Seisho Freelancer

Design Advisory

Seisho Freelancer
München, Germany

Experience

Jan 2022 - Present
2 years 4 months

Design Advisory

Pliant

Supporting Pliant on all design related topics, from setting up rebranding projects to hiring designers, as well as setting up cross-functional collaboration model.

May 2022 - Present
3 years
Munich, Germany

Freelance Designer / Design Leader / Design Consultant

Independent Design Service

Acting as a designer / design leader for product design, brand design, and design ops projects. Also, consulting organisations for various design related topics — team building, design ops, and design reviews.

May 2022 - Dec 2022
8 months

Chief Design Officer

Pliant

Taking part in the leadership team and strategically contributing through the lens of design. Building and leading product design, brand design, research, and content design teams. Focused on improving the user experience, brand building and fostering a customer-focused design-driven culture.

Sep 2021 - Apr 2022
8 months

Design Advisory

Pliant

Supporting Pliant on all design related topics, from setting up rebranding projects to hiring designers, as well as setting up cross-functional collaboration model.

Sep 2019 - Present
5 years 8 months
Munich, Germany

Visiting Tutor for Digital Product School

Unternehmertum DPS

Tutoring on UX topics for cross-functional teams weekly and supporting workshops for some batch. One-off mentorship for some batches.

Jun 2019 - Apr 2022
2 years 11 months

Head of Design

Azena Bosch IoT Startup

Taking a part of senior management while building and leading a cross-functional design team covering an eco-system with multiple products, brand, and research that informs key decision makings.

Feb 2017 - Jul 2018
1 year 6 months
Estonia

Visiting Tutor / Judge for Master Thesis

Estonian Academy of Arts

Visiting tutor for teaching students of MA Interaction Design course. Also participating as a jury at the defense of master thesis.

Jun 2015 - Dec 2019
3 years 7 months

Design Director

frog

Acting as the connective tissue between all disciplines, and ensuring that the strategic-creative vision is successfully articulated and executed on programs and across other initiatives. Directing project teams, leading business developments, hiring, team building, and managing/mentoring people.

May 2011 - May 2015
4 years 1 month
Japan

Principal Designer, Project Lead, Design Director

IDEO

Taking a part of building-up IDEO start-up office in Tokyo. Involved in wide range of activities for developing IDEO presence in Japan. Leading projects and also hands-on for design research, visual communication and interaction design.

May 2009 - May 2010
1 year 1 month
Germany

Senior Art Director

Leo Burnett Germany

Responsible for the international brand strategy, campaigns and communication for global clients.

Jun 2003 - May 2009
6 years

Product, Visual Communication for global clients

Independent Designer

Design research, strategy, branding, product design, visual communication design and interaction design for companies and design firms such as Castel, Coca-Cola, IDEO, Kokuyo, Mathmos, NHK, Schneider, Sony, Swarowski and ?What If!.

Jan 1997 - Dec 1999
3 years
Italy

Football Player

Juventus F.C.

Playing football in the youth category.

Summary

I am coming from a multi-disciplinary design background with a strong emphasis on human-centred design. I have been playing role of design leader for the past 13 years and my passion is to create positive impacts through design and help others to be more creative. I believe design can bring people together from different backgrounds on the same table. Design can unlock creativity of people. Design can frame right questions. Design can answer the questions in creative ways. Nothing excites me more to work with talented people who believe in the same thing.

Languages

Japanese
Native
English
Advanced
Italian
Intermediate
German
Elementary

Education

Oct 2002 - Jun 2006

Central St. Martins College of Art & Design

BA (Hons) · Product Design

Oct 2002 - Jun 2003

Central St. Martins College of Art & Design

Foundation Diploma