About

Vanesa Diyan Dimitrova is an Interior Designer & Manufacturing Specialist.

About Vanesa

She is a dedicated and hardworking individual with the ability to learn quickly, demonstrate self-initiative and a willingness to learn any skills necessary under different expectations. Also, she is reliable in achieving results, ensuring attention to detail and meeting objectives. She enjoys being part of a productive team while demonstrating strong leadership in various demanding situations.

She is interested in bringing efficiency, purpose, function and style by placing her design skills in the context of fast-evolving developments in construction, fabrication, assembly and automation.

Relevant Experience

  •  Interior Designer 

Design 121 Ltd | London, UK | December 2020 – present 

  • Proposing Interior Concept ideas and colour schemes as Moodboards

  • Proposing furnishings and Interior items and preparing the FF&E Sheets. 

  • Drawing 2D Technical Plans and Designing 3D Models.

  • Conducting Surveys and consulting with the clients.

 

  • Freelance Manufacturing Specialist and Designer

Remote   | March 2020 – present

I worked online on a variety of projects with clients from across the world (Portugal, Germany, England, USA, South Africa and the Netherlands).

  • Turned hand sketches into 3D Models, and prepared them for manufacturing using CNC Machine. 
  • Generated toolpaths on Fusion 360 for a metal detail and prepared illustrated manufacturing report for the machine operator.
  • Proposed efficient manufacturing techniques for furniture design, and offered optimised details for better fitting and looking outcome.
  • Designed parametric information models for exhibition in the USA.
  • Rationalised Ceramic Assemblies Thesis Project

Bartlett School of Architecture, London, UK  | 2019

The focus of this project is on the combination of two different manufacturing techniques: clay casting and the bending and deformation of sheet wood. The blending of ceramic tiles and bentwood elements creates new formal opportunities for free-form, ceramic-clad surfaces. These require rationalisation of complex surface geometry and negotiation between manufacturing affordances and design intent. The patterning and tessellation of the tiles, as well as their glazing and finishing, create dynamic and gradated spatial effects. The prototype demonstrates these effects and the formal complexity of this technique. 

  • Accomplished a rationalisation of a teardrop-shaped ceramic tile with acoustical functions by using Fusion 360.
  • Designed and fabricated a double-curved surface with a ceramic-clad system and analysed the constraints using Grasshopper.
  • Optimised the firing schedule by reducing it with ten hours and resulted in projecting a unique pattern on to the ceramic tiles.
  • Tested acoustic experiments in a real-time environment to estimate the material potential.
  • Simulated sound reflection rays on the surface in a digital environment using Packyderm Acoustic plug-in for Grasshopper.
  • Interviewer and Media Support Volunteer

EUGIC Conference, Here East,  London, UK | April 2019 

European Urban Green Infrastructure Conference (EUGIC) celebrates working with nature for climate-adapted, resilient, healthy cities in London. It is co-hosted by The Bartlett and Loughborough University at their neighbouring campuses at UCL at Here East in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

  • Recording key speakers’ comments and visions throughout the conference, both in photography and video interviews, putting the European speakers at their ease and posing questions that will feed into a wider content report.
  • Leading an Interview in the Bulgarian language. 

Certificate available upon request.

  • Interior Design Intern

INTERIORO Design Studio, Sofia, Bulgaria | June 2016 – September 2016 

  • Implemented new technical skills by learning how to draw 2D and 3D technical drawings in AutoCAD on a professional level.
  • Collaborated with production companies to meet deadlines on time and discuss design supplies.
  • Tailored and presented design proposals in the form of technical packages, visualisation renders in front of San Stefano Plaza team and single clients.

Technical Skills

Manufacturing skills

Education

Master of Architecture in Design for Manufacture

Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, UK

  • Adopted new forms of advanced design and engineering methodologies, including robotics, CNC Machines, and digital fabrication to refit the build and manufactured environment.
  • Expanded my knowledge in design, engineering, material behaviour, analogue and digital craft, and advanced systems operations.

Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Interior Design

Coventry University, Coventry, UK

  • Championed to effectively plan, manage and produce 2D and 3D materials to explain architectural and design outcomes.
  • Won a prize for the best physical model on my final major project
  • Learned to reflect on the strengths, weaknesses and values.
  • Designed and used effectively British Standards BS8888 on a listed building.