Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino, tinker.it
Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino (CEO & Co-Founder)
Alex was born in Montreal, Canada, but grew up in Paris and the Middle East. She returne to Canada to complete a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design at the Université de Montréal right after which she moved to Italy to complete a Master’s degree in Interaction Design at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea.
She then moved to Amsterdam and was involved in projects for clients such as Vodafone, Nokia, Motorola, Droog design, Thinglink, Jaiku, Blast Radius, fo.am and Blyk bringing creative and strategic leadership to multi-disciplinary teams.
In 2007, she relocated to London to set up the design studio Tinker.it! with the co-founder of the Arduino platform Massimo Banzi. Tinker.it! have been involved with clients such as Arup, Artemide, Accenture, National Geographic Store, The Guardian, Alfa Romeo and more.
In the past years she has been an active speaker on issues surrounding interaction design and how design will evolve out of it’s current top down state into a de-centralised model of empowerment and DIY problem-solving with the help of new technologies.
Conferences she has spoken at include Designmai 2007, Xtech 2007, PechaKucha Montreal and Bruxelles, Crosstalks, Reboot 10, Web2.0 Berlin, ThisHappened, Ignite Uk North, LIFT09 France, Slade Technology Fayre, Thinking Digital, TEDxLiverpool and she has been invited as a guest lecturerer at the University College of Antwerp, University for the Creative Arts in Farnham and Domus Academy in Milan.
Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino (CEO & Co-Founder)
Alex was born in Montreal, Canada, but grew up in Paris and the Middle East. She returned to Canada to complete a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design at the Université de Montréal right after which she moved to Italy to complete a Master’s degree in Interaction Design at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea.
She then moved to Amsterdam and was involved in projects for clients such as Vodafone, Nokia, Motorola, Droog design, Thinglink, Jaiku, Blast Radius, fo.am and Blyk bringing creative and strategic leadership to multi-disciplinary teams.
In 2007, she relocated to London to set up the design studio Tinker.it! with the co-founder of the Arduino platform Massimo Banzi. Tinker.it! have been involved with clients such as Arup, Artemide, Accenture, National Geographic Store, The Guardian, Alfa Romeo and more.
In the past years she has been an active speaker on issues surrounding interaction design and how design will evolve out of it’s current top down state into a de-centralised model of empowerment and DIY problem-solving with the help of new technologies.
Conferences she has spoken at include Designmai 2007, Xtech 2007, PechaKucha Montreal and Bruxelles, Crosstalks, Reboot 10, Web2.0 Berlin, ThisHappened, Ignite Uk North, LIFT09 France, Slade Technology Fayre, Thinking Digital, TEDxLiverpool and she has been invited as a guest lecturerer at the University College of Antwerp, University for the Creative Arts in Farnham and Domus Academy in Milan.
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Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino
Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino, tinker.it
Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino (CEO & Co-Founder)
Alex was born in Montreal, Canada, but grew up in Paris and the Middle East. She returned to Canada to complete a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design at the Université de Montréal right after which she moved to Italy to complete a Master’s degree in Interaction Design at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea.
She then moved to Amsterdam and was involved in projects for clients such as Vodafone, Nokia, Motorola, Droog design, Thinglink, Jaiku, Blast Radius, fo.am and Blyk bringing creative and strategic leadership to multi-disciplinary teams.
In 2007, she relocated to London to set up the design studio Tinker.it! with the co-founder of the Arduino platform Massimo Banzi. Tinker.it! have been involved with clients such as Arup, Artemide, Accenture, National Geographic Store, The Guardian, Alfa Romeo and more.
In the past years she has been an active speaker on issues surrounding interaction design and how design will evolve out of it’s current top down state into a de-centralised model of empowerment and DIY problem-solving with the help of new technologies.
Conferences she has spoken at include Designmai 2007, Xtech 2007, PechaKucha Montreal and Bruxelles, Crosstalks, Reboot 10, Web2.0 Berlin, ThisHappened, Ignite Uk North, LIFT09 France, Slade Technology Fayre, Thinking Digital, TEDxLiverpool and she has been invited as a guest lecturerer at the University College of Antwerp, University for the Creative Arts in Farnham and Domus Academy in Milan.
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