleman-eur.com/) |
| Employer: | Brunklaus Amsterdam/ Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| Position: | Industrial designer |
| Time period: | January 2006 - December 2006 |
| Description: | • In-house: Industrial design, product development, prototyping, exhibition scenography, graphic/web design (7 months internship, http://www.brunklaus.nl/) |
| Employer: | Darnet Design / Nantes, France |
| Position: | Naval interior architect |
| Time period: | January 2005 - December 2005 |
| Description: | • In-house: Concept generation & sketching, rendering, technical drawing, graphic/web design (5 months internship, http://www.franck-darnet-design.com/) |
EDUCATION
| University: | Imperial College London |
| Degree: | Mechanical Engineering , MSc |
| University: | Royal College of Art |
| Degree: | Innovation Design Engineering , MA |
INFORMATION
| Hobbies: | Philosophy, psychology and politics: Zizek/Benjamin/Chomsky/Sloterdijk/Foucault/
Cinema: Kurozawa/Tarkovsky/Kubrick/Lynch/Cohen/ Music: Classical & Alternative scenes/playing bass guitar & drums/touring & recording/ Games: Chess /Strategy games/Analytical & problem solving games / |
| Awards: | 1st prize, Valpack Award 2008 / 1st prize,Odyssée de la Création d’Entreprise 2007 / Short listed Red dot: the skin of Corian 2006/ 1st Prize for innovation, Gaz de France design contest 2006
IDE interim show, RCA, London 2008 / Spring feast, with W. Somers & C.Kabel, Strasbourg 2007 / Fused space, Enschede, the Netherlands 2007 / Objets du design, La chaufferie, Strasbourg 2007 / Jeunes Flammes, MK2 François Mitterrand, Paris 2006 |
