About me

Antonio is a London-based product designer with a double masters from the Royal College of Art and Imperial College London. As a Design London Fellow he was awarded the Imperial College Business School's Best Business Plan award and has since been working as a freelance designer, consultant and private tutor.

A background in Mechatronics (Beng from King's College London) led him to the automotive industry where, as a design engineer for the Centre for Excellence and Innovation in the Automotive Industry (Maia, Portugal) he helped developed the first ever Portuguese sports car and formed the portfolio that brought him to London.

The Royal College of Art both broadened his vision and focused his aims towards experimental processes in design and research. His work revolves around experience design, and results from a fascination with the boundaries between form, perception and interaction.

Skills

Experience design; Design thinking; User-experience; Workshop facilitation; Brainstorm facilitation; Arduino; Processing; Solidworks; CATIA V5; Rhino 3D; Blender 2.5; Electronics; Wood, metal and resin workshop; Adobe Creative Suite; Mechanical engineering.

Sector Experience

Design Engineering, Kranium Design: design, engineering, CAD and assembly of innovative bycicle helmets., Centre for Excellence and Inovation in the Automotive Industry: design, engineering, CAD and assembly of funnctional automotive prototypes., User Experience Design, Electronic Ink: wireframing for the web, branding., Design Research, slowLab: research and development of brief for artistic residency., Packaging Design, Unilever: A series of brainstorming sessions around key products in development., Web-design, Arquigest Lda: Web-design and implementation of firm's website., Artwork, The Big Egg Hunt: Conception and build of interactive installation for london exhibition and event., Education, TWSU: workshop facilitation

Awards

Winner of Imperial College Business School's £10,000 prize for Business Plan of the Year 2011, Design London Fellowship, Inovation Design Engineering MA - Royal College of Art, London, Inovation Design Engineering MSc - Imperial College London, Mechatronics Beng - King's College London, Internationa Baccalaureate (IB) - St. Julian's School, Lisbon

Clients

Action for Children, Arquigest Lda, Electronic Ink, Eternum Energy, Ford Motor Company, Kranium Design, Open_Sailing, Physical Pixels, Popup Pixels, slowLab, Technology Will Save Us, The Elephant Family, Unilever