2024 Open Colloquium: Josh Owen

Josh Owen
Friday, October 4
9:15–11:00A
Room 1100
Architecture + Design Studios
845 West Harrison Street, Chicago
Free and open to the public.

Josh Owen is a renowned industrial designer, educator, and author. He is the president of Josh Owen LLC, and is the Director of the Vignelli Center for Design Studies at The Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT).

Owen and his studio have developed products for a host of companies worldwide, including Areaware, Casamania, Heller, IBM, Kikkerland, Kontextur, Loll Designs, Nambé and Umbra. Owen’s projects are also featured in the permanent collections of the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Denver Art Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Chicago Athenaeum, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Design Museum Brussels, the Taiwan Design Museum and others.

Owen’s teaching career began in 1990 at Philadelphia University. He also taught product design courses in the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2010, Owen joined the Industrial Design program at The Rochester Institute of Technology, where he eventually became the Distinguished Professor and Director of the Vignelli Center for Design Studies in 2020.

Owen has won eight Chicago Athenaeum Good Design Awards, the International Design Award, and has received honorable mentions for the ID Annual Design Review and the Red Dot Design Award. He is the author of the books “Big Ideas / Small Packages” and “Lenses for Design”.

Learn more about Josh Owen in his interview with Designculture: www.designculture.it/interview/josh-owen.html