Igor
Silva

About

I'm an industrial designer with 11 years of experience taking products from concept to mass production. My practice is built around an end-to-end process — brief, development, tooling, manufacturing, and delivery — with deep specialist expertise in rotational moulding across a wide range of industries.

Design doesn't stop at concepts. It ends with people using the product. Everything in between — prototyping, tooling, supplier coordination, production handover — is part of the work, and I've done all of it. I carry projects from first sketch to the factory floor, and where I join mid-project, I bring the same end-to-end thinking to whatever stage comes next.

I've built design departments from the ground up — hiring and coaching teams, expanding capability across multi-process studios, and taking on business development functions when the work demanded it. Across the studios I've run and the clients I've served, the outcomes have been profitable and consistently exceeded forecasts.

I also teach Design for the Circular Economy at Western Sydney University, using real projects I've led as case studies. It keeps me connected to emerging designers and sharpens how I explain the things that are hardest to explain.