# Ellen Field

> Industrial Designer and Product Developer - Softgoods

Location: Alameda, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ellenfield

I'm Ellen, a product designer and developer focusing on material integration and discovery. I excel at finding unconventional solutions and I take delight in the unexpected!

## Work Experience
### Industrial Designer @ Design Committee
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
Research and development, physical prototyping, design

### Freelance Industrial Designer/Developer @ Unknown
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States
Physical prototyping, material sourcing and research, design of experiments

### Product Developer/Industrial Designer @ Bilio
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | Berkeley, California, United States

### Product Developer/Associate Industrial Designer @ Bilio
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Berkeley, California, United States
Design, research, development, DFM, and prototyping for a variety of client projects as well as developing and testing new and unusual materials.

### Junior Designer @ studioFAR
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States
- Designing and developing bags, backpacks, and outdoor gear
- Creating tech packs and manufacturing specs
- Trend and CMF research and development

### Freelance Designer @ Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | New York City Metropolitan Area
- Created payment card graphic design for new OMNY payment system according to Pentagram's graphic standards manual and brand guidelines
- Communicated design decisions and process with a team
- Researched manufacturing to prove feasibility of design

### Industrial Designer @ Used Rubber USA
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Graphic design
- Material Research
Worked with designers Mandana MacPherson and Gigi Obrecht to submit the project to the 2019 IMPACT awards, to which we were awarded a grant of $25,000 to continue and complete the project. 
More info at rubberimpact.net and mandanamacpherson.com

### Classroom Assistant @ California College of the Arts
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Oakland, CA
- Worked with professor Mandana Macpherson to teach an introductory industrial design course
- Provided critique and instruction to high school students
- Provided Software and woodshop demonstrations

### Set Designer @ KCAT TV 15
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | United States
- Modelmaking for set design
- Material specification, planning, and sourcing for construction
- Design communication within a team


## Education
### Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA in Industrial and Product Design
California College of the Arts

### Industrial and Product Design
Academy of Art University

### University of Washington


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ellen-field
- Website: http://www.ellen.design

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Last updated: 2026-04-08