I am Alvaro
A full stack allaround designer worried about future.
About
little story
From Lucena, a little town from Cordoba and based now in Malaga. I’m 25 years old. Everybody calls me Alvarin because I still conserve my child spirit.
I was very little when I started to use computers… I didn’t know how to write but in the Paint App of my father computer I saved files with my name! Then I started to destroy things… TV, family computers, PS1, Gameboy… and then I learned how to fix!
Due to economical difficulties I started to earn some money fixing things in my circles.
I decided to study Product Design Engineering and Mechanical Engineering because was the most unknown fields for me with the idea of take a work in a big company. After two years I took the Erasmus and I change my mind & my mindset moved to a more collective, open & conscious way. After that I started to move my own project. In the path I had the luck of meet with amazing people, learn from different perspectives and even the opportunity of transmit my knowledge to friends, students and entrepreneurs.
Education
Official background doesn’t mean all.
2013 – 2020
Universidad de Málaga
Product Design & Product Development Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
www.uma.es
Skills
More of them was acquired by self-learning. I love to mix different disciplines and go further the surface in the topics I like more.
Awards
While I was learning by my self new stuff I proposed my work in many contests.
CONTEST
DESCRIPTION
YEAR
Ideas Factory / Malaga
Best Business Model ideation
2017
Impaciencia.org / Malaga
Best Technical Dimension. Research.
2018
Spin-off / UMA
IMFE Prize. Business Idea development.
2018
Red Bull Basement
Selected for acceleration.
2018
Explorer
Best local business model.
2018
Eyeka
Prize for useful product idea for Gillette.
2020
Vision Direct
Top 10 product design idea featured.
2020
Diseño Industrial Andaluz
Best Product design. Ganto
2019
James Dyson Award
National runner-up
2020
esPACIA
Selected for acceleration.
2020
Junior Achievement
Selected for acceleration & funding.
2021
Experience
POSITION / DESCRIPTION
YEAR
Freelancer / Everywhere
Projects / Web / Graphic / 3D designer / Server management / Prototyping / Photography
2018-2021
UMA / Malaga
Two talks about Design Methodologies and Innovation
2019
EINA/ Barcelona
Talk about Being Designer and Entrepreneur
2020
Research
TITLE
YEAR
Futures Methodologies and Product Design (WIP)
2019
Design of Sustainable and Open Source plastic cleaner system for plastic processing.
2021
Earth needs Design
Design is a powerful tool that shapes our world and we’re not using correctly.
We’re here for one reason. Mines is to help Earth & Society to survive in someway or at least support those who do.
Creating and managing problems now a day needs to have a proper vision.