I'm running on two parallel lines departing from the same point. During daytime I'm a co-manager at Flamingo_Making Products Happen a design and development firm while during the night I'm feeding my sketchbook with ideas and drawings of irrational, smilefull, future objects.
General
- Co-manger at Flamingo_Making Products Happen, design and develop agency, based in Tel Aviv (Israel) and Munich (Germany). The company focus on products ranging from medical devices to consumer electronic.
- Design Team Leader, developing conductive-textile based pressure sensor for monitoring and treatment of bedsores (pressure ulcer). Establishment of product and system from core idea into full production lines in Singapore and China, including embedding the system in the US, 2009-2013.
- Graduate with honour, The Industrial Design Department at Bezelel, Academy of Art and Design (B.Des ) 2008.
Awards and Grants:
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem - Sandberg Research and Development Grant - “Biological-Digital Platform”,2014.
Polanski Award - Outstanding thesis Project Design “My Toys of Illness” 2009.
Carmel Award - New approach on “Tactile City” 2007.
Design Teaching:
Industrial Design, Pre Academic program at Bezalel academy of Art and Design 2012-2015.
Interaction Design Hands On (IDHO), Holon Institute of Technology along with Michal Rinot. 2010.
Algorithms as Interactive Design Tool, along with Dr. Michael Fink at Bezalel. 2009.
Writing:
Original Replicas, Alaxon magazine, 2015.
Untitled Magazine – Publishing several columns, 2010-2011.
Computer Oriented Design, Bezalel Protocols, issue #9 July 2009.
Patents
Device for Seeding and Culturing Microbiological Organisms for Learning, patent pending, co-inventor. (WO 2010/004569 A2).
System and Method for Rapid Data Collection from Pressure Sensors In a Pressure Sensing System, , co-inventor, patent pending. (IB2011051016).
Catheter Add-On and Methods of Producing and Using Same, , co-inventor, PCT stage. (IB2014065713).
Exhibitions
“Awards” - The Vitrina Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel. 2015.
“Decoded” - Holon Design Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel. 2012.
”Priscopective” - Artist House, Tel Aviv, Israel. 2012.
“Conductive Textile Research” - TechTextile, Frankfurt, Germany. 2011.
“Toy Retrospective Exhibition” - Tel Aviv, Israel. 2011.
“Bonanza” - Milan Design Week, Milan, Italy. 2010.
“The Technological Experience Show” - The Port Gallery, Tel Aviv 2011.
Press (Main, Digital & Print)
MindCet - “Kids, Want to play with Germs?” 2015.
Room 404 - “Germo”, Interview. 2015.
Mako- “Germo”, Review. 2015.
GeekTime- “Germo”, Review. 2015.
The Huffington Post – Fonhandle, Video Review. 2014
DesignBoom – Fonhandle Review. 2014.
Reddit - Fonhandle, Review (3p. discussion) 2014.
Daily Mail, LoughingSquid, ReDesign, Technabob, Odditymall, Crunchbase, Ohgizmo and other +45 sites worldwide – Reviews, 2014.
Ha’aretz – Toys of Illness, 2009.
Co - Manager at:
https://www.flamingo.works
e-mail:
yonatan.assouline@gmail.com