Christoph MAYR
Career profile
Highly ambitious, reliable and hard working student, eager to learn and improve skills. Bringing along creativity, curiousness and humor as well as trained skills in the fields of sketching, CAD and graphic design. Seeking for challenges, awaiting the new. Strong in the conceptual and form finding process, cooperative in every field of design. Due to the many and wide-ranging school projects I gained persistence, deep insight in the different processes and a serene mind.
Key experience
Computer skills
- Alias StudioTools – designing and rendering
- Solid Works
- Pro Engineer
- Bunkspeed
- Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign
- Poser
Drawing skills
From rough ball pen scribbles to detailed canson renderings, from quick marker sketches to precise pastel drawings
Model-building
- milling and working on the turning lathe
- clay-modeling
- prototyping
Consulting and working together with clients and companies such as
- Philips DAP Klagenfurt
- Austrian/Italian Committee of Solicitors
- Spidercam Europe
- Municipal fire brigade Klagenfurt
- Thonet Graz
Career History
BreadedEscalope
Summer 2008
Internship at a young and ambitious design team
- Lighting Concepts
- Research and market analysis
- Prototype-buidling
2006 – 2007
Social service on a monastery estate
Summer and Fall 2005
Co-organizing and –designing for “The happy Glass Machine” exhibition in Klagenfurt
Hirsch AG
Summer 2003
Internship in the Design Department – worldwide wristband and watch manufacturer
- Contributed to the Collection 2004
- Research and market analysis
2001 – 2006
Several summer jobs
Education
2007 – present
University of Applied Sciences FH Joanneum Industrial Design
2005 – 2006
Diploma thesis in Industrial Design – in cooperation with Philips Klagenfurt
“ava m – the Army Clipper”; a group-project
2001 – 2006
Higher Technical School Ferlach for Machine Engineering and Industrial Design
‘A’ levels – Art History, English, Manufacturing Technology, History, Mechanics
1997 – 2001
Bilingual grammar school (English/German) in Villach
1996 – 1997
King’s School Newcastle, England