Nicolas Denhez is an Art Director and lead industrial designer at Dell in Austin TX, where he envisions tomorrow’s digital devices and convergence solutions that are both human and beautiful. Denhez leads design efforts involving consumer design language, technology development, CMF, cross-functional collaboration, and digital media/3D process. Prior to joining the Dell design team in 2007, Denhez was a senior industrial designer at Samsung’s Wireless Design Lab in Los Angeles. As project lead in the Strategic Design team, he excecuted design language and product strategies, innovating around emerging technologies, and conceptualizing products ranging from mobile phones and accessories to home network devices. Previously, Denhez held the position of design leader at Lunar Design in San Francisco, developing products with clients such as Hewlett-Packard, Oral-B, Sony, Dell, and Palm. Parisian born, Denhez, completed his Advanced Program in Product Design at Institut Superieur de Design in France and received his B.S. in Industrial Design from Art Center College of Design in Switzerland.
Denhez is the principal of Miam.Miam, a design studio that set out to create innovative, unique consumer products for eating, playing and entertaining that would inspire and amuse. The Miam.Miam company, a division of United Brands in San Francisco, has successfully introduced a line of playful and innovative dishware and other culinary utensils into select stores around the country. Denhez is also a founding member of the avante-garde design collective, Design Raw in San Francisco, which educates the public on design issues through installations that are fun and informative.
Denhez has received numerous awards from IDEA/BusinessWeek, ID Magazine, Chicago Athenaeum Good Design and IF Industrie Hanover, and his work has been featured at Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York MOMA, Chicago Athenaeum Museum, San Francisco Design Museum, San Jose Museum of Art and Pasadena Museum of California Art. His designs have been featured in books and magazines, such as the New York Times, Surface, Dwell, Intramuros, ID Magazine, Core77, Form, Car Styling, Annual Design Book, and Design Report.