Bike

Lifestyle

Outdoor

Snow

Streetwear

Surf

Travel

Design

Food

Industrial designer with  a minor in sustainable  design and planning Very  ambitious, quick learner  that loves solving new  problems. I love  street/urban culture and  being outdoors. As a  competitive road cyclist  and sailor, I also love  to ski, surf, windsurf  and mountain bike.

Worked with a cross category team doing trend research and market analysis. Distilling our findings to create a concept, development and design of color, material, and finish strategy for on-body product.

CMF Designer: On-Body Equipment

In this role I created cycling footwear from concept to reality. This was achieved with loose sketches, handmade models/prototypes, realistic renderings, precise technical orthographic drawings, etc. to create prototypes that synthesized market, trend, and athlete research. With the footwear team the design is then focused into a finalized solution that is manufacturable, hits costing targets, and gives an athlete/consumer types a measurable performance advantage.

Footwear Designer

In my industrial design role I researched, prepared concepts using ideation sketches, 3D models, and physical models for for a wide variety products; shoes, helmets, apparel, components, and accessories. In My graphic design role consists of creating graphic concepts and color palettes from research, managing, and developing production graphics for multiple Urban and Fitness bicycle families that account for over 100 individual color ways per model.   

Industrial Designer

Find out detailed information about Jon Takao,  in Santa Cruz, CA

Jon Takao: in Santa Cruz, CA

Jon Takao

Specialized Bicycle Components, Inc.

Specialized Bicycle Components, Inc.

Specialized Bicycle Components, Inc.

Western Washington University