first name(s): (Tudor) Cătălin :: family name: Urcan
gender: man :: nationality / citizenship: Romanian
birth date: 21 September 1961 (Virgo)
birthplace: Gligoreşti : Cluj : România

I live and work in Cluj-Napoca : România

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SKILLS

design
as you can see in the WORKS section of the site

languages I know, beside Romanian
English – conversational
French, German – basic

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

At present I offer my services as freelance designer
in the following domains:

• web site - structure, layout and graphic design
• logo and main corporate visual identity elements
• illustration

when designing for web, I work in cooperation with
Soft Design which does the technical implementation
of my work

2007
started the partnership with Soft Design srl

2006
registered as freelance designer

2005
sabbatical year

1997 - 2004
industrial/product designer and illustrator
in the Scheiber Design studio - Kufstein : Austria

1990 - 1997
teaching assistant/instructor and then lecturer in the
Design cathedra of the Academy of Visual Arts
"Ioan Andreescu" in Cluj-Napoca

1988 - 1989
industrial designer in the Company for Laboratory Tools
and Devices - I.A.U.C.- in Cluj-Napoca

1985 – 1988
product (toys) designer in one of the biggest plastic goods
producers in Romania, the "Viitorul" factory - now Plastor S.A.
in Oradea

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EDUCATION

1992 – 1993
research year (study of several software programs for design)
within the design cathedra of the Academy of Visual Arts
"Ioan Andreescu" in Cluj-Napoca

1981 - 1985
design section of the Institute of Fine Arts "Ioan Andreescu"
now, the University of Art and Design in Cluj-Napoca

1976 - 1980
High School of Fine Arts in Cluj-Napoca

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INTERESTS

sacred and its manifestations
in the world cultures, especially in architecture,
related to dwellings and to the concept of home

harmonic proportions
the Golden Ratio and its applications
the so called Sacred Geometry

time, ciclicity, permanence

books  ::  see on Shelfari
the books that stayed
with me.

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