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Innovation Interest(s):

Design of the world and the world of design
Can we create on the same scale we destroy?

Organization(s) and Title(s):

SVII Affiliate
Academy of Art
Cogswell Polytechnical College

Current Relevant Project(s):

Classified

Past Relevant Project(s):

Helped set up Digital content creation region in Castille y Leon Spain.
Have designed Boats, medical equipment, cars and consumer electronics

Short Bio:

Max Sims is the principal of the design and strategy consulting firm Technolution. Technolution’s clients rangefrom ILM, PDI, EA and Pixar, on the entertainment design front to frogdesign, Inline Audio, Interbrand Schecter, Fitch, and Lunar design in the ID sector. He is also the lead author of the critically acclaimed of Inside Maya5 by New Riders Press. Max Sims has worked for Alias and then think3 where he was the product manager for thinkreal and thinkshape. At Alias he lead the software to be used as the authoring device for the games industry most notably he Nintendo 64. He was 3d production manager for luuluu.com a digital fashion internet startup. Mr Sims is currently Assistant Professor for 3D modeling and rendering  at Cogswell Polytechnical College and adjunct faculty Academy of Art University(AAU) where he has taught for 6 and 13 years respectively. the AAU ID department won best school at the Canadian Auto show

Max Sims is an award winning Brazilian born Industrial designer with an extensive computer graphics background. His work has appeared on the covers of ID and rana magazine as well The Architecture of Cyberspace. Max Sims has won a  2004 Medical design excellence award and Industrial design excellence award for the Natus Algo 3i with Pemstar Consulting. This screens newborn’s hearing to refer the child at the earliest stages of development resulting in significantly fuller life. 

Education:

Art Center College of Design
University of Illinois Chicago
Academy of Art University

Inspiration(s):

Syd Mead
Santiago calatrava
Frank Gehry
Frank Lloyd Wright
Nature

Hometown:

Rio de Janeiro Brasil

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