CV Michele Tenca

CV Michele Tenca born on 21th november 1984 in Bozzolo [MN] lives in Commessaggio [MN] 46010 via indipendenza 13 micheletenca@yahoo.it mobile: 0039 348 24 14 224 skype: “michele tenca” (acnet84)

EDUCATION & VOCATIONAL TRAINING September 1998 - July 2003 “E. Fermi” technical industrial college (Mantova) Course of studies: Electronics and Telecommunications Status: Specialised Industrial technical director in Electronics and Telecommunications (60/100)

July 2000 - August 2000 “EF” study tour in Dublin.

English language studying.

October 2003 - July 2004 Postgraduate course “Cad techniques for furniture" and “Graphic design” organized by “Consorzio Acli Lavoro”.

Working environment projecting, house-plants designing & 3D cad drawing, inner spacing rendering, corporate identity design (logo, paper, envelope, brochure).

Graphic Programs used: Autocad, Illustrator, Photoshop, Viz Render Status: cad, furniture and graphic director.

September 2004 - March 2008 Politecnico di Milano – Industrial Design course - Ergonomy/Product.

Design elements projecting, vector and raster graphic.

Specialization on the functional and ergonomic valuation of the product to design.

Research about the destination target, user centered design.

Degree on product design, ergonomy, needs of people study and useful technologies for the creation of an industrial product.

Status: Industrial Design Degree (three-years graduation 93/110).

February 2009 - August 2009 ERASMUS: Porto (Portugal) At “Esad (Escola Superior de Artes e Design) di Matosinhos”.

Industrial product study courses attending, 3D modeling, drawing and drafting from life and national competitions partecipating. In particular: a. Design of 4 furnishing elements for the cultural and musical centre “Hard Club” that will grow up in the middle of the historical centre of Porto.

Recognition, quoted on “Journal das Noticias”, winner of the second prize at the “Hard Club competititon”. b. National train AGV (high speed train) interiors design and its “living structure” design.

Competition issued by Alstom. Selected like one of the three best projects made on ESAD The project partecipated to the final selection.

September 2008 - July 2011 Politecnico di Milano – Industrial Design course - Product Design.

Design elements projecting, vector and raster graphic.

Research work and learning of materials and production techniques.

Expansion and refinement of knowledge about prudct design, principal designers, supply and demand market and useful technologies for the creation of an industrial product.

Theory and developing of projects of Service Design.

Status: Industrial Design Degree (five-years graduation 107/110).

WORKING EXPERIENCES Summertime 2002,2004,2005,2009 Angelo Tenca's stagist at his architecture design office in Commessaggio (MN).

CAD computer design, graphic projecting, building sites investigation, archiving, printing.

May 2004 - August 2004 Contributor - stagist at graphic advertisement agency SCAE in Castellucchio (MN) Graphic projecting: logotypes, advertisement stuff, video and printed.

October 2007 - April 2008 Contributor - stagist at “Ellepi”, Lorenzo Palmeri office, in Milano.

Industrial design searching and projecting.

February 2008 Contributor - photoreporter in charge for Studio Labo (Milan Bovisa) as to the weekly event "Salone del Mobile", sponsored by Gas and Nokia.

February 2008 “Overbank” show together with Politecnico (Milano) and Credito Valtellinese.

Aim: bank of the future forecast.

Designer collaborator with the internal department “Indaco” of Politecnico di Milano; show at “Palazzo delle Stelline” (Milan), during the weekly event "Salone del Mobile".

Research, projecting and fitting out.

Ethnografic research, working place development and future bank customer reception; technologies research that can be developed in the next 20 years and application to the project.

May 2010 – July 2010 Contributor - stagist at Chiara Moreschi design office in Milan.

Industrial design reseaching and projecting.

3D design and virtual prototyped rendering.

Phisical prototypes making.

October 2011 – February 2012 Collaborating with “Politecnico di Milano” as assistant at the course of “Sintesi Finale”, 5th year of specialization on product design.

Working with Giulio Ceppi, Paolo Icaro, Massimo Fioruzzi, Virginio Briatore, Giacomo Mojoli.

Preparatory course for the final graduating project.

Pubblication of the book “Awareness Design”, Fausto Lupetti Dodici Edizioni

February 2012 – Today Working on Lorenz*Kaz Design Studio as a collaborator.

Industrial Design research and projecting, graphics, interiors, fair stands.

3D designing and virtual prototyped rendering, physical prototypes making.

Direct contact with companies as Rossin, Nemo, Zeitraum, Bedont.

Luglio 2012 – August 2012 Selected as a member of a team project at Lago Studio.

The brief was to design new products for Lago: chairs, sofas, beds, tables, lamps, storage systems.

Researching, projecting and prototyping.

Direct contact with Lago technology lab.

International team working. Individual final concepts.

PERSONAL SKILLS Language Mother tongue: italian Second languages: english (good level on writing, speaking and reading) portuguese (base level of speaking and understanding, “under construction”)

Technical skills Software used: MICROSOFT World, Excel, Power Point; ADOBE Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effect, Acrobat, Indesign; Think Design [3D], Sketchup [3D], Autodesk Autocad, Rhinoceros [3D]; Maxwell Render, Viz Render, Hypershot, Keyshot.

Artistic skills Music: Blues/rock drummer e good music history knowledge (especially rock).

Drawing: good skills free-hand drawing.

Creation of prototypes and functional models.

Relational and other skills Village Party Arranging.

Life sharing together with italian and not italian college mates.

Team working at University.

B driving license (car).

LINKS http://www.behance.net/micheletenca www.issuu.com/michele.tenca/docs/portfoliomicheletencaeng http://www.lorenz-kaz.com http://www.chiaramoreschi.com http://www.lorenzopalmeri.it http://www.lago.it http://lagostudio.com http://www.polimi.it