Nicolas Gaudron / cv   
contact [at] id-sl [dot] com



------------  Education

M.A. Design Products, Royal College of Art (London) / 2002

B.A. (Hons) Industrial Design, University of Central England (Birmingham) - first class / 2000

B.T.S. Assistant en Creation Industrielle, ENSAAMA (Paris) - major / 1999



------------  Employment

IDSL, Interaction Design Sight & Lab SARL / founder / 2007 - present

Renault, 'Prospective & Concept Car' dept. / interaction designer / 2005 - 2007

INRIA (French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control), Human Computer
Interaction laboratory, InSitu research group / product & interaction designer / 2003 - 2004

Sony Computer Science Lab (Paris) / design of the storyboard (with Virginia Cruz) of the "Cafe Sound
Life Paris" video, project from Atau Tanaka / 2003

IDEO, Smart Product department ( Palo Alto, California) / product & interaction designer / 2001

Plan Créatif / industrial designer / 1999 and 2000

L.D. sign / industrial designer / 1998



------------  Lectures and Teaching

Centre Georges Pompidou
- Third Eye & anomos mosign / organisation and moderation of
the "Design & New Media" conference with Virginia Cruz - speaker: Jussi Ängeslevä / 21-10-2007

ENSAD (Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs) / supervisor and teacher of the studio "smart
objects, product/interaction design" with Virginia Cruz / 2006 - 2007



------------ Awards

Design for our future selves Helen Hamlyn competition (London) / highly commended / 2002

Science Museum competition (London) / shortlisted / 2002

Miss Protocole competition organised by Piaget (Geneva) / prize winner / 2000

Robert Cantor Memorial Prize (Birmingham) / 1st prize / 2000

Georges Jackson Award competition (Birmingham) / shortlisted / 2000

Royal Society of Arts competition (London) / highly commended / 2000

Haute Orfevrerie Francaise organised by C.P.D.H.B.J.O. (Paris) / 1st prize - development and design
of a prototype in collaboration with Christofle / 1999

Les jeunes flammes competition organised by Gaz de France / 3rd prize / 1998



------------  
Exhibitions

Designer's Days organized by APCI / Galeries Lafayette Maison (Paris) / 2005

Festival de Trop / Espace Beaujon (Paris) / 2004

Grand Prix de la Creation de la Ville de Paris / show-room MTop (Paris) / 2004

RCA - The Show 2002 / Royal College of Art (London) / 2002

Miss Protocole Visionary Collection / fashion show (Paris) / 2000

Equipe Auto / Parc des Expositions Villepinte (Paris) / 1999



------------  Publications

Patent on "Véhicule à performances multimédia" / inventor: N. Gaudron / patent filed by RENAULT / 2007

Patent on "Affichage d’aide contextuelle pour la commande d’une fonction d’un véhicule" /
inventor: N. Gaudron / patent filed by RENAULT / 2007

Patent on "Dispositif de commande de fonctions rotatives pour une planche de bord d’un vehicule
automobile" / inventor: N. Gaudron / patent filed by RENAULT / 2007

Patent on "Système de régulation de vitesse d’un véhicule" / inventors: N. Gaudron et M. Pinel / patent filed
by RENAULT / 2006

Patent on "Système de visualisation de l’état de verrouillage d’un véhicule" / inventor: N. Gaudron / patent
filed by RENAULT / 2006

Patent on "Circuit de commande d’un module de traitement pour véhicule" / inventor: N. Gaudron / patent
filed by RENAULT / 2006

Patent on "Procédure d’aide au démarrage d’un véhicule automobile" / inventor: N. Gaudron /
patent filed by RENAULT / 2006

Patent on "Module de commande associé à un dispositif d’affichage pour véhicule" / inventor: N. Gaudron /
patent filed by RENAULT / 2006

Patent on "Communication control device" / inventors: Wendy Mackay, Michel Beaudouin-Lafon, Nicolas
Gaudron / patent filed by INRIA (PCT FR0402135) / 2004

Designing the User Interface : Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction, Ben Shneiderman et
Catherine Plaisant, Pearson Addison Wesley, Mai 2004 (page 186)

M. Beaudouin-Lafon, S. Conversy, B. Eiderbäck, N. Gaudron, H. Evans, H. Hansen, H. Hutchinson,
S. Lindquist, W. Mackay, C. Plaisant, N. Roussel, and B. Westerlund. interLiving deliverable 1.3 & 2.3,
studies of co-designed prototypes in family contexts. Technical report 231, CID/NADA, KTH, Sweden, 2004

W. Mackay, H. Evans, H. Hansen, L. Dachary, and N. Gaudron. Weaving an interactive thread: An
interactive event for Tales. In Proc. of Tales of the Disappearing Computer, Santorini, Greece, June 2003



------------  Press

Intramuros, n°105, p.107 (France) / Feb.-Mar. 2003

Agenda Magis - Royal College, Open For Inspiration by Sebastian Bergne, n°2 (Italia) / Dec. 2002

Blueprint, n°199 (U.K.) / Sep. 2002

Intramuros, n°89 (France) / June-Jul. 2000

Design fax (France) / May 2000

Archi Design, n°7 (France) / Oct-Dec 1999

Le Figaro Magazine, n°17312 (France) / Apr. 1999

Intramuros, n°81 (France) / Feb. 1999

Confort Menager, n°134 (France) / Mar. 1999

Design fax (France) / Feb. 1999










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