Creative leader, product designer, and professor passionate about product development, story-telling, problem solving, and the human experience. Has held key roles in building and managing teams large and small, with a natural ability to mentor, motivate and inspire. Experienced in establishing brand identity through product design, introducing scalable business opportunities, executing multi-channel projects that transform trends and brand strategies into impactful product and customer experiences. A strategic collaborator with an artist’s heart, with both corporate and academic experience, I have a dynamic and unique professional history and an equally diverse set of skills that are grounded in design and innovation.  I am currently the Senior Director of Design: Hardgoods at Crate & Barrel.

Clients : Anthropologie, Adult Swim, Free People, Friendship Skateboards, Gerald Gulotta, Kohls, Matter Design, MIT School of Architecture, VCCP (London/Berlin), Playtime (Paris), Zoobe (Berlin), Pictoplasma (Berlin), Hickies (NYC), Bed Bath & Beyond, Macy’s, Ralph Lauren, PacSun

 

He is available for motivational lectures, creative workshops, private commissions.

  • Design Concept & Strategy

  • Product, Furniture, & Toy Design

  • Concept Art & Design, Character Design

  • Experiential & Space Design

  • Drawing / Form / Material / Experimental Design Workshops

  • Motivational Lectures


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C.V.

b. 1981

BID Industrial Design / Pratt Institute / 2003

MS Design Research / Drexel University / 2019

 

Teaching History:

Assistant Teaching Professor - Drexel University - Westphal School of Media Arts & Design / Product Design / Sept. 2015- June 2019 / Toy Design, Furniture Design, Form Studio, Experimental Material Studio, History of Industrial Design, Introductory Courses

Pratt Institute / Visiting Instructor / Industrial Design /  Drawing & 3D Design/ May 2006-May 2012

New Jersey Institute of Technology / Adjunct Instructor / Drawing & Toy Design / Sept. 2007-Dec. 2011

 

Workshops:

MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology / "Captivating Character" Workshop in Form, Character, & Spirit / Graduate Architecture - Three Sections / Sept-Oct 2018 & 2019

Pictoplasma Berlin /  3D Character Fabric Workshop / 100 participants / Berlin April 2012

 

 

Solo Shows:

"Lullaby"  /  Trinity Center for Urban Life / Philadelphia, PA / May 2019

"Daysleeping/Sleepwalking" / LMNL Gallery / Philadelphia, PA / 2016

"Hypnagogia” / Brooklyn’s Wayfarers / Brooklyn, NY / 2014

“So Hush You Little Ones” / Ra / Antwerp, Belgium / 2010

“It May Be Contagious” / Shelburne Museum / Vermont / curator: Kory Rogers / 2008

 

Group Shows:

(IN) Action Figures / Clutter Gallery / Beacon, NY / 2019

(IN) Action Figures / Clutter Gallery / Beacon, NY / 2018

Flatliners / Flat Color Gallery / Seattle, WA / 2015

White Monsters / Everyday Moonday Gallery / Seoul, Korea / 2014

Beasticon II / Mark Miller Gallery / NY, NY / curators: Nelson & Zito / 2014

Pictoplasma Portrait Gallery/ KAUFHAUS JANDORF / Berlin, Germany / Museum for Contemporary Art MARCO / Monterrey, Mexico /2014

Common Threads / FOE Gallery / North Hampton, MA / 2014

Curious Beasts / Clutter Gallery  / Beacon, NY / 2014

Beasticon / Mark Miller Gallery  / NY, NY / curators: Nelson & Zito / 2013

Altered Mindscapes/ Clutter Gallery  / Beacon, NY / 2013

(IN) Action Figures / Clutter Gallery / Beacon, NY / 2013

Nathan Jureviscious Presents “ScaryGirl”  Toy Tokyo / NY, NY / 2012

Pictoplasma Post Digital Monsters / Berlin, Germany / 2012

Pictoplasma Post Digital Monsters / La Gaite Lyrique / Paris, France / 2011

Pictoplasma & Cappellini Present : w/Genevieve Gauckler / Cappellini NYC / 2011

Playtime NYC/ NYC 2011

Pratt Institute / Deans Gallery: w/Natalie Lanese / Brooklyn NY / 2009

Nouveaux Monstres (Exit Festival) : Maison des Arts de Créteil / Creteil, France / Maubeuge, France / 2009

Society of Contemporary Craft : w/ Eva Funderburgh / Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania / 2008

Hidden Depth / Subtext Gallery / San Diego / 2007

Plush week : Gallery 1988 / Los Angeles / 2007

Brooklyn Designs : Dumbo / Brooklyn, NY / 2007

Plush You : Schmancy / Seattle, Washington / 2006

Living Spaces : Supreme Trading / Brooklyn, NY / 2006

Haute Green : Brooklyn, NY / 2006

Block Party : 267 State Street / Brooklyn, NY / 2006

Plush Week : Gallery 1988 / Los Angeles, California / 2006

In Plush We Trust : Rotofugi / Chicago, Illinois / 2005

 

Lectures & Panels:

“A Ride Through My Imagin-Anus”  Pictoplasma Berlin 2012 :  Speakers included Gary Baseman, Nathan Jurevicius, Joel Trussell, Julia Pott, Raymond Lemstra, Femke Hiemstra, Florentijn Hofman, Mark Gmehling, Grant Orchard, Andy Rementer, Sauerkids & others. 45 min lecture / q & a

“Longoland: Bringin’ the Fun Since 1981″ Private Lecture for the Staff at VCCP Berlin / 2012

“Welcome To My Imagin-Anus”  Pictoplasma NYC 2011 @Parsons :  Speakers included Gary Taxali, Tim Biskup, Joel Trussell, Ben & Julia, Raymond Lemstra, Mark Jenkins, Geneviève Gauckler, Jeremyville, Allyson Mellberg Taylor, BeatBots and Jon Burgerman. 45 min lecture / q & a

“Turning Characters into Toys II” Moderated by I Heart Guts at San Diego Comic Con 2012 w/ Shawnimals, Nitin Bhargava (Kid Robot), Kris Schantz (Happy Worker), Phil Barbato, Karen Brazell (Life with Tigers)

“Turning Characters into Toys” Moderated by I Heart Guts at NY Comic Con 2011 w/ Shawnimals, Nitin Bhargava (Kid Robot), Kris Schantz (Happy Worker), Phil Barbato, Karen Brazell (Life with Tigers)

“{Net}Working: Making the Most of Your {net} Work” Pratt Institute’s 125th 2011

“Breaking In” Brooklyn Designs 2008 Brooklyn, NY / A discussion with successful Pratt Alumni including Sam Cabot Cochran, Erika Doering, Liz Kinnmark,  and Sergio Silva

 

Published:

The Cannibal's Cookbook: Mining Myths of Cyclopean Constructions : MatterDesign Studio, September, 2017

“Naughty Fluff : A Tale From Longoland” Pidgin Magazine #9 Princeton School of Architecture (Fall 2010) p.16-25

Press:

Surface, Milk (France), Bonbek (France), Umag (Germany), Hi-Fructose, Flaunt, Metropolis, Interior Design,  Staf (Spain)

 

Interview w/”WeHeart”


Interview w/We Make Money Not Art