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CV

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


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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