About
I grew up in Isfahan, a city where even a doorway is made to slow you down — blue tiles, a bridge of thirty-three arches, tea poured with care. I think that is where I learned that the things we make can hold a small ceremony.
I have been making ever since I first held a piece of clay as a child and felt it change shape in my hands. When I'm designing, the rest falls away — time, place, almost myself — and only the thing taking shape remains. Creating is the centre of my world, and the truest picture of who I am.
Today I live in Germany. I still make all of it — objects, screens and paintings — because to me they are one practice in different materials.
When I step away from the desk, I still live in a world that speaks in art — music, film, books, drawing, writing short stories, nature, meditation and chess.
Curriculum vitae
Maryam (Mira) Alsadat Mirian
Trained in art, practised in objects, now designing for screens.
Profile
Product and industrial designer with several years of professional experience across concept development, CMF (colour, material, finish) and production-ready detailing — including the Red Dot-winning “Elegant” dishwasher. Now expanding into interaction design through an M.A. at Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences, alongside a Google UX Design Professional Certificate and IBM Enterprise Design Thinking training.
Experience
- Product Designer
ZINDAST Studio, Isfahan2024 – 2025 - Product designer in a studio team led by the head designer. Worked on the aesthetic and functional design of product lines through to production handoff, and produced hand drawings and 3D models for client presentations.
- Product Designer
Snowa (Entekhab Electronic), Isfahan2021 – 2024 - Developed strategic product concepts and visual storytelling for home appliances, including the “Elegant” dishwasher — Red Dot Award: Design Concept, 2021. Sketching, 3D modelling and presentation design; user-centred and accessible concept development; close work with product and engineering teams.
- Design Intern
ZINDAST Studio, Isfahan2019 – 2020
Education
- M.A. Design and Interaction
Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences, Germany2025 – 2027 - In progress.
- B.A. Industrial Design
Art University of Isfahan, Iran2014 – 2019
Awards & certificates
- Red Dot Award: Design Concept2021
- “Elegant” dishwasher, Snowa.
- LOOP Design Award2022
- Inlinear.
- Google UX Design Professional Certificate2024
- Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner2024
- IBM.
Publications & exhibitions
- AIC Congress, Buenos Aires2019
- Paper: “Colours of clothing as a factor influencing the colourscape of cities” — AIC 2019, programme.
- Cinema Gallery, Isfahan2019
- Group exhibition, watercolour painting — Butterfly Children.
- MAXXI Museum, Rome2018
- Global Futures Lab — Feeling Human.
- 1/9unosunove Gallery, Rome2018
- Group exhibition — “Souvenirs from the Future”.
Languages
- Persian
- Native
- English
- C1 (IELTS 8.0)
- German
- A2, studying B1
- Korean
- A2