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Joel Escalona is a Mexican Industrial Designer born in 1986. He trained as an industrial designer in Mexico City. In 2006 he began working co-directing Komodo Render, a studio devoted to photo-realistic visualizations of industrial design and architecture projects mostly. A year later he began working as a Creative Director at Xilem, a Mexican company committed to furniture, interior and installation design. In Xilem Joel oversaw the development of interiors for houses and shops, public areas and restaurants as well as participating at the technical development of furniture production process and corporate design managing.

In 2007 he was contact by the Grupo HeWi, a furniture company; Joel was asked to be Head Designer for the design production department of the company.

Joel Escalona has participated and won several design competitions, as the Volvo For Life Design Awards, were he got the first place on free category with the design of alarm clock 12:38; And the third place on Recreational Furniture Category with Caracool playground, on the “2° Concurso Nacional de Diseño de Mobiliario en Madera Dura Americana" (Second National Furniture Contest with American Hardwood) sponsored by American Hardwood Export Council also in 2007.

Since 2008 Joel Escalona started his industrial designs practices were he designs from tableware to electronics for worldwide companies and he is always seeking for new projects with companies that know and understand the importance of design.

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