Bermúdez, Inma

Inma Bermúdez was born in Murcia in 1977. She studied at the School of Industrial Design of the University Cardenal Herrera CEU in Valencia as well as one year of practical studies at the School of Applied Sciences and Design of Pforzheim, Germany. She began her professional career in industrial design working for German design studios IDEA (www.idea‐taurus.de), BUSSE DESIGN (www.bussedesign.com) and PRODESIGN (www.prodesign-ulm.de). Every summer since 2002 Inma has also collaborated at the VITRA DESIGN MUSEUM and CENTRE OF GEORGES POMIPDOU workshops in SouthWest France (www.boisbuchet.org). These are workshops directed by world reknown artists, designers and architects. In addition to playing an active role in many of these workshops, during this time, she has taken on the roles of programme coordinator, public relations, as well as assistant to the designers Sigga Heimis (www.siggaheimis.com), Jaime Hayon (www.hayonstudio.com) and the multifaceted creative studio CuldeSac (www.culdesac.es). In 2006 she entered in contact with the well known Swedish brand IKEA. She formed part of the internal department of Design in Ă„lmhult, Sweden, for six months and since then has strengthened her affiliation with IKEA as a freelance designer working on a variety of products yearly. Once back in Spain, since 2007, she is part of the internal design department at the Valencian porcelain company LLADRĂ“ where she develops, along with the rest of the design team, pieces for the more classic artistic porcelain product line as well as for the innovative design of LLADRĂ“ ATELIER creating successful collections like “THE PARROTS PARTY” (2010) and “METRĂ“POLIS” (2011). From 2010 she has begun to develop products for FLY (www.fly.fr) in parallel with her work at LLADRĂ“ and IKEA. In 2001 she was awarded with the First Prize of Furniture Design of Andreu World by a professional jury as well as being awarded second place from the public jury. She has received special mentions in the furniture exposition C’DIM in Valencia, in the contest of “50 CARAMELOS CON PALO" and IMAGINEERING by Dupon. In 2008 the product ACERO DOOR STATION by RITTO, designed by Inma at the studio PRODESIGN, received the German design prize of DESIGNPLUS and was nominated for the prize DESIGNPREIS 2009.