Our next guest is Professor Stephen Melamed, an industrial designer and design educator at the University of Illinois at Chicago; he’s Clinical Professor & Founding Chair of the Industrial Design program at UIC. With over four decades of design experience in consulting, manufacturing, corporate, and not-for-profit sectors., and consulting, Stephen engages with and interweaves multiple disciplines to create a culture of innovation. An apprentice to the Bauhaus designer, artist and author Werner Graeff and his son, the architect and designer Roberto Graeff, Stephen also studied with R. Buckminster Fuller for World Game. Stephen was honored as the 2011 IDSA Midwest Educator of the Year and selected for New City Magazine’s annual Design 50: Who Shapes Chicago. In 2016, he was inducted into the IDSA Academy of Fellows. He’s been named as the inventor/co-inventor on 60 design and utility patents. Thank you Professor Melamed for being on our platform to talk about design. Thanks for tuning in, be on the lookout for our next podcast! Send us a DM or email at hello@advdes.org to provide us with your thoughts and comments on our dialogue with designers!