Nathalie de Vallière
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Nathalie de Vallière

Lead Product Designer in London

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7 months ago

About

Currently at technology-driven design studio Bakken & Baeck in London.

Projects

2022

Defining, designing and building systems end-to-end at Bakken & Baeck for tracing plastic in a circular infrastructure with Aion.

2022

Led project at Bakken & Baeck to help the Norwegian fashion start-up Fjong streamline their business and enable their international expansion to Denmark. Oversaw design and build of internal tools for warehouse and partner management. Created assets, designed and oversaw build for marketing sites. Created wireframes and initial concepts for a customer-facing app.

2021
Concepts for Interior Design AR App at IKEA

At Bakken & Baeck worked with spatial computing team to create designs and prototypes for an AR app that democratises interior design. Created extension of existing IKEA SKAPA design system to suit AR environment.

2021

Created winning concept for a re-design pitch of the Stink Films website.

2021

Designed and oversaw development of portfolio website.

2020

Designed ecommerce platform for clothing brand ATID by Alexander Taylor.

2020
Concepts for redesign at It's Nice That

Created concepts for a redesign of the digital platform of It's Nice That to showcase the best of the creative industry.

2020

Created prototypes in code with variable type.

2019

Created concepts in C4D for teaser page and designed website for Odunpazarı Modern Museum in Turkey.

2019

Created concepts, 3D motion work and designed the website for the exclusive secret sale site of one of the world's most famous designer shoe brands.

2018

Created seasonal interactive cursor to add element of playfulness. Created visual assets for cursor from sketches from the designer Manolo Blahnik himself.

Speaking

2022
New York

Presented a case study of work I led at Bakken & Baeck to help the next generation of creatives understand what a design career can look like.

Side Projects

2022
Seen

Seen is an internal initiative that began a year and a half ago, against the backdrop of pandemic-triggered racism against Asians.

Through a collection of personal conversations between Asian practitioners within BB and beyond, the project explores the interplay between race, ethnicity, and our creative practices and careers in the design industry.

2020
Streaming Consciousness

Built and designed an experimental project with Twomuch studio and Pitch studio that presents a time capsule of the innermost thoughts of young people in a digitally-driven world, experienced through an interactive website and installation.

2018
Degree Show Website at Central Saint Martins

Built and designed the degree show website with Twomuch studio of graduating class of BA graphic and communication design at Central Saint Martins.

2018
Branding for Music Festival at Metaphonica

Created concepts for branding using prototypes done in code, Unity3D, C4D and AfterEffects.

Features

2022

“How do we make it cuter?”: Seen uses soft Y2K aesthetics to welcome users into an ongoing conversation about Asian identity in the creative industry.

2022

IKEA has taken its Place app and pimped it to create IKEA Studio, a much-needed overhaul of the furniture brand's augmented reality offering.

2018

A new publication that proves print and digital don't have to be mutually exclusive.

Work Experience

2020 — Now
2018 — 2020
2017 — 2017
2015 — 2015

Education

2015 — 2018

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