Ismael Abedin Ingelmo

 

IN A NUTSHELL

• IED Barcelona
• Interior Design - 2008
• Interior designer and Sustainability Consultant

YOU NOW:

My career has been full of movement, I have always been interested in working on nice designs, wherever they are located. A job brought me here and I thought it was going to be temporary, and now it’s almost six years! In Shanghai now I work, mainly as an interior designer and sustainability consultant. In Shanghai and China, I did projects for many different areas like residential, offices, restaurants, etc. Nowadays I’m more focused on hospitality, including theme park resorts, international hotel planning and design, etc. (The picture above is one of Ismael’s collaborations in China, more info in Ismael's website below).

YOU AND IED:

I had much fun and good moments at IED Barcelona, I liked one workshop we did for one of Barcelona’s most famous beer brands called Moritz. Over 100 students spent one whole night brainstorming and developing ideas at IED, of course, we had to “test the product” while creating, so it was a fun night of creation. Multiculturalism and a multidisciplinary environment are one of the things I like a lot about IED because in real life we don’t work alone (at least not me) and need to fuse ideas with people from different areas of the world, so it is very important to be able to understand them. It helped me to be ready to open myself to new cultures when I moved to different countries in America, the Middle East, and Asia.

ADVICE:

 I recommend that they get in touch with the industry as soon as possible, and start doing things, helping other designers, producing small personal projects, testing them in the market and getting involved in different kinds of projects. Even if they think Design is not their expertise it is very interesting as a job. But as a difference with other jobs, sometimes things come from the inner initiative. I believe that a good designer can design many different things, that’s why in my (still young) career I passed through different areas including marketing, graphic, industrial and interior design, architecture, and even urban planning and environmental assessment. Doing things is the best way for people to learn a lot about themselves, find their path and the reason to “make the design” in their life.  Also I would recommend not forgetting about the environment when designing! We need to be conscious of what materials and techniques we use to minimise our impact on the planet. “