Nicolas Cinguino








     

 


Nicolas Cinguino
Managing Partner - Co-founder Blank Group

Summary
With nearly 15 years based in China, Nicolas is respected as a pioneer in Chinese Design Methodology and an expert in multi cultural design management for brand building and development. Nicolas started his career in Shanghai as an industrial designer. Two years later, he co-founded Blank (Shanghai) co,.ltd with the vision of gathering the best experts with complementary fields in order to provide the highest level of strategic thinking and creativity in a country that was still discovering the design process and values. To this day, Blank has emerged as one of the most agile team of doers/explorers/dreamers in China, being able to merge various design disciplines and deliver concrete, actionable solutions that solves real users needs. Some of our clients include: 3M, Philips Kitchen Appliance, Fissler, Franke, Supor, Midea, BOE… Nicolas' Specialties: Design Strategy, Chinese Consumer Insight, User Experience Design (UED), Co-Creation Workshop, Public Speaking, Cross-culture Collaboration.
Experience
Blank Group
Design Director & Co-founder
July 2008 - Present (12 years 2 months)
L'École de design Nantes Atlantique
Guest Lecturer - Design & Innovation Consultant
January 2014 - July 2015 (1 year 7 months)
Design Consultant
Independent Design Consultant
July 2007 - July 2008 (1 year 1 month)

Release Date:Dec. 10,2020