Consuelo Yávar Larraín

Designer

Birth Date: PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL GOALS

April 15th 1981
Nationality: • Work with interdisciplinary teams in the creation of new projects and
Chilean ventures. I am a conceptual thinker and creative translator all the way through
Email Address: to implementation. I believe products and services need a better sense of
consueloyavar@gmail.com clarity and communication with a higher level of social understanding.
Mobile Number:
07576273810 • Support firms and organizations to construct communicational and
Address: design strategies with innovation techniques. Confident within
Flat 12 Halley House multidisciplinary team work and the design process from initial brief to final
46 Vauxhall Bridge Road product, including qualitative and observational research .
SW1V 2RU Comfortable communicating and building excellent working relationships.
London I understand the work space, flow and processes that enable me to undertake
leadership or management roles.

Portfolio : • Enrich my job experience by academic work. I am continuously curious

www.happytogether.cl about people, design, sustainability, communication, innovation, technology
and and try to excite the future.

PROFESIONAL DEGREES

• MA Design Studies (distinction), Central Saint Martins,

University of Arts London. 2010
• DESIGNER, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. 2002-2006
• BACHELOR IN HUMANITIES, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

Aditional studies:

• One year taken at Politecnico de Milano, in Disegno de la

Comunicazione major. (2004)
• Workshop: TrimarchiDG with Stefan Sagmeister, Graphic Design
Conference in Mar del Plata, Argentina. (Sep 2006)
• Postgraduate Dip: Cross Media expert level, at MAC Academy. One
year diploma which integrates the worlds of digital creative environments,
graphics, and digital web and video. (Apr. 2007 – Apr. 2008)
• Course: Innovative Keys for the Enterprises. Business School
Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (Aug-Dec 2008)
• Postgraduate Dip: Visual Communication, Pontificia Universidad
Católica. (March-Dec 2009)

WORK EXPERIENCE

June 2010 - Aogost 2010

Internship at Hide&Seek London. Design and startegic planner.
Hide&Seek make social games and playful experiences.
They expand the boundaries of play, reaching out into public space, new
technologies, culture and media. http://www.hideandseek.net/

March 2009 – Dic 2009

Project Manager of –Plataforma Networks- a company committed to build
Architecture and Urbanism contents on the Web.
Rol: I’ve been in charge of communication strategies and creating a website
aimed to spread Chilean Architecture in China. This project is financed and
supported by the government’s Innovation Corporation, and is framed in a set of
policies intended to better Chilean Country’s image. (www.archdaily.com,
www.plataformaurbana.cl)

Dic 2007 – Dic 2009

Design Chief. e-Class, flexible education program from the Adolfo Ibañez
University Business School. (www.eclass.cl)
Role: Development and design of communication strategies for design led and
research projects developed in the centre for printed and digital media.
Participation in user testing, team planning and development meetings.

March 2008 – March 2009

Meridiano Sur Petit Hotel. Marketing strategy, visual identity development, web
design and enviromental design. (www.meridianosur.cl) Hotel numer 1 in chile
according TRIPADVISOR.

March 2008 – Dec 2009

Assistant Professor “Proyect Communication”, Pontificia Universidad
Católica Design School.

Augost 2007 - Dec 2007

La Tercera, main Chilean Newspaper. Infography contributor.

April 2007 – July 2007

Slang Magazine for College audiences. Design and Art direction, along with
strategic administration.