We Are Smooth
We are a Creative Design Studio based in Milan, Italy.
Good design is aesthetic, easy to use, and full of fun.
我们相信，好的设计是好看的、好用的、好玩儿的。
It consists of a group of designers and engineers from world-renowned universities, such as Politecnico di Milano, China Academy of Art, Jiangnan University, Rajiv Gandhi Prodyogiki Vishwavidyalaya, Parsons School of Design, Aarhus University, etc.
The work we have done covers a wide range of fields, including lighting design, medical product design, interaction design, wearable design, smart product design, and so on. We team has worked with Microsoft, Vivo, ofo, Dream Technology, BLS Group, Delcon, Midea, ComfTech, SCILIF, Alcantara SpA, Medel International, etc.
The People of Smooth
Shuai
Creative Designer
Shuai is graduated from Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and is also a master's exchange student at Aarhus University, master course participant at Parsons School of Design, and an experimenter in Aalto University Materials Laboratory, and an outstanding graduate of Nanchang University.
He has cooperated with many multinational companies such as Microsoft Research, BLS, Delcon, ComfTech, SCILIF, etc. He has successively served as the material designer of Datemats, the product designer of CILAB, the medical device designer of Medel International srl, and the user experience designer of Dreame Technology.
He has won the International Inspirational Scholarship, Outstanding Student Scholarship, Erasmus Exchange Scholarship, and Erasmus Internship Scholarship. He has won more than ten national design awards such as the "China Packaging Creative Design Competition", "Tiangong Cup" in Jiangxi Province, etc.
Bob Zhang
CMF Designer
Graduated from China Academy of Art (CAA) with a bachelor of Fine Arts and from Politecnico di Milano with a master degree in science, majoring in design and engineering.
During the studies in Italy, he was involved in research on the application of recycled materials in the field of product design in the making materials lab. He has also worked with many domestic companies and design studios such as Yuyin Intelligent Ltd., Mao Zhi Furniture Ltd. and Designhub, creating equipment products, home furnishings and public entertainment facilities, among which ten projects have been put into production; he has designed intelligent home appliances and smart boarding systems for foreign companies such as Candy Group and Volpi Studio, and received recognition for my product + service solutions.
He is a Solidworks certified professional engineer, familiar with the processing and manufacturing of common engineering materials, and has certain cost reduction design capabilities.
Lorenzo Gasperini
Product Designer
Lorenzo is an alumni of Politecnico di Milano, Italy holding an BSc degree in Industrial Product Design and an MSc degree in Design & Engineering. Though he is specialised in Industrial Design, he has competed and ranked in both Design and Engineering competitions. He won the 2017 BADc BEST IV edition Architecture and Design competition, was a national finalist in the 2018 CleanTech Challenge and ranked third in the 2018 European Best Engineering Competition (EBEC) CNH Case Study and the Campionato Universitario Makers Milan.
His professional collaborations include working with Moroso S.p.A & Front Design Studio, Yamaha Music Corporation & Studio Suzuki, BLS and E-Novia to name a few. Lorenzo has a passion for model making, additive manufacturing and parametric modelling. In his spare time. he can be found programming musical instruments and composing music.
Vel Zhong
Commercial Brand Designer
Graduated from Nanchang University, majoring in industrial design, and obtained a bachelor's degree in applied psychology from Nanchang University. She has won many school scholarships, university student advertising art festival awards and Guangdong industrial designer qualification certification.
She has worked in the real estate and education industries, has work experience in different fields, understands the needs of customers with different identities in various fields, and can flexibly use them in actual projects.
She has cooperated with geographic surveying and mapping companies to instantiate modeling software in Chinese; has experience in municipal project cooperation with governments in Xinjiang, Haikou and other regions; has cooperated with many large domestic enterprises and was responsible for the surface painting of chimneys in the entire factory of Chongqing Iron and Steel Group Graphic design, as well as Shanghai Baosteel, Shandong Iron and Steel Group, etc. have close cooperation projects.
Shera Cao
Interaction Designer
She graduated from the School of Design of Jiangnan University with a master's degree, is also a master's exchange student of Politecnico di Milano, and graduated from Nanjing University of Technology with an undergraduate degree and won the honorary title of outstanding graduate.
She has cooperated with companies such as Jingzao, and also participated in various international competitions with the team. She worked as an interactive designer in Shanghai Shichuang Product Design Co., Ltd., a product manager in Jiangsu Amber Education Technology Co., Ltd. At present, she works in the Software R&D Center of Wuxi Branch of China Telecom Co., Ltd. as UI/UE.
She has won the silver award in the 5th China Internet + College Students' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition National Finals, the second prize in the 5th Jiangnan University Internet + College Students' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, and the first prize in the 9th National College Students' Entrepreneurship Competition, etc. And she has three utility model patents.
Previous Members
Shubhendra Pratap Singh
DESIGNER & ENGINEER