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EMILIANO GODOY (Mexico, 1974)
With experience in furniture, products, architecture, urban furnishings, art and exhibits design; Emiliano Godoy works primarily in projects about applied sustainability. He has worked for companies such as Saint Gobain, EHV Weidmann, Pepsico, Holland Chemical International (HCI), Pipeline Integrity International (PII), Pipetronix, Frito Lay/Sabritas, and the Museo de la Ciudad de México.
Industrial designer from Pratt Institute's graduate program (New York , 2004), he also holds a BA degree in industrial design from Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico City, 1997). He has received several awards and scholarships, such as a Fulbright scholarship for graduate studies (New York-Mexico City, 2002), a Bronze Leaf at the International Furniture Design Award (Asahikawa, Japan, 2005), a Conduit Award (New York, 2005) and an honorable mention at Mexico's First Design Biennial (Mexico City, 2001), as well as many academic achievement awards. His work has been featured at many fairs and shows such as the ICFF (New York, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006), International Furniture Design Award (Asahikawa, 2005), Ambiente (Frankfurt, 2003), hOLAnDA '03 and '05 (Amsterdam, 2003 and 2005), Galeria de Arte Mexicano (Mexico City, 2005) and Galería OMR (Mexico City, 2003).
Godoy teaches sustainable design at UNAM's Center for Industrial Design Research and at ITESM (Instituto Teconológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey), both undegraduate industrial design programs in Mexico City. His work has appeared in international design publications such as ID Magazine, Dwell, Wallpaper, Arquine, Elle and Designer Magazine, and in books such as Diseño: México (RM ediciones, 2005), Young Designers Americas (Daab, 2006) and Experimental Eco Design (Rotovision, 2005).
He also co-created matatena.com, a contemporary art website and was part of the development team of Puerto 82, a design research center active from 1997 until 2000.
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Studies and degrees
MID with distinction, Graduate Program in Industrial Design at the Pratt Institute, New York, USA (2002 - 2004)
Furniture design program, Danish Design School, organized by DIS (Denmark’s International Study program), Copenhagen, Denmark (2003)
BA degree in Industrial Design, Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA), Mexico City, Mexico (1992 - 1997)
Awards, prizes and scholarships
2005 — Conduit Award for the design A place to hang your hat , Conduit 2005: Between Landscape and Marketplace (Conduit National Design Competition), Nueva York, USA
2005 — Bronze Leaf at the International Furniture Design Award, Asahikawa 2005, for the Knit Chair
2002 – 2004 — Scholarship for graduate studies, Fulbright – García Robles, Comisión para el Intercambio Cultural México Estados Unidos, Mexico City, Mexico
2002 – 2004 — Scholarship for graduate studies, CONACYT, Mexico City, Mexico
2004 — Graduation with distinction, Masters in Industrial Design, Pratt Institute, USA
2004 — Certificate of Excellence Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement, Pratt Institute, MA in Industrial Design, New York, USA
2004 — Certificate of Excellence Award for Outstanding Service in Graduate Industrial Design, Pratt Institute, MA in Industrial Design, New York, USA
2004 — Certificate of Excellence Award for Outstanding Merit in Graduate Industrial Design, Pratt Institute, MA in Industrial Design, New York, USA
2003 — Scholarship, summer program in Scandinavian Furniture Design, DIS (Denmark International Study program), Copenhagen, Denmark
2002 — Honorable Mention, thesis, undergraduate degree in Industrial Design, Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA), Mexico City, Mexico
2001 — Honorable Mention for the design SAD, Primer Bienal de Diseño del INBA (First Design Biennial) Mexico City, Mexico
2001 — Scholarship for cultural projects, Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (FONCA), project matatena.com, Mexico City, Mexico. Project done in collaboration with Jimena Acosta and Tania Ragasol
2000 — Equipment donation for the project matatena.com, Fundación Cultural Telmex, Mexico City, Mexico. Project done in collaboration with Jimena Acosta and Tania Ragasol
1998 — Second place, Electraton Electric Vehicle Design Contest, Fórmula Sol and the Facultad de Ingeniería Mecánica, UNAM. Project done with Luis Mercado. Mexico City, Mexico
1997 — Award for the highest GPA, Undegraduate Industrial Design Program, Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA), Mexico City, Mexico
Teaching, writings and lectures
2006 — Diseño y Sustentabilidad , guest speaker at the Facultad del Hábitat , San Luis Potosí, Mexico
2006 — Diseño Sustentable: rescatando la tradición y el ambiente, round table discussion, Museo Franz Mayer, Mexico City, Mexico
2005 — 100BIO Products , workshop, part of the Designing for Kyoto series of workshops and lectures, Antwerp Design Seminars and Lectures (ADSL '06), Antwerp, Belguim
