Freelancer profile translated to English.
Back to original languageAbout Xavier
Our daily lives are surrounded by more or less daunting and sometimes frightening technologies. My credo is to make connected (or not) objects remarkable, poetic, sensitive, and sometimes amusing by playing on symbols and status, to screen technology and make people want to live with it.
In parallel, I work on ergonomics and simplifying usage, which is obvious for a product, but complex to develop.
B2B products are no exception to the rule: if they are not ostentatious, they also need to reassure through their strong image to stand out...
My research spectrum encompasses the idea, forms, history, identity, brand, symbol, sensitivity, mechanics, industrial feasibility, and finally the packaging that triggers reassurance, the desire to see and to have. When he designed the first French Bluetooth headset in 2003, 3 million units were sold.
Factories are my playgrounds and workshops are the laboratories where I develop prototypes with artisans, hardware and software teams... I accompany the project through to manufacturing with all stakeholders, leaving nothing to chance, until its commercial success.
French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
Remote only
Primarily works remotely
Experience
- X A V I E R H O U Y designer ParisIndustrial Designer / Creative Director / Design StrategyTECHSeptember 1998 - Today (27 years and 9 months)Paris, FranceFor over 25 years, an industrial designer of iconic "sensitive objects," he has divided his time between France and production sites in China. XAVIER HOUY is recognized for marking our collective unconscious with his creations of strong symbolic image, such as the MULTO & LILO indoor gardens, the MOZAÏK luminous tiles, the PARANOCTA BULBEE lamp, the QOOQ tablet, MOTHER and its sensors, the PHONOTONIC instrument, the SIGMA, COGITO, NOVITACT "wearables" watches and bracelets... recently the LOVEBOX messaging box and DEBUSSY high-end HiFi headphones.Design Director for numerous high-tech startups, he has solid field industrial experience in the "supply chain" in China and France, with a dual expertise in industrial design, mechanics, manufacturing processes, materials, branding, and packaging. Co-author of 6 technical patents.For his work, XAVIER HOUY has received over 20 international design awards, including: the Platinum A’ Design, the Red Dot Design, the Green Good Design, the Observeur du Design label, the Janus de l'étudiant.
- OSUNGO Ltd / Paris - Hong-KongCo-founder / Creative Director and BrandTECHFebruary 2010 - December 2014 (4 years and 11 months)Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR ChinaEco-friendly devices for recharging mobile phonesDesign / certification / manufacturing CN / import-export
- IDA Industrie Design Architecture / Paris - MilanoCreative Director / Industrial DesignerARCHITECTURE AND URBAN PLANNINGJanuary 1993 - December 1997 (4 years and 11 months)Paris, FranceIndustrial design direction for products related to architecture and building.Team management, production monitoring.
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Education
- Master of Product Design Management, Industrial DesignEcole Supérieure de Design Industriel - new STRATE, Paris1992
- DUT GMP Mechanical Engineering and Production ProcessesUniversité de Rennes II1990