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  • Rei Rei is a customizable smartlamp, which enriches the reading experience for its users through the utilization of the smartphone device as the lamps key light source and intelligent backing system. Its flexible design allows users to easily control the position of the light through its bendable support, allowing Rei to be used as a lamp, a phone holder, and a mobile charger. With multiple light options included, rei gives users the freedom to modify the light temperature, intensity, and color of their light through simple interactions with the lamp base. The intelligent system, which runs through a mobile application, creates multiple uses for the product, making it so much more than just a reading light. Its main features include text recognition, real-time query options, customizable notification alerts, personalized schedule reminders and the ability to share what you’ve captured with your network. The reading experience becomes truly enhanced with rei’s endless versatility.
        2013 Interaction Design, Product Design, UI/UX
  • Nodo Nodo is a module for to enhance human creativity.
    Thanks to the stainless steel and Corian, Nodo can be use to store, to make green walls, build your personal space and give you some fun while thinking what kind of new possibilities you can achieve.
        2013 Furniture Design, Industrial Design, Toy Design
  • Green Dynamite The market offers boring pots which just focus on functionality and in other cases accompanied with complex patterns and decorations or enhanced with powerful but confusing and expensive electronic solutions, leaving away the emotional attachment that will encourage us to keep the plant and the pot, banishing the most important point; our will to have plants to enjoy and take care of them.     2013 Industrial Design, Product Design
  • Eatabilty for BLM BLM Group, the global leader in the production of machineries for tube processing, designing indoor and outdoor furniture using tubes as main elements.

    Stats:
    In Collaboration with: BLM group.
    Design and strategy: Kaisha B Davierwalla and Miguel Silva.
        2013 Furniture Design, Industrial Design
  • DIT - Design It Together DIT- “Design it together” is about connecting people by the use of a system and addressed them to maximize the creativity and economy of an active social community into a glocality by the design of a set of connectors that can lead into a multicultural approach, in this case the design of an international bench that in an artistically way show how the aesthetic of different countries can live together.     2012 Entrepreneurship, Furniture Design, Product Design
  • Living Sticks Living sticks is a set of friendly furniture for everyone in the family.

    Stats:
    Stakeholder: Miguel Silva
    Time spent on project: 5 weeks
    Design: Miguel Silva
        2011 Furniture Design, Product Design
  • Doni for Dupont In Collaboration with: MUMEDI (Mexican museum of Design) and Dupont
    Year: 2010
    Designer: Miguel Silva

    Doni. (in Otomi means “Flower”) The aim of this project was to explore the qualities that Corian as a material can bring to people, eventually in order to show the human connection that Corian has with people I decided to design an iconic piece of furniture for the interior and exterior, showing in that way Corian physical properties .
    Doni was designed as a playful sculptural piece to spare some time whit kids, reading a book, taking a phone call or just to chill out a bit. Doni is to improve the space and human connection.

    Doni got shortlisted in the "Corian Contest" by Dupont and MUMEDI , and was exposed in the Mexican Museum of Design.
        2010 Furniture Design, Product Design, Toy Design
  • Don Julio Real Don Julio Real, was designed with the purpose of giving a new appeal to Tequila® for Don Julio® in order to bring out a new understanding of identity.
    Tequila has represented not just a delicious Mexican beverage, its fine distilled juice obtained by the extraction process from the heart of the uniqueness of the blue agave plants grown in Mexico, give an international recognition of traditions and experience.

    Stats:
    In Collaboration with: Julio Calva
    Design: Miguel Silva
        2010 Branding, Industrial Design, Packaging
  • Tuna Mezcal Mezcal is distilled from agave that is produced outside the boundaries Jalisco state in Mexico, it’s extracted from the distillation process of pineapple to eventually obtain the unique juice that gives the final shape of mezcal. The best known Mezcal is the one produced in Oaxaca and is distinguished by having a typical smoke flavor, nevertheless it can also be incorporated in a synthetic, fruit and homemade distillation process.

    Stats:
    Design: Miguel Silva
    Year: 2010
        2010 Packaging, Product Design, Branding
  • Chocolate and Milk Reinvent

    Stats:
    Stakeholder: Miguel Silva
    Time spent on project: 1 week
    Design and Strategy: Miguel Silva
        2009 Product Design
  • Go weight Go Weight, highlight people as the center of the design strategy to develop a dumbbell with better ergonomics.
    The final outcome considered a simple and economical way to produce the dumbbells (sand casting). Its organic shape was envisioned for an easier use for people with different sizes of hands and some limitation in their movements, as well to perfomr activities while moving, such as jogging and walking.
        2008 Industrial Design, Product Design
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