Design by Rodrigo Torres

Born in Bogotá - Colombia in 1976.
In 1998 he obtained his degree in Industrial Design from the faculty of Industrial Design of the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University in Bogotá and received the Master in Design at Domus Academy of Milan in 1999.
In 1997 he won the Mario SantoDomingo prize for the best students of design and architecture of Colombia and did a stage at the CID (Central Industrial Design) at Whirlpool Europe (Italy).
In 1998 he participated with his final thesis at the New Designers Exhibition in London that took part in the Business Design Centre.
In 2000 he was part of the BaciLab project from Domus Academy in wich he developed packaging for Baci Perugina’s chocolates under the guidance of Stefano Giovannoni.
From 2000 until 2004 he collaborated with Giovannoni’s studio as a designer developing products for companies such as Alessi, Fiat, Deborah, Magis, 3M, Oregon scientific, Helit, Artenoma and others.
In 2005 he won the “Lapiz de Acero” design award.
He has designed for companies such as Nike, Domodinamica, Kvaser, Miller and others.
He has been a teacher at the Istituto europeo di design from Turin, assistant teacher in many seminars at Domus Academy in Milan and has held conferences in the most important universities in Colombia.
He lives and works in Milan.

NEWS
+ New Mist Table presented
at the International Furniture Fair
of Milan, April 05 - 10, 2006
for Domodinamica, Italy

+ Mist and Duna armchairs
exhibited at La Fabrica del Design
by Domus Academy
Via Procaccini 4, Milan
April 06 - 21, 2006

+ Morfeo exhibited at
Mandarina Duck Store
Corso Europa, Milan

LINKS
domodinamica, mist, duna, morfeo, mist table, kvaser, pelpak, alessi, Stefano Giovannoni, Lapiz de Acero / Proyecto Diseño, revista axxis, magis,

KEYWORDS
Colombian designer, diseño colombiano, designer, milan, milano, italian design

CREDITS
Veronica Haglund Graphic Designer