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About

Achille Biteau is a French Designer based in San Francisco, currently working at Ammunition.

For the past 10+ years Achille has been designing consumer products and experiences from Fortune 500 companies to early-stage startups. A maker, doer, and creative lead who thrives for well-crafted designs made accessible to the largest number of people, Achille is constantly tailoring his process to turn challenging problems into unique solutions. Over the years he has been fortunate to work with talented multi-disciplinary teams to bring over 10 products to market, leading to a dozen of patents or design awards. This is a summary of his work, all in one scroll.

In addition to his career in Industrial Design, Achille spent two decades outside his home country between Angola, Germany, India, and the United States. He is the co-founder of two music and entertainment labels and a contemporary art enthusiast and advocate who supports local organizations.

Useful links LinkedIn / Ammunition Group / Electron Libre music / SECA at SFMOMA

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Project list

DANVAS SERIES G | Role: Design Director (Ideation, Concept, Development through all manufacturing stages)
BEATS FLEX | Role: Design Director (Ideation, Concept, Development through all manufacturing stages)
BEATS EP | Role: Lead Industrial Designer (Ideation, Concept, Development through all manufacturing stages)
POWERBEATS 2 and 3 | Role: Lead Industrial Designer (Ideation, Concept, Development through all manufacturing stages)
BEATS ACCESSORIES (CASES, CABLES, REMOTES) | Role: Industrial Designer
OBI SF1 | Role: Lead Industrial Designer (Analysis, Ideation, Concept, Development through all manufacturing stages)
OBI MV1 | Role: Lead Industrial Designer (Analysis, Ideation, Concept, Development through all manufacturing stages)
OBI ACCESSORIES ( CABLES, CHARGER, PROTECTIVE CASES, SIM EJECTOR TOOL) | Role: Lead Industrial Designer
NASCENT OBJECTS | Role: Lead Industrial Designer for Doppler, Designer of a few of the modules and Packaging direction (Ideation, Concept, Development)
SMARTISAN T1 | Role: Industrial Designer (Ideation, Concept work, Developed by Xuan Shu)
LARKLIFE | Role: Industrial Designer (Ideation, Concept work, Development)
IC! BERLIN | Role: Industrial Designer (Concept work, Prototyping, Pre-Development)
IN.DE (OXYLANE GROUP) | Internal project for the Indian market (Strategy, Analysis, Research, Concepts)

…and more to talk about (not shown in this work preview).

Credits for some of the photography: Apple, Beats by Dre, Wes Sumner,

Awards & Clients

Past work for: Beats By Dre (acq. by Apple), Obi Worldphone, Square, Nascent (acq. by Facebook), Smartisan, LG, RealD, Williams & Sonoma, Lark, IC! Berlin, Philips, Danone, and more.

2023 | Core 77 Design Award. Notable, Emerging Technologies - Danvas Series G
2023 | Fast Company Innovation by Design. Finalist - Danvas Series G
2021 | Core 77 Design Award. Notable, Consumer Technology - Beats Flex
2018 | Most innovative company in Design by FastCompany (Ammunition)
2016 | Cooper Hewitt National Design Award (Ammunition)
2016 | IDEA Gold - Nascent Objects
2016 | IDEA Considered Design - Nascent Objects
2016 | Fast Company Innovation by Design. Finalist - Nascent Objects
2016 | IDEA Finalist - OBI SF1
2015 | IDEA Bronze - Beats PowerBeats Wireless
2014 | Spark Silver - Beats PowerBeats
2014 | IF award Gold - Smartisan T1
2014 | Spark Silver - Smartisan T1
2012 | Edison Gold - Lark
2012 | IDEA Finalist - Lark
2011 | IDEA Finalist - Student work
2010 | SILMO award - IC! Berlin