Mikel Smithers

I’m an Industrial Designer and Product Engineer with a passion for product design, development, CAD modelling, product rendering, visualisation, and graphic design.

work experience.

December 2024 – …: Visual Product Designer at Nacar Design (Barcelona) for Roche Diagnostics.

May 2024 – December 2024: Industrial Product Design Engineer at I-Mas in Barcelona.

September 2023 – April 2024: Industrial Product Designer at More On Simplicity (MOS) in Barcelona.

August 2023: Contracted by Trikthom (Belgium) to design an electronics casing and develop it for injection moulding.

April 2023 – June 30th 2023: Industrial Product Design Intern at Puig(i)CabezaDesign in Barcelona.

August 2022 – September 2022: Freelance work for Trikthom (Belgium) as a product designer.

2017, 2018 and 2019: Doplay. Taught Lego Robotics to children of 5 to 15 years of age for 3 weeks during the summer and 1 week during Christmas in Gipuzkoa.

September 2018 – June 2021: Trainer of the FLL (First Lego League) team Overclock Axular.

education. courses. awards.

- university studies

2022 (September) – 2023 (July): Product Design and Development Masters in Elisava University, Barcelona. Winner, Elisava Masters Award (Project: Airflow).

2021–2022: Erasmus program at Howest University of Applied Sciences (Kortrijk, Belgium), studying fourth year of Industrial Product Design.

2018–2022: Industrial Design and Product Development Engineering degree in Mondragon Unibertsitatea, the Basque Country.

– Grasshopper Structural Mastery Course by Nolan Kim at Lemanoosh.

– Languages:
English: Native Speaker with Advanced Cambridge Exam Level B, June 2017.
Euskara: Native Speaker, EGA 2017.
Castellano: Native Speaker.
French: Conversational level.