LOUIS (KANDA) DRUM
Industrial Designer, Illustrator
Dedicated designer with high standards of perfection and precision. Good at translating designs into precise models. Excellent communicator who works hard with others to achieve success.
EDUCATION
Rochester Institute of Technology
Industrial Design BFA
2021-2025
Focusing on product design, user experience, modeling, illustrating, market research/trends, and physical workshops/prototyping. We are taught fundamentals of art and design and illustration and expand into other branches of design such as graphic design.
SOFTWARE EXPERIENCE
Adobe Dimension
Adobe Fresco
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe InDesign
Adobe Photoshop
Autodesk Fusion360
Autodesk Sketchbook
Keyshot
Nomad Sculpt
Prusa 3D Printing/Prusaslicer
WORK EXPERIENCE
2019 - Current
Freelance Illustrator
Kandablossom
-
Creating illustrated work for weddings, anniversaries, birthdays, and memorials.
-
Communicating, negotiating, and providing customer service to clients.
-
Quickly adapting illustrations and design changes to meet client requests.
-
Working with outsourced independent print technicians.
-
Managing orders and digital shopfront.
2022 - 2023
Postal Employee
RIT Print and Postal Hub
-
Organizing, receiving, and issuing parcels and letters to students.
-
In-person, email and phone customer service and troubleshooting.
2024 - Current
Maker Mentor
RIT SHED
-
Educating, monitoring, and assisting students
-
in workshop spaces.
-
Utilizing various shop tools including laser cutting, 3D printing, woodworking, CNC, etc.
-
(Current) Producing an art intillation for the Textiles and Electronics makerspace.