About

He studied at the Sverdlovsk Architectural Institute with a degree in industrial design, during his studies he completed an internship at the studio of the world-famous designer Luigi Colani, where he participated in work on orders from such companies as Adidas, Ferrari, Yves Saint Laurent;. Since 1994, he has worked at Citroën, and since 2000, he has been a senior designer at Toyota's European Design Center in Nice. Since February 2005, he has been an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts. Since 2007, working in Russia, he developed the official coloring and corporate identity elements of the new Sukhoi Superjet 100 passenger aircraft of Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company, together with RSC Energia he created a concept model of the returned manned spacecraft Rus. Today, Vladimir Pirozhkov is the director of the Engineering Center for High-complexity Prototyping "Kinetics" at NUST MISIS, he received participants of the youth forum "Shaping the Future Together" on August 25, 2020 at his Center and held a two-hour lecture presentation of his achievements and developments. The Kinetics Engineering Center is a universal modern high—tech platform that allows you to generate, create, calculate and build complex multi-industry industrial projects in digital and analog formats based on orders from the leaders of the domestic engineering industry.

Website of the engineering center - https://ir.misis.ru/university/mediaroom/smi/2017-02/4516/