C. Sven Johnson

Current

• Columnist at Futurismic
• Owner at reBang

Past

• Contractor at Institute for the Future
• Writer/Moderator at Core77
• Contractor at The Electric Sheep Company

• Senior Industrial Designer at Applica Consumer Products
• Freelance Designer (Self-employed)
• Industrial Designer at Rubbermaid, Inc
• Design Consultant at Babcock & Schmid Design Assoc. (Self-employed)
• U.S. Naval Officer at U.S. Navy

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Education

• Cleveland Institute of Art
• University of Notre Dame

Connections

134 connections

Industry

Design

Websites

• My Blog
• My Portfolio

C. Sven Johnson’s Summary

Over 15 years combined management, engineering, industrial design and 3D simulation development experience.

C. Sven Johnson’s Experience

• Columnist

  Futurismic

  (Online Media industry)

  April 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)

  Author of the monthly design-centric column "Future Imperfect" for Futurismic ( http://futurismic.com ) which is primarily geared toward emerging technologies in fields such as rapid manufacturing and augmented reality.

• Owner

  reBang

  (Design industry)

  January 2003 — Present (6 years 7 months)

  Concept to CAD industrial design and 3D simulation/virtual world development services.

• Contractor

  Institute for the Future

  (Think Tanks industry)

  September 2008 — November 2008 (3 months)

  Contracted to operate as an "Assistant Game Master"; i.e. to provide administrative management of and contribute expertise in relevant topic areas for the Superstruct "serious" game/crowdsourcing effort ( http://www.superstructgame.org ).
  
  Superstruct is/was the first massively multi-player foresight game launched by the Institute for the Future. The effort officially ran for six weeks and now continues unofficially.

• Writer/Moderator

  Core77

  (Design industry)

  2004 — 2006 (2 years)

  Contributed written entries to Core77's design-related news blog from 2005 until 2006.
  
  Moderated the Core77 design forum from 2004 until 2005, including the organization and management of the first forum-based design competition.

• Contractor

  The Electric Sheep Company

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  May 2006 — December 2006 (8 months)

  Originally contracted to provide art direction and virtual world user experience/marketing advice for the development of MTV's first virtual world project, Virtual Laguna Beach, I primarily assumed the traditional role of 3D Technical Director; both managing subcontractors and contributing as designer/3D modeler/texture artist. Duties included everything from generating concept art for approval by the show's producers to coordinating with other content development groups as well as maintaining a localized version of the virtual world application for content validation and final preparation for deployment. The project was awarded an Emmy in 2008.

• Senior Industrial Designer

  Applica Consumer Products

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; apn; Consumer Goods industry)

  September 1999 — July 2002 (2 years 11 months)

  Senior designer

• Freelance Designer

  Self-employed

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Design industry)

  May 1999 — September 1999 (5 months)

• Industrial Designer

  Rubbermaid, Inc

  (Public Company; Consumer Goods industry)

  September 1996 — May 1999 (2 years 9 months)

  Staff designer

• Design Consultant

  Babcock & Schmid Design Assoc. (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; 1-10 employees; Design industry)

  May 1994 — August 1996 (2 years 4 months)

  On-site industrial design contractor

• U.S. Naval Officer

  U.S. Navy

  (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Military industry)

  May 1985 — May 1989 (4 years 1 month)

C. Sven Johnson’s Education

• Cleveland Institute of Art

  BFA , Industrial Design , 1989 — 1994

• University of Notre Dame

  B.Sc. , Aerospace Engineering , 1981 — 1985

Additional Information

C. Sven Johnson’s Websites:

• My Blog
• My Portfolio

C. Sven Johnson’s Honors:

"It turns out that the increasing detail of 3D objects in virtual environments makes it possible to think of them not simply as game objects, but as digital prototypes -- and 3D printers are the tool of choice for turning the prototypes into real objects. WorldChanging ally C. Sven Johnson is at the forefront of this movement."- J. Cascio, Senior Contributing Editor, WorldChanging.com; Feb 2006

"deepest thinker of 3D virtual/meatspace stuff so far"- M. Frumin, Technical Director, Eyebeam R&D OpenLab; Jan 2006

"one of the best and brightest out there"- Jerry Paffendorf, Futurist, Electric Sheep Company; Aug 2006

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Assistant Game Master for Superstruct, APF's "Most Important Futures Work of 2008" (2008)

Art Director for Emmy Award Winning MTV Virtual World Project (2006)

Individual Achievement Award - Applica Consumer Products Inc. (2000)

U.S. Navy Achievement Medal (1987) - received for managing the multi-million dollar overhaul and upgrade of a U.S. Navy warship.