2005 — Biological Future: An Argument for the Use and Development of Biodegradable Materials for Design, at Sustainable Innovation 5, Farnham, UK
2005 — Lecture Diseño y Sustentabilidad at ¿Quién Sabe? ‘05, conference on Industrial Design, Queretaro, Mexico
2005 — Guest speaker at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) with the lecture Biological Future, Queretaro, Mexico
2004 — 2005 — Drawing teacher for the undergraduate program in Industrial Design, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), Mexico City, Mexico
2004 — 2005 — Sustainable design teacher for the undergraduate program in Industrial Design, Industrial Design Research Center (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico
2004 — Industrial design studio teacher for the undergraduate program in Industrial Design, Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA), Mexico City, Mexico
2004 — Guest speaker at the "Habitat, Mobiliario y Objeto" program at CENTRO, Mexico City, Mexico
2004 — Guest speaker at the Industrial Design Research Center, (UNAM), with the lecture Biological Future, Mexico City, Mexico
2004 — Guest speaker at the Design Week with the lecture Biological Future, Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA), Mexico City, Mexico
2004 — Guest lecture in the summer Product Design Studio, Parson’s School of Design, New School University, New York, USA
2004 — Graphic materials and content, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) lecture, Design: Green workshop, organized by J. Ottman Consulting and the IDSA. New York, US
2003 — Teacher’s Assistantship, Sustainable Design Studio, undergraduate program in Industrial Design, Pratt Institute, New York, USA
2003 — Teacher’s Assistantship, drawing class, graduate program in Industrial Design, Pratt Institute. New York, USA
2002 — Diseño de Circulaciones, text on exhibit design published in matatena.com
Exhibitions
2006 — NEL, booth at the Salone Satelite at the Milan furniture fair, exhibiting an experimental project in collaboration with the NEL collective, Milan , Italy
2006 — Import / Export, de Cambios e Intercambios, group show organized by the British council and the Franz Mayer Museum, Mexico City, Mexico
2005 — Un papel para todos, group show organizad by Original Múltiple, Mexico City, México
2005 — Matrimonios Caprichosos, group show at the gallery Ludens, featuring the piece A última hora, Mexico City, Mexico
2005 — HOLANDA 2005, show organized by the Latin American Design Foundation, featuring the piece Z1 . Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2005 — Se vende diseño, group show at the Galería Mexicana de Diseño celebrating their 15th anniversary, featuring the piece PIASA , Mexico City , Mexico
2005 — Materia Prima, group show curated by Emiliano Godoy for the gallery Ludens, and featuring the pieces Cesaria Evora y Estudio , Mexico City, Mexico
2005 — ICFF (International Contemporary Furniture Fair), exhibiting designs for EHV Weidmann Industries developed with Erika Hanson, New York, USA
2005 — International Furniture Design Award, Asahikawa Furniture Center, Asahikawa, Japan
2005 — Diseño Muerto, show at the Galería de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City, Mexico
2004 — Brooklyn Designs show at St Ann’s Warehouse and the Brooklyn Designs’ Gallery, exhibiting the designs Precisely and The incredible Heptagons, with the Pratt Institute, New York, USA
2004 — ICFF (International Contemporary Furniture Fair), with the Pratt Institute. LifeCycles exhibiting the Knit Chair, and Alumni Choices exhibiting the project Sweet Disposable, New York, USA
2004 — Indispensable Trashcan exhibit, with the design Beem, Galapagos, New York, USA
2004 — The Importance of Being Earnest, show on sustainable design at Sustainable Living, exhibiting sugar pieces, part of the project Sweet Disposable, New York, USA
2004 — Living Spaces show at Volume, exhibiting the designs Norrebro and Precisely, New York, USA
2004 — The Pratt Show featuring work from the Master’s thesis project, Sweet Disposable. The Manhattan Center, New York, USA
2004 — Designers Market, with the Latin American Design Foundation, exhibiting the Hip Lamp, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
2004 — Master’s Thesis Exhibition and Presentations, department of industrial design, Pratt Institute, New York, USA
2003 — Exhibition hOLAnDA 2003, organized by the Latin American Design Foundation, featuring the Hip Lamp. Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2003 — Danish Design School, with work from the DIS Architecture and Design programs, exhibiting the project Norrebro, Copenhaguen, Denmark
2003 — Brooklyn Designs show at St Ann’s Warehouse in DUMBO, exhibiting The Sponge, with the Pratt Institute, New York, USA
2003 — ICFF (International Contemporary Furniture Fair), exhibiting The Sponge, with the Pratt Institute, New York, USA
2003 — Design show organized by the magazine Celeste and the Galería OMR, exhibiting the Hip Lamp, Mexico City, Mexico
2003 — Ambiente 2003, as part of the Mexico X Design booth with the project Hip Lamp, Frankfurt, Germany
