Chris Whittall- Duncan Anderson Lecture September 29th

Chris Whittall- Whipsaw

Thursday, September 29th, 7:00 - 9:30pm

PRESENTS:

Working as an Industrial Designer 

Chris will share his 17 year history in the field of Industrial Design and tell how he went from Art Student to Industrial Designer. He will also talk about life at Whipsaw, and how they approach their award winning design work.  Lastly, he will share tips on how to get a design job, and identify what things Whipsaw looks for when hiring Industrial Designers.

Chris Whittall is an Industrial Designer and Program Manager at Whipsaw, in San Jose, California, where he has worked since 2008. He has designