Hi! I’m Farshad — industrial designer, maker and technologist in Milan.
I run products end-to-end: from brief and ideation through prototyping to first-batch production. By day I’m Industrial Designer & Innovation Specialist at Eco Step Italia, an R&D and manufacturing partner where international clients outsource difficult product development. Since 2022 I’ve carried 24+ products from concept to production, helped secure 18+ tenders, and designed outdoor IoT systems and urban infrastructure with assemblies beyond 100 components — programming the CNC that cuts my own aluminium profiles and refining 1:1 sheet-metal prototypes with the operators who build them.
FS kynd is my independent practice: design research around calm, tactile, emotionally durable technology. Current projects include Wuddy (a physical focus companion), NAS000 (an upcycled, privacy-first home server) and EranNameh (UX contributor to an iOS/Android cultural initiative with a 50k+ community).
I trained at Politecnico di Milano (M.Sc. Integrated Product Design, 110/110) — my thesis NAVITILE was a wearable haptic navigation system I built down to its custom PCB — and before that at the Art University of Isfahan.
What makes my work different is the overlap: design craft (sketching, surfacing, CMF, rendering), manufacturing reality (injection and rotational moulding, sheet metal, DFM) and embedded technology (Arduino, ESP32, Raspberry Pi, KiCad). I don’t just draw products — I wire them, print them, and stand next to the machine that makes them.
Milestones
- 2025 — FS kynd founded; Wuddy & NAS000 in daily use
- 2024 — ENHANCE Crystal Light lamp in production & US retail (Accessory Power)
- 2022 — M.Sc. 110/110, Politecnico di Milano; NAVITILE at Polifactory
- 2020 — A’Design Award Winner (PinTheTime) · Hack The Crisis Winner (Canary Biometrix)
- 2019 — Vodafone 5G Challenge Finalist (WAW — Wellness at Work)
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