EP 66: Designing Products of the Future | Allan Chochinov

Allan Chochinov is an educator, writer, speaker, and advocate for the power and capacity of design. He is the Founding Chair of the MFA in Products of Design graduate program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and a partner of Core77, the design network serving a global community of designers and design enthusiasts since 1995. Allan has moderated and led workshops and symposia at venues from the Aspen Design Conference to the Rockefeller Center at Bellagio, and has been invited to speak on design at organizations from frog Design and SYPartners to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The New York Times, and the National AIGA. A frequent lecturer and critic, he has worked with students at schools including MIT, Yale School of Management, Columbia School of Business, RMIT, IIT, and Carnegie Mellon. Prior to SVA and Core77, his work in product design focused on the medical, surgical, and diagnostic fields (early work focused on HIV/AIDS, and later projects included work for Johnson & Johnson, Oral-B, FedEx, and Herman Miller). He has been named on numerous design and utility patents, and has received awards from The Art Directors Club, The One Club, I.D. Magazine, and Communication Arts. He has also served on the boards of the National AIGA organization, Designers Accord, Design Ignites Change, and NYCxDESIGN.
Episode Mentions:
Tanaka Kapec Design Group http://www.wedesigntosimplify.com/
Change Everything You Hate About Meetings With This One Single Word
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Show website link: https://mailchi.mp/designlabpod/allanchochinov

This episode is sponsored by:
Fortune Brainstorm Design, to be held May 23-24 in Brooklyn is a curated experience for passionate and successful design and design-minded professionals. Join Fortune and be inspired by diverse examples of design excellence, explore how design thinking and practice can be challenged and advanced, meet and network with high-level peers, and leave with concrete ideas and partnerships to drive transformation within your organization. Listeners of Design Lab with Bon Ku can use code “designlab” for a 20% discount on registration! 
For more information or to register go to FortuneBrainstormDesign.com.

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Production by Robert Pugliese
Cover Design by Eden Lew
Theme song by Emmanuel Houston

Allan Chochinov is an educator, writer, speaker, and advocate for the power and capacity of design. He is the Founding Chair of the MFA in Products of Design graduate program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and a partner of Core77, the design network serving a global community of designers and design enthusiasts since 1995. Allan has moderated and led workshops and symposia at venues from the Aspen Design Conference to the Rockefeller Center at Bellagio, and has been invited to speak on design at organizations from frog Design and SYPartners to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The New York Times, and the National AIGA. A frequent lecturer and critic, he has worked with students at schools including MIT, Yale School of Management, Columbia School of Business, RMIT, IIT, and Carnegie Mellon. Prior to SVA and Core77, his work in product design focused on the medical, surgical, and diagnostic fields (early work focused on HIV/AIDS, and later projects included work for Johnson & Johnson, Oral-B, FedEx, and Herman Miller). He has been named on numerous design and utility patents, and has received awards from The Art Directors Club, The One Club, I.D. Magazine, and Communication Arts. He has also served on the boards of the National AIGA organization, Designers Accord, Design Ignites Change, and NYCxDESIGN.

Episode Mentions:

Tanaka Kapec Design Group http://www.wedesigntosimplify.com/

Change Everything You Hate About Meetings With This One Single Word

Follow Allan on Twitter | Instagram | LinkedIn

Show website link: https://mailchi.mp/designlabpod/allanchochinov

This episode is sponsored by:

Fortune Brainstorm Design, to be held May 23-24 in Brooklyn is a curated experience for passionate and successful design and design-minded professionals. Join Fortune and be inspired by diverse examples of design excellence, explore how design thinking and practice can be challenged and advanced, meet and network with high-level peers, and leave with concrete ideas and partnerships to drive transformation within your organization. Listeners of Design Lab with Bon Ku can use code “designlab” for a 20% discount on registration! 

For more information or to register go to FortuneBrainstormDesign.com.

More episode sources & links

Sign-up for Design Lab Podcast’s Newsletter

Newsletter Archive

Follow @DesignLabPod on Twitter Instagram and LinkedIn

Follow @BonKu on Twitter and Instagram

Check out the Health Design Lab

Production by Robert Pugliese

Cover Design by Eden Lew

Theme song by Emmanuel Houston