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Dora Izquierdo is an industrial designer that just graduated on May, she studied at Anahuac University at the lovely and crowded Mexico City, after too many nights without sleep, cutter wounds, cups of coffe at 3 in the morning to stay awake and end up a design project.
At her third year at uni, she flew to Ozland, known as Australia, to study Industrial Design as well, at Swinburne Univeristy of Technology and she still loves the aussie style. She took part of Designs Australia as an apprentice, designing and at the renovation and redecoration of the Chinese Museum located in Melbourne, Victoria. At the beauty Mexico, she has worked at Brava Interiors, a design studio located at the CAD (Centro de Arquitectura y Diseño), where she used to develop design proporsals with furniture from Zanotta, Alivar, Vitra, FontanaArte, Kundalini, Kristalia, etc. and dance once in a while when she felt tired of sitting on the chair during the evenings.

Apparently she speaks spanish, is quite strong in english, has a rusty italian, is learning japanese and nowdays, she has a nihon fever!

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Contact......
doraizqp@xdxdesign.com

Loves.....
designquesadillasFlashtravelingappleschocolatemilkjoggingartdanceJay
M. Thrasher sunny days colour pinkmusic chesse history Mexico

My motto.....
no worries mate / equis wey

+Oz, couch designed for a school project at my last design workshop class.

+Love, designed during my studies in Australia for the furniture design class.

+Sussie Q, name comes from the Creedence Clearwater Revival song, that I was listening while I was designing this garden lamp for the LED designboom contest.

+The white boy rocks white kisses for white lips, comes from a tuesday morning at the Richmond station. This poster represents a thought with a variety of graphics that were converted from the butterfly shapes

+ This poster concept combines the contemporary with the Art Nouveau. I wanted to represent the coexist of the human with the music, expresing love for the music as well as promoting an Sneaky Sound System concert.

+Jo, outdoor ball lamp that has 10 different LED´s that are covered some how the ball can rotate everywhere and each LED can light to different points, producing different lighting changing its position.

+Dosata, sunshade, table or couch as well, able for outdoor and indoor, hand made using wicker, metal, timber and bambu.

+ Posters designed for the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City >>http://www.mna.inah.gob.mx/ << during my social service

+ Website for an auction at the National Museum of Anthropology as well >> www.arte-sana.com.mx<<

+ T-shirts designed for an Oakley contest

+Some day work

+School project where we had to do something completely different that what we have done before during our design studies. So, I made this video that I produced, did all the embarassing stuff while my sister was filming. The video has a legend:

When everyone ask me about the daily smile on my face and wondered, How does she do it?, they do not know that it was something really hard to get back, after lossing the support of my life, it took me a while to smile again, then I discovered that all I needed was music, it wouldn't let me down, involving myself with all those feelings that come from the music words and taught me how to dance again.

The following videos were my first Final Cut videos:

+The next video was made by the rotoscoping technique which is an animation made frame by
frame.

+The Wizard of Oz video was my final project, were we had to present an old movie with contemporary style

There are some places, persons, situations and things that overwhelmed myself and get deeper on me, teaching me something new about life, I like taking pictures of them so I can remember that visual impact that they had on me. In spite of being pictures of the same country, I believe every country has heaps of diversity that can make you feel in a different culture and place.

Prahran station in Melbourne Australia, I used to walk on this way every day to get to home from uni, since the first time I walked by, this wall from an old building called my attention, symbolizing for me some of the ways the australians express themselfs and maybe without intention creating a piece of art.

Some lovely native mexican girls that I saw at the market in a trip to San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, this two shy little girls asked me for 5 pesos each in order to let me take them a picture, after I was overwhelmed of seen so many poor native mexican childhood at this place, I felt powerless and wanted to take this picture to remind me about this huge complicated situation that we have in Mexico and help me to do not forget about them. I gave 10 pesos each, so they smiled and lend me took the picture.