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2012.01.02
Alberto Villarreal was included in the list of most influential Mexican Entrepreneurs in 2011 by Milenio Press Group: Read the full interview here (Spanish). |
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2011.11.15
Alberto Villarreal was interviewed about Design & Ssustainability for the Kaleidoscope Project by Engage by Design, along with other creative leaders. Check the videos here. |
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2011.11.13
Alberto Villarreal participated as a juror at the Architectural Contest 3 Concepts 1 Idea to Share, organized by HP & Autodesk. Winning projects were exhibited at the Vallery Gallery in Barcelona in November 2011.
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Click here to see the video where Alberto talks about the winner project. |
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2011.10.13
Alberto Villarreal participates at the 'Fábrica Mexicana' exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City; with CTRUS (by AGENT) and MX-Libris projects. |
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2011.09.07
Alberto Villarreal will be judging the Cut & Paste 2011 Edition in Mexico City in November 19th. |
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2011.09.02
Alberto Villarreal gave a Keynote Presentation at Peru's PUCP University, School of Industrial Design. |
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2011.05.25
Alberto Villarreal was interviewed for the Update Show at Glitz TV. The program was transmited in Latin America and the USA. |
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2011.05.20
Alberto Villarreal spoke at the United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Sustainable Urban Transport in Rio de Janeiro on May 19th, as part of the events in preparation for the Rio+20 conference. |
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2011.04.08
Alberto Villarreal responds an Alumni Interview at Umea Institute of Design, a decade after graduation. |
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2011.02.21
Alberto Villarreal was invited professor at Spain's Institute for Advanced Arquitecture of Catalonia, for the workshop 'The Shape of Information', together with Architect Michel Rojkind and Urbiotica. |
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2010.11.19
Alberto Villarreal talked at the TEDx ITESM conference in Mexico City on November 17th.
Click here to see the video (in Spanish). |
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2010.10.12
Alberto Villarreal exhibited at the 2nd Ibero-American Design Biennial in Madrid , from November 2010 to February 2011. |
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2010.10.01
Alberto Villarreal will be invited professor at the DeTao Masters Academy in China, starting summer 2011. |
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2010.08.27
Sanofi-Aventis invites Alberto Villarreal to be Juror at their first Industrial Design Competition in Mexico, as the only non-academic designer at the Jury.
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2010.07.02
Co-creation blog DemocraTHINGS features a video interview with Alberto Villarreal. |
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2010.04.30
Red dot online features an interview with Alberto Villarreal about AGENT. |
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2010.03.15
Alberto Villarreal partners with architect Michel Rojkind to start: AGENT
a Strategic Intelligence Embassy with a disruptive approach to the product development process. |
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2009.12.22
'Unit-T' project featured at Dwell magazine on an interview to Emily Pilloton, founder of Project H Design. |
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2009.10.20
Popular Science magazine
features an online article on 'MX-Libris'. |
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2009.09.23
IndigoMedia features an article-interview with Alberto Villarreal for their Piensa section. |
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2009.08.12
'Silla Guarda' featured on NotCot. |
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2009.08.06
Co-founded by Alberto Villarreal, the non-profit group 'Razon Social' (focused on social design programs) is born as an evolution of the Project H Design Mexico City Chapter. |
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2009.08.01
'MX-Lirbis' selected to be featured on the launching list of Original Projects. |
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2009.06.06
Red dot online features an interview with Alberto Villarreal.
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2009.06.05
'MX-Lirbis' and 'SanDisk ImageMate® Readers' projects included in the exhibition:
"Exposicion Cambia: Pequenos Actos, Grandes Efectos" at UNAM's Architecture School lobby, Mexico City. Openning ceremony on June 5th, celebrating the World Environment Day. |
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2009.04.15
Metropolis Magazine features an article on 'MX-Lirbis' concept: Green with Envy, by Suzanne LaBarre. |
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2009.03.12
'SanDisk ImageMate® Readers' case study featured on Sustainable Minds blog, showcasing some of the decisions made during the design process in order to reduce its environmental impact. |
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2009.03.06
Sarcastic concept 'YOU-SB' inundates the blog sphere creating polarized reactions and thus accomplishing its mission. Featured in Yanko Design and many other blogs. |
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2008.12.23
'Toco Madera' and 'Cascuz' projects are featured on DESIGN AND DESIGN website, and will be included on the 2008 year book. |
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2008.12.18
Environmental blog Ecofriend published an article about 'MX-Libris'. |
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2008.11.20
Alberto Villarreal presented at the Pecha Kucha Night San Francisco Vol. 29 at the Autodesk Gallery and celebrated 3 years of co-organization of the local chapter. |
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2008.11.19
Alberto Villarreal and Travis Lee of LUNAR were invited to give a lecture on Design for Sustainability to the
Haas MBA students at University of California Berkeley. |
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2008.10.10
'Heart + Seoul' project receives Honorable Mention at the 'Seoul Sustainable City Life of the Future' competition and it is exhibited at the Seoul Design Olympiad (Oct. 10-30, 2008).
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2008.09.26
Alberto Villarreal participated at the discussion panel The Future of Technology and Sustainable Design sponsored by Autodesk at the 2008 West Coast Green Conference in San Jose, California.
Conference keynote speakers included Chris Jordan, Hunter Lovins, David Suzuki and Nobel Prize Laureate Al Gore.
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2008.07.21
LUNAR publishes The Designer's Field Guide for Sustainability for the design community. Alberto Villarreal is co-author of the document. |
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2007.11.27
Alberto Villarreal participated as presenter at the Pecha Kucha event on the opening night of
Autodesk University 2007 in Las Vegas. |
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2007.10.17
'Cascuz' exhibited with the IDEA Award 2007 winners at ICSID/IDSA World Design Congress: Connecting '07,
Masonic Auditorium in San Francisco. |
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2007.10.15
Alberto Villarreal joined the Ecolect team as a blog editor. |
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2007.08.27
'Toco Madera' Ring featured on MoCo Loco. |
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2007.08.22
Metropolis Magazine online feature:
Shaping the Future: Alberto Villarreal speaks @ ICFF. |
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2007.07.20
'Cascuz' received an IDSA/BusinessWeek International Design Excellence Award, 2007 and it is featured at Business Week IDEA 2007 winners. |
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2007.04.26
'BrightWalk' project was presented by Alberto Villarreal at ICFF in New York as part of the:
Metropolis Conference / Design Entrepreneurs: Rethinking Energy. |
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2007.04.26
'BrightWalk' project awarded as runner up at the Metropolis Magazine Next Generation 2007 competition. |
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2007.02.01
Icon-O-Cast, Lunar's Podcast, features an episode on "Cool concepts & Creativity" with an interview to me about Cascuz. |
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2006.11.07
Barcelona-based school of advertisement creativity "TENEMOS UN PLAN", interviewed me for their Barrio section.
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2006.01.04
Alberto Villarreal is co-organizer of PechaKucha-SF, the new event for the Design Community of the Bay Area (San Francisco), which is part of the PechaKucha global phenomenon. |
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2005.08.02
Alberto Villarreal was an invited juror at the finals of the Braun Prize International, at BraunPrize Forum 2005 in Kronberg, Germany. |
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2005.01.12
Zanicdesign V. 3 was nominated to "Site Of The Year 2004" (SOTY) at Netdiver |
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2004.10.04
Alberto Villarreal joined the ID team of Lunar Design in San Francisco. |
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2004.09.30
'Elastime' is exhibited as part of the permanent collection of the TIMEXPO museum in Connecticut, USA.
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2004.09.28
'Elastime' project awarded with Honorable Mention at the 'TIMEX 2154 : The Future of Time' international competition. |
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2003.10.24
'Liquefaction' project exhibited atthe Expoluz 4, event by Colectivo Etzprime in Guadalajara, Mexico. |
