With over 19 years of professional product design experience, Paul Osimo is a seasoned senior product designer specializing in consumer products for mass-market retailers. His journey in the world of design has encompassed roles at renowned companies including Hasbro, Mattel and Schylling, where he honed his craft and earned accolades, including the prestigious International Design Awards in which his design earned first place in the Sports/Toys/Games category in 2014. He has had multiple fishing lure designs showcased at ICAST, the largest trade show in the sport fishing industry.
Paul has found a niche in instructional sketching for medical journal articles, assisting teams from Mayo Clinic, King’s College London and University of Edinburgh in creating medical cartoons. He has found use for his creative problem-solving skills while captaining and crewing professionally on recreational and commercial fishing vessels, most recently consulting and working with New England Fishmongers on the development of their experimental commercial fishing platform.
Throughout his career, Paul has focused heavily on refining his skills in visual communication, and he is a practitioner of process and appropriate use of resources both in his profession and in his teaching.
Courses
Fall 2024 Courses
ID 20ST-14 - SPECIAL TOPIC DESIGN STUDIO
LevelUndergraduate
UnitIndustrial Design
Subject Industrial Design
Period Fall 2024
Credits 3
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
ID 20ST-14
SPECIAL TOPIC DESIGN STUDIO
LevelUndergraduate
UnitIndustrial Design
Subject Industrial Design
PeriodFall 2024
Credits3
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: F | 8:00 AM - 1:00 PMInstructor(s): Paul OsimoLocation(s): Industrial Design Building, Room 502Enrolled / Capacity: 15Status: Closed
SECTION DESCRIPTION
In this class you will learn the specialized and nuanced vernacular of time-tested, highly descriptive, and straightforward explanatory illustrations. These techniques excel at conveying complex ideas, quickly troubleshooting issues and allow for visual discourse across language barriers and career fields. This course will cover the exploration and explanation of a variety of engaging sketch techniques, useful tricks of the trade and insight on how to gauge and facilitate the level of detail and information necessary for a variety of real-world industry situations.
During this course the student will be imparted with an essential cross-curricular skillset that can be used effectively across the vast and varied 21st century career landscape. Students with a basic grasp of drawing fundamentals are preferred for this course. We will engage in regular group critiques of student work, and will focus on the quality of execution, the ease in which information is delivered, and experimenting on new and unique descriptive sketch techniques.
Those taking this class are expected strive toward distilling the art of storytelling into a purely visual format.
Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Preference is given to Industrial Design Students.
Major Requirement | BFA Industrial Design
ID 2451-01 - METAL I
LevelUndergraduate
UnitIndustrial Design
Subject Industrial Design
Period Fall 2024
Credits 3
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
ID 2451-01
METAL I
LevelUndergraduate
UnitIndustrial Design
Subject Industrial Design
PeriodFall 2024
Credits3
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: M | 8:00 AM - 1:00 PMInstructor(s): Paul OsimoLocation(s): Industrial Design Building, Room 200Enrolled / Capacity: 15Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This course gives the student a hands-on opportunity to develop design skills through the interaction with industrial materials that have strictly defined properties. Experimenting with these materials and the processes by which they are manipulated and formed promotes innovative thinking, problem solving and idea development. Students will achieve a more precise, professional and sensitive approach to design while broadening their technical skill base.
Enrollment is limited to Sophomore Industrial Design Students.
Major Requirement | BFA Industrial Design
Spring 2025 Courses
ID 2451-03 - METAL I
LevelUndergraduate
UnitIndustrial Design
Subject Industrial Design
Period Spring 2025
Credits 3
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
ID 2451-03
METAL I
LevelUndergraduate
UnitIndustrial Design
Subject Industrial Design
PeriodSpring 2025
Credits3
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2025-02-13 to 2025-05-23
Times: F | 8:00 AM - 1:00 PMInstructor(s): Paul OsimoLocation(s): Industrial Design Building, Room 200Enrolled / Capacity: 15Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This course gives the student a hands-on opportunity to develop design skills through the interaction with industrial materials that have strictly defined properties. Experimenting with these materials and the processes by which they are manipulated and formed promotes innovative thinking, problem solving and idea development. Students will achieve a more precise, professional and sensitive approach to design while broadening their technical skill base.
Enrollment is limited to Sophomore Industrial Design Students.
Major Requirement | BFA Industrial Design
ID 245G-01 - ID GRADUATE SHOP ORIENTATION
LevelGraduate
UnitIndustrial Design
Subject Industrial Design
Period Spring 2025
Credits 3
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
ID 245G-01
ID GRADUATE SHOP ORIENTATION
LevelGraduate
UnitIndustrial Design
Subject Industrial Design
PeriodSpring 2025
Credits3
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2025-02-13 to 2025-05-23
Times: M | 8:00 AM - 1:00 PMInstructor(s): Asher Rodriquez Dunn, Paul OsimoLocation(s): Industrial Design Building, Room 301-1Enrolled / Capacity: 16Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This course will acclimate new graduate students to the shop environment of the Industrial Design Department. The Metal, Wood and Model Shops are invaluable resources, clarifying pragmatic aspects of the design process from general feasibility of manufacturing to the challenges of translating concepts into tangible objects. This course covers excerpted information from both undergraduate courses Wood I and Metals I and emphasizes safety in the utilization of shop facilities.
Preference is given to first-year Graduate Industrial Design Students.