2001 — Primer Bienal de Diseño, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (INBA) exhibiting SAD, winner of an Honorable Mention. Mexico City, Mexico
1999 — Exhibition of photographs from the project Los Impermeables, done with Napoleón Habeica, Jimena Acosta, Tania Ragasol and Luis Mercado. Babel, Mexico City, Mexico
1995 — Participant on the art exhibition Artefactos del Futuro at the Universidad de las Américas. Design of the exhibition’s brochure in collaboration with Maia Fernández and Rodolfo Samperio. Mexico City, Mexico
Press
2006 — ELLE magazine, mention about the Z bench in their first ever “Green issue”, New York , USA
2006 — Young Designers Americas, a book with work from 50 young design firms in the continent, DAAB, New York , USA
2005 — Experimental Eco Design, book by Cara Brower, Rachel Mallory and Zachary Ohlman, published by ROTOVISION, with texts by Ezio Manzini y Edwin Datschefski, and work by Shigeru Ban, Tom Dixon, Emiliano Godoy, etc. London , UK
2005 — Earth-Friendly Furniture, article by Virginia Gardiner about furniture designers who work in sustainability, DWELL magazine, December 2005 issue, page 160, San Francisco, USA
2005 — Modular Bookshelf, featuring the project with Weidmann, DWELL magazine, December 2005 issue, page 54, San Francisco , USA
2005 — Dulce y desechable, 8 page interview, Arquine magazine, issue #33, fall 2005, Mexico City , Mexico
2005 — Silla inteligente, 3 page article about the Broze Leaf won at IFDA '05, Casa Viva Decoración magazine, issue #20, 4th year, Mexico City, Mexico
2005 — Knit Chair, article in Muebles y Decoración magazine, issue #96, Mexico City, Mexico
2005 — Diseño ducle, cool y desechable, small article about the Sweet Disposable project, Chilango magazine, November 2005 issue, Mexico City , Mexico
2005 — Silla ganadora, feature about the Broze Leaf won at IFDA '05, Código 06140 magazine, October/November 2005 issue, Mexico City, Mexico
2005 — Mobiliario tejido, feature about the Broze Leaf won at IFDA '05, Escala magazine, November 2005 issue, Mexico City, Mexico
2005 — Designing for death, 5 page article about Emiliano Godoy, Designer magazine, issue #9, Singapore
2005 — Un mexicano conquista Japón, feature about the Broze Leaf won at IFDA '05, Elle Decoración magazine, Septiembre 2005 issue, Mexico City, Mexico
2005 — Una silla del mexicano Emiliano Godoy gana en Japón, article about the Broze Leaf won at IFDA '05, Proceso weekly magazine, September 11, Mexico City, Mexico
2005 — Materia Prima, feature about the show with the same name at Ludens, Celeste magazine, fall 2005 issue, Mexico City , Mexico
2005 — Maplex, article about the project with Weidmann Industries, Celeste magazine, fall 2005 issue, Mexico City, Mexico
2005 — ICFF, WALLPAPER magazine features the Weidmann chair, show at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair '05. London, UK
2005 — International Contemporary Furniture Fair, CONTRACT magazine, features the Weidmann chair, July 2005 issue, New York, USA
2005 — Reciclan para construir arte, article in the newspaper unomásuno about the show Materia Prima , curated by Emiliano Godoy for the gallery Ludens , July 26, Mexico City, Mexico
2005 — IFDA Asahikawa 2005, catalogue about the competition, International Furniture Design Competition '05, Asahikawa, Japan
2005 — hOLAnDA 2003, catalogue about the exhibition of the same name, Publisher by the Latin American Design Foundation, Amsterdam , The Netherlands
2005 — Difuminan la barrera entre arte y diseño, article in the newspaper unomasuno related to the exhibit Diseño Muerto at the Galería de Arte Mexicano. January 25th, 2005, Mexico City, Mexico
2004 — DWELL, In the modern world features the project Sweet Disposable, issue December 2004, Page 52. San Francisco, US
2004 — Tree Hugger, postings about the Knit Chair and the Sweet Disposable project. URL: www.treehugger.com/mt/mt-tb.cgi/398 and www.treehugger.com/mt/mt-tb.cgi/376
2004 — We Make Money Not Art, posting about the Sweet Disposable project, URL: www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/003833.php
2004 —design*sponge, posting, URL: http://designsponge.blogspot.com/2004/11/south-of-border.html
2004 — ID Magazine, ICFF ’04, A view to this year’s fair features the project Sweet Disposable, issue May 2004, Page 76. New York, US
2003 — Metropolis Magazine online, article on the work by Pratt Institute students at the ICFF 2003. New York, US (http://www.metropolismag.com/html/conferences/icff_2003/live/prattstudents_05192003.html)
2002 — ¡En Tendencia!, special section ENTREMUROS from the newspaper REFORMA, March 2002. Mexico City, Mexico. Page 13
2001 — Catalogue from the Primera Bienal Nacional de Diseño, Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (CONACULTA), Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (INBA), Centro Nacional de las Artes (CNA), Escuela de Diseño. Mexico City, Mexico. Page 27
2001 — Un Lugar para Colgar el Sombrero, VICEVERSA, Gatuperio Editores SA de CV, Mexico City, Mexico. Page 80
2001 — 70m2, PODIO Number 24. Mexico City, Mexico. Page 44
1995 — Artefactos del Futuro, CURARE Number 6, Mexico City, Mexico. Page. 11
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