Mehrafza Mirzazad Barijugh (
Oroumieh, 8 September 1985) is an Iranian
industrial designer, living in the
United States. She completed her studies in
industrial design
Industrial design is a process of design applied to physical Product (business), products that are to be manufactured by mass production. It is the creative act of determining and defining a product's form and features, which takes place in advan ...
in
Turkey, at
Middle East Technical University (METU).
In 2010, she became the first female designer from either
Iran or
Turkey to be presented with the
Red Dot Award: Design Concept Best of the Best prize for her ETU (Emergency Transporter Unit for Amputated Body Parts) design.
Biography
Mirzazad Barijugh was born in
Oroumieh,
Iran. She studied at the prestigious
National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents school during her middle and high school years. At the age of 18, she moved to
Turkey to study
industrial design
Industrial design is a process of design applied to physical Product (business), products that are to be manufactured by mass production. It is the creative act of determining and defining a product's form and features, which takes place in advan ...
at
Middle East Technical University (METU), in
Ankara.
During her studies at METU, her work emphasized the design of medical products. After graduating in 2009, she moved to
Istanbul, where she worked as a
freelance
''Freelance'' (sometimes spelled ''free-lance'' or ''free lance''), ''freelancer'', or ''freelance worker'', are terms commonly used for a person who is self-employed and not necessarily committed to a particular employer long-term. Freelance w ...
industrial designer. In addition to her freelance work, Mirzazad Barijugh continues to work on conceptual medical products. In 2012, she received a Design Turkey award for an accident site blood-testing device, a project she collaborated on with Turkish designers Efe Erinç Erdoğu and Rasim İspirgil. In 2013, she designed an insulin distribution system for
diabetes patients.
She relocated her offices to
Carrboro,
North Carolina, in 2013.
Awards
*'' Red Dot Award: Design Concept Best of the Best '' (2010)
*'' Design Turkey: Good Design Award'' (2010)
*'' Faces of Design: Talent Award '' (2010)
*'' İMMİB: Endüstriyel Tasarım Yarışmaları'' (2011)
*'' Design Turkey: Good Design Award'' (2012).
*'' Ignite: Diabetes Ideas Challenge Award'' (2013)
References
External links
Official Mehrafza Mirzazad Barijugh website
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1985 births
Middle East Technical University alumni
Living people