10 Years of Award-Winning Design/


YEAR AWARD PROJECT
2010
red dot Luminary Award 2010 CTRUS Football**
red dot best of the best 2010 CTRUS Football**
IDSA - International Design Excellence Award, Bronze 2010 SanDisk ImageMate® Readers*
Honorable Mention at The CSS Awards 2010 AGENT Website**
Finalist at Singapore Furniture Design Award 2010 Guarda Inside Out Collection
   
2009
Print Magazine - Regional Design Award 2009 DFGS*
red dot award: product design 2009 SanDisk ImageMate® Readers*
Chicago Athenaeum Good Design Award SanDisk ImageMate® Readers*
 
2008
Honorable Mention at 'Seoul Sustainable City Life of the Future' competition Heart + Seoul*
red dot design award 2008 MX-Libris
Finalist at "Taxi for Mexico City" competition organized by ICYT / local government MX-Lirbis
Frost & Sullivan Medical Devices Product of the Year Award CKG4 Concept*
 
2007
red dot design award 2007 Habit Forming*
IDSA/Business Week - International Design Excellence Award, Bronze 2007 Cascuz*
Runner up at Metropolis Magazine Next Generation 2007 competition. BrightWalk
iF Hannover Product Design Award 2007 CKG4 Concept*
Best Hyperintellectual Show-and-tell Award, Best of the Bay 2007 of The San Francisco Guardian
PechaKucha-SF
 
2006
red dot best of the best 2006 Cascuz
Chicago Athenaeum Good Design Award CKG4 Concept*
IDSA/Business Week - Industrial Design Excellence Award, Bronze 2006 CKG4 Concept*
 
2005
red dot design award 2005. BrightWalk
Zanicdesign V.3 nominated to "Site Of The Year 2004" (SOTY) by Netdiver.net Zanicdesign.com V.3
 
2004
Honorable Mention at "TIMEX 2154" Core77 competition Elastime
 
2003
Honorable Mention at Popular Science Mag. & Core77 "Design Challenge 2" BrightWalk
 
2002
Netdiver magazine recognized Zanicdesign as "Outstanding website". Zanicdesign.com V.2
Awarded as Honorary Member of the National Association of Research in Didactics of Spain.  
 
2000
Winner of "Gabino Barreda" Medal, to the best grades of each program at UNAM (Mexico).  
Winner of CONACYT scholarship (National Council for Science and Technology, Mexico).  
Winner of Diploma for Excellence Performance Student, School of Architecture, UNAM (2000).  
 
1999
First prize of "Stone Design Contest", at Istituto Europeo di Design, Milan, Italy. Litos
Third place in the Mexican Society of Mechanical Engineering contest: "Self propelled airplane"  
Winner of Diploma for Academic Excellence, School of Architecture, UNAM (1999, 1998 & 1997)  
   
**with AGENT
*with LUNAR


Exhibitions/


YEAR EXHIBITION PROJECT
2011 "Mabe Cocinas de Autor", Mexico City / Mexico Cocina Rehilete**
"3 Concepts 1 Idea to Share", Vallery Gallery, Barcelona / Spain Aava Twist Smartphone**
''Fábrica Mexicana" at Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City / Mexico MX-Libris
''Fábrica Mexicana" at Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City / Mexico CTRUS Football**
Design & Foot Exhibition at Citè du Design Saint Etienne /France CTRUS Football**
International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) New York / USA The Isle of I Sink & OUT Chair**
     
2010 red dot Design Concept Winners Exhibition / Singapore CTRUS Football**

 

2009
Exposición Cambia: Pequeños Actos, Grandes Efectos / UNAM's Architecture School lobby, Mexico. MX-Libris
SanDisk ImageMate® Readers*
red dot Design Award Winners Exhibition / Germany SanDisk ImageMate® Readers*
   
2008
red dot Design Concept Winners Exhibition / Singapore

MX-Libris

Seoul Design Olympiad - Winners Exhibition / Seoul, Korea

Heart + Seoul*

2007
red dot Design Concept Winners Exhibition / Singapore

Habit Forming*

ICSID/IDSA World Design Congress: Connecting '07 / IDEA Award Winners Gallery, San Francisco, USA

Cascuz*

2006
red dot Design Concept Winners Exhibition / Singapore

Cascuz

2005
red dot Design Concept Winners Exhibition / Singapore

BrightWalk

2004
Timex 2154 Winning Projects Exhibition / New York City, USA

Elastime

Permanent collection of Timex Musem / Connecticut, USA

Elastime

2003
Proyecto Silicio / Medellin, Colombia

Licuefaction

Expoluz 4 and Divagaciones de la Retina - Museum Raúl Anguiano / Guadalajara, Mexico

Licuefaction

2002
Degree Show 2002 - Umeå Institute of Design / Umeå, Sweden

FUMU

Degree Show 2002 - Umeå Institute of Design at Volvo Showroom / Stockholm, Sweden

