Carlos Montana industrial designer

Carlos Alberto Montana Hoyos was born in Bogotá, Colombia, South America. A native Spanish speaker, Carlos is also fluent in English, Italian and Japanese. He graduated as an industrial designer in 1997 from Javeriana University. In 2006 he obtained his master`s degree with honors from Kobe Design University, with a scholarship from the Japanese Government.  He has worked for several industries (including Unilever and Colceramica in his country and Whirlpool Europe SRL in Italy), in the areas of package design, electric appliance design, furniture design, lamp design, handcraft design and ceramic design. Several of his projects have received diverse design awards in his country as well as internationally, being the most recent a first prize in the DuPont Imagineering Design Competition in Japan (2004), an honorable mention at the Braun Prize (2005), and being selected as one of the most influential young designers in his country (2006).  Currently he lives in Asia and develops his own projects, works as a design lecturer, writes articles for diverse design related media and pursues a PhD in design.

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c_a_montana@yahoo.com