Product Development & Industrial Design Expert
Ted is an industrial designer with a wide range of experience from creating hand-crafted guitars to designing for overseas textile manufacture. Driven largely by an insatiable curiosity around materials and process, Ted strives to design objects that solve tangible problems and bring beauty to people’s homes. He shares his knowledge and enthusiasm for design and entrepreneurship with dozens of students every year as a professor at The University of Illinois at Chicago. When Ted isn't teaching or designing you’ll probably find him cooking over a fire, baking bread, or catching waves in Lake Michigan.