I’m Farshad. Nice to see you!
Simple, kind, human-centered technology.
Industrial Designer · Design Engineer · Maker
I design products that have to work as objects and as hardware. Form, proportion and CMF on one side, mechanical construction, tooling and DFM on the other, and I stay on the project through both. FS Kynd is my independent practice, where the same thinking runs without a client brief.
24
products into series production
18
tenders secured
8
years designing, four in manufacturing
110/110
M.Sc. Politecnico di Milano
Selected Work
From city infrastructure to desk companions. Everything here was built, not just rendered.
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Smart Waste Systems
Mechanized and IoT waste containers for European cities. Assemblies past 100 components, sheet metal through to HDPE rotational molding.
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Wuddy 3
Desktop focus companion. Form, CMF and enclosure taken to a working prototype, with the physical input benchmarked against a reference tactile feel.
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CORE001
Self-hosted server built from upcycled hardware, with an ambient status display that reports four device states through light alone.
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ENHANCE Crystal Light
LED desk lamp for Accessory Power. Faceted diffusion and a two-part tooling split cut for cost. In mass production and US retail.
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Navitile
Wearable haptic wayfinding. A 12-motor tactile display on a custom KiCad PCB, tested across 21 functions at 85% correct readings, 125 g.
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NALE
Sanitization system for circular fashion. Three products and an app that extend garment life and cut overwashing.
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PinTheTime
Analog planner clock in felt and wood. You pin the task at the hour you will do it. A’Design Award, 2020.
About
Industrial design craft (sketching, surfacing, CMF, rendering), manufacturing reality (injection, rotational molding, sheet metal, DFM), and embedded technology (Arduino, ESP32, Raspberry Pi, KiCad). Those three usually sit in three different people. Working across all of them is what lets me carry a product from sketch to released tooling without a handover.
By day I am Design Innovation Specialist at Eco Step Italia in Morbegno, an R&D and manufacturing partner that international clients use for the products they cannot develop in house. Twenty-four have gone into series production so far. One is now a published patent application, EP4497703A1, a sealed rotating-tank container that keeps the tank mouth inside the lid throughout discharge so it cannot leak; I produced the technical drawings, figures and renderings for the filing.
By night, FS Kynd. Calm interaction, tactile experience, objects meant to outlast their novelty. Eight years since graduating, four of them inside an R&D and manufacturing studio.
SolidWorks · Rhino · Fusion 360 · Blender · KeyShot · Figma · Arduino · ESP32 · Raspberry Pi · KiCad · FDM/SLA · sheet metal · CNC
FS Kynd, the practice
Independent design research. Where I set the brief.
Calm by default
Devices that stay quiet until they have something worth saying. CORE001 reports four states with light and no screen.
Concept to object
Every project goes to a working prototype. Enclosures printed, boards laid out in KiCad, firmware written and tested.
Made to keep
Emotionally durable objects. Repairable, and still pleasant to touch once the novelty has worn off.
Bye! Hope to hear from you soon.
For projects and roles, in Milan or the Netherlands.