FUMU

   
**with AGENT
*with LUNAR


Lectures & Public Talks/


YEAR
PRESENTATION & EVENT

LOCATION

2011 Show & Tell presentation at Cut & Paste Mexico City 2011 Mexico City (Nov. 2011)
Keynote presentation at DesignAddict Conference at ITESM Campus San Luis Potosí San Luis Potosi (Oct. 2011)
Keynote presentation on 'Design & Sustainability' with David Trubridge at CIDI-UNAM Mexico City (Sep. 2011)
Keynote presentation at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru Lima, Peru (Sep. 2011)
Expert Group Meeting on Sustainable Urban Transport - United Nations DESA - Rio de Janeiro / Brazil Teleconference (May. 2011)
Course on Design Management at ITESM Campus Querétaro Querétaro, Mexico (Apr. 2011)
Course on Design Management at ITESM Campus Chihuahua Chihuahua, Mex. (Mar. 2011 )
Keynote presentation at 'Más Allá del Restirador' conference at ITESM Campus Chihuahua Chihuahua, Mex. (Mar. 2011 )
Lecture at Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico City (Mar. 2011)
Keynote presentation at 1er Festival Internacional de Diseño (FID) Costa Rica San Jose , Costa Rica (Mar. 2011)
Lecture at IAAC (Institute for Advanced Arquitecture of Catalonia) Barcelona, Spain (Feb. 2011)
     
2010
Keynote presentation at TEDx ITESM Mexico City (Nov. 2010)
Keynote presentation at 'Diseño Punto MX' conference at ITESM Campus Monterrey Monterrey, Mex. (Oct. 2010)
Keynote presentation at 'Diseño y Sustentabilidad' at Universidad del Valle de México
Mexico City (Sep. 2010)
Keynote presentation at 'Foro Internacional de Diseño Sustentable' Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
Mexico City (June 2010)
Keynote presentation at 'Congreso Diseño Que Gira por el Mundo' Universidad La Salle del Bajío León, Mexico (May 2010)
Course on Portfolio Creation at ITESM Campus Querétaro Querétaro, Mexico (Mar. 2010)
     
2009 Keynote presentation at 'Congreso Factor Clave 2009' at ITESM Campus Querétaro Querétaro, Mexico (Oct. 2009)
Keynote presentation at 'XV Congreso Internacional Anual SOMIM (Mexican Society of Mechanical Eng.) Cd. Obregón, Mexico (Sep. 2009)
Online lecture for School of Design, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Teleconference (Aug. 2009)
Course on Introduction to Eco-Design at Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro Querétaro, Mexico (May 2009)
   
2008
Lecture at University of California Berkeley, Haas MBA course (talk on Design for Sustainability)

Berkeley, USA (Nov. 2008)

Discussion panel 'The Future of Technology and Sustainable Design', West Coast Green Conference 2008 San Jose, USA (Sept. 2008)
Online lecture for School of Design, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Teleconference (Aug. 2008)
Keynote presentation at ITESM Campus Ciudad de Mexico Mexico City (March 2008)

2007
Presenter at PechaKucha Night - Autodesk University Congress

Las Vegas, USA (Dec. 2007)

Speaker at Metropolis Conference - Design Entrepreneurs: Rethinking Energy (ICFF) New York, USA (May 2007)
Keynote presentation at Universidad Autónoma de Auguascalientes

Aguascalientes, Mex. (April '07)

2006
Co-organizer and presenter at Pecha-Kucha San Francisco (2006-2009) San Francisco, USA
Keynote presentation at Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León

Monterrey, Mex. (March 2006)

2005
Keynote presentation at Universidad Iberoamericana

Mexico City (October 2005)

2004
Keynote presentation at Universidad La Salle del Bajío

León, Mexico (May 2004)

Keynote presentation at ITESM Campus Querétaro

Querétaro, Mexico (Feb. 2004)

2002
Keynote presentation at Cámara de Comercio de Guadalajara

Guadalajara, Mex. (Sept. 2002)

Keynote presentation at Universidad Del Valle de México Mexico City (August 2002)
Lecture at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México - CIDI

Mexico City (July 2002)



Juries/

YEAR
COMPETITION

LOCATION

2011
Juror at Premio Nacional de Diseño en Acero Inoxidable 2011
Mexico City, Mexico
Juror at 3 Concepts 1 Idea to share / HP & Autodesk Architectural Contest Barcelona, Spain
Juror at Cut & Paste 2011 Mexico City Mexico City, Mexico
     
2010
Juror at Sanofi-Aventis Medical Design Competition - Mexico City, Mexico
Mexico City, Mexico
     
2007 Juror at IDSA Student Merit Awards - Academy of Art University San Francisco, USA
     
2005 Invited Juror at BraunPrize Forum 2005 Kronberg, Germany
Juror at International Photoreal Furniture Competition (by ProE Tools, Design-Engine.com) Online
Juror at Premio Braun Mexico Mexico City, Mexico