Juho Viitasalo
Industrial Designer


Professional History:
(Currently) Executive Producer / Propex Inc. (Japan)
Product Design Advisor / Designart Inc. (Japan)
Product Designer / Design Viitasalo Ltd. (Finland)
Graphic Designer / Finnish Defense Forces
Project Coordinator / SITRA Finnish National Fund for Research and Development
Researcher / SITRA Finnish National Fund for Research and Development
Assistant Teacher (Final Cut Pro HD, Alias Studio Tools) / IK Design Center Lund University

Selected Design Projects:
iPhone accessories - Tunewear, Tokyo, Japan and Hong Kong
Brand identity and interior design - Aurinko Finland Shop, Japan
Business Class Concept - Finnair Plc. Helsinki, Finland
Device Design - Johnson Space Center, NASA, Houston TX, USA
Submarine interior concept - Kockums/HDW
Manta, mobile game device - Teleca Inc, Lund, Sweden

Memberships and Associations:
Japan Industrial Designers' Association, JIDA
Transcultural Management Society (Tokyo, Japan)
All Nippon Kyudo Federation

Education:
Universities: Lund University (Sweden), Danmarks Designskole (Denmark)
Academic Degrees: Master of Fine Arts - Industrial Design, Bachelor of Arts - Japanese

Software:
Alias|Wavefront Studio Tools (Autodesk)
Alias Maya (Autodesk)
Final Cut Pro HD (Apple)
Max (Autodesk)
Macromedia Freehand
Adobe Creative Suites
+ other 3D and 2D graphics packages and office applications. Windows, Mac OS X and Silicon Graphics Irix.
Python
iPhone Software Development

Media work:
Print publications
Digital film production
Studio and on-site photography

Exhibitions and Conferences:
3GSM World Congress 2004, Cannes, France
Speaker - International Space Development Conference 2005, Washington DC, USA

Prizes and Awards:
Design Contest 1998 / Heineken Breweries
Ideas Competition 1999 / National Space Development Agency of Japan