About Julianne

Through personal passion and professional choices and training Julianne Gauron has made assessing situations, researching, and designing solutions a way of life.  Industrial Design includes the making of objects, but also the overarching systems and services we experience daily.  In her professional work in Industrial Design, working in design research and strategy, she acts as a user advocate, gaining deep understanding of the user needs and challenges.

She attended the Rhode Island School of Design to earn her Masters degree in Industrial Design.  At RISD she further evolved her love of making and seeing with her hands, learning and thinking through making.  She also acted on the Graduate Student Governing body to improve student experience, curriculum and incoming awareness.

In addition to her graduate degree, Julianne has an undergraduate degree in Art History and Architecture from Bowdoin College. While at Bowdoin she raced for the Division 1 downhill Ski Team, an activity that kept her sane, just as surfing Rhode Island during grad school did the same.

In personal design undertakings she loves making anything that can be gifted, as she believes that the end user is always the reason for an object to exist, and the richer the connection the greater the outcome.  She also pursues photography and travel writing, in her spare time volunteering these services to organizations she admires.

Born in Boston but identifying strongly with her Irish roots, Julianne worked in England, Micronesia, India, and Ireland, as well as living in Italy as a student, and hitting various other esoteric but fantastic locales along the way.  Through travels and years living abroad Julianne honed her skills in, and fascination with, watching people in their unique lives, and a hunger to ask and learn about them.  To follow and explore, to see details and nuance, while growing an understanding of the bigger context and influences, and then to create positive change in the flow of daily life.

Designers and Artists I Admire

Douglas Borkman         http://www.douglasborkman.com/

Emily Rothschild           http://www.emilyrothschild.com/

Tom Weis                         http://www.tomweis.com/

Kate Blackwell                http://hellocanopy.com/

Amy Jean Porter            http://www.amyjeanporter.com/

Zeke Leonard                 http://zekeleonard.com/home.html

Brendan Ravenhill        http://brendanravenhill.com/

We Are                             http://www.helloweare.com/

Stephanie Ewens          http://stephanieewens.com/