Rafael Simoes Miranda is a Brazilian designer based in Milan

Milan

Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...

 since 2000 and a member of the ADI Associazione per il Disegno Industriale

Associazione per il Disegno Industriale

ADI is an association of about 1.100 designers, manufacturers, trade newspeople, schools and researchers on design based in Italy.-References:** A web page dedicated to lifestyle. Contains an online design museum....

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Prized with some of the most prestigious designs awards amongst with the Red Dot Design Award

Red dot design award

The Red Dot Design Award is an international product design prize awarded by the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen in Essen, Germany. There are prize categories for product design, design agencies, and design concepts. Since 1955, designers and producers can apply for the prizes with the winners...

, in 2009 Rafael open his own studio in Zona Tortona in Milan.

In earlier years Rafael worked for Hitachi

Hitachi

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 Europe responsible for the design of consumer electronic products, and collaboration with Giorgio Galli Design Lab for timepieces and jewels designs for brands like Timex

Timex Group

Timex Group B.V., or Timex Group, is a Dutch holding company headquartered in Hoofddorp, the Netherlands, and the corporate parent of several watchmaking companies around the globe including Timex Group USA, Inc., TMX Philippines, Inc., and Timex Group India Ltd...

, Versace

Versace

Gianni Versace S.p.A. , usually referred to as Versace, is an Italian fashion label founded by Gianni Versace in 1978.The first Versace boutique was opened in Milan's Via della Spiga in 1978, and its popularity was immediate. Today, Versace is one of the world's leading international fashion houses...

, Ferragamo and Valentino

Valentino SpA

Valentino SpA is a clothing company founded in 1959 by Valentino Garavani. Nowadays it is a part of Valentino Fashion Group. New creative directors Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli will take Alessandra Facchinetti's seat as creative designer...

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He obtained his graduate diploma at Istituto Europeo di Design

Istituto Europeo di Design

The Istituto Europeo di Design is a design school that attracts students from over 90 different countries to its one and three year/four undergraduate, masters courses and advanced training courses....

 and concluded his master studies in Industrial Design at Scuola Politecnica di Design.

External links

• Rafael Simoes Miranda
• ADI - Associazione per il Disegno Industriale http://www.adi-design.org/soci/profilo.asp?ID=3709

Awards and exhibitions

• International Contemporary Furniture Fair ICFF (2008)
• Salão Design Movelsul (2008)
• Casa Brasil (2007)
• Averati - A dream come true (2007)
• Salone Satellite (2007)
• Fuori Salone (2006)
• Stockholm furniture fair (2006)
• Red Dot Design Award (2005)
• Salone Satellite (2005)
• Targa Bonetto SMAU
  SMAU
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  (2004)