JOVAN POPOVIC Industrial Designer jovanpopovic2@aim.com 248.520.3566 ABOUT JOVAN:
Jovan Popovic is a creative thinker, passionate about design and the process of creating new, innovative products. Inspired by the activities that he does throughout his life; playing basketball and football, watching stand-up comedy, Top Gear and traveling to his home town of Belgrade, Serbia where the best BBQ is made.
EDUCATION:
College for Creative Studies: Senior (2009-2013)
EXPERIENCE / RECOGNITION: Volvo Trucks Internship: Summer 2011 Internship
Volvo Trucks was a completely different and amazing experience, working on a concept project for the year 2040. Learning about current production and packaging issues and how designers deal with them, while experiencing the growling critiques every Thursday by Ken Grant and the rest of the designers. Volvo Trucks expanded my skills and thought process, while giving me the opportunity of real world design experience.
Reebok Internship: Summer Internship 2012
Weather its a lifestyle shoe or a technical perfomance sport shoe, footwear has always been my favorite product due to its diverse design expansion. Spending the summer at Reebok tought me a lot about footwear design and the industry.The expirience only furthered my interest in sneakers of all type.
Nike Sponsored Studio: Collaborating in a diverse group of advertising, photography and product design students to enhance the 2016 Brazil Olympics. Sponsored healthcare design studio with The Henry Ford Hospital: Leader of Team
Scrubs, working with the Henry Ford Innovation Institute and Wayne State Smart Sensors and Integrated Microsystems (SSIM) Program.
Soleology Instructor: A program at the College for Creative Studies where I teach students what I have learned about footwear design and help guide them through out their process of designing footwear. Teachers Assistant: Helping teach younger students design skills through visual communications along
side a CCS proffesor.
G.E. Intersection: Sophomore studio project published in Yankodesign.com, Hong Kong’s Next Magazine, and over 30 other online publications.
Nike Future Sole Competition 2010: Resulted top six in a nationwide footwear competition for college students as a freshman.
TOOL BOX:
Tackling a project: Beginning with consumer research, a target market is created and then the project is progressed through ideation phases, mock-ups, final renderings, and finally physical and digital scale models. - Ideation: mind mapping; sketching with marker, prismacolors, pastels, pens; paper, photoshop rendering, illustrator rendering, modeling foam/ foam core mock-ups. - Software: adobe photoshop, illustrator , indesign - rhinoceros 4.0 -sketchbook pro solidworks- keyshot 2.0/ flamingo/ photoview 360