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EMILIANO GODOY (Mexico, 1974)

Industrial designer from Pratt Institute?s graduate program (New York, 2004), he also holds a BA degree in industrial design from Universidad Iberoamericana?s (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 around the world, such as the ICFF (New York, 2003, 2004 and 2005), International Furniture Design Award (Asahikawa, 2005), Ambiente (Frankfurt, 2003), hOLAnDA ?03 (Amsterdam, 2003), Galeria de Arte Mexicano (Mexico City, 2005) and Galería OMR (Mexico City, 2003). He teaches sustainable design at UNAM?s Center for Industrial Design Research, as well as design and drawing classes at ITESM, both undegraduate industrial design programs in Mexico City. His work has appeared in international design publications such as ID Magazine, Dwell and Designer Magazine.

With experience in furniture, products, architecture, urban furnishings, art and exhibits design; Emiliano Godoy works primarily in projects about applied sustainability.

 

Professional work

Emiliano Godoy has worked for clients such as Saint Gobain, EHV Weidmann, Pepsico, Metrobus, Holland Chemical International (HCI), Pipeline Intergity International (PII), Pipetronix, Gamesa, Frito Lay, WESCO Distribution, the Museo de la Ciudad de México, Peñafiel and Allegro

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 project A place to hang your hat, Conduit 2005: Between Landscape and Marketplace (Conduit National Design Competition)

2005 ? Bronze Leaf for the Knit Chair at the International Furniture Design Competition, Asahikawa, Japan

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

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

2005 ? Materia Prima, collective show curated by Emiliano Godoy, Ludens Gallery, 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

2005 ? International Contemporary Furniture Fair, CONTRACT magazine, mention about 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 Ludens gallery, July 26th, Mexico City, Mexico

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

 

© Emiliano Godoy, 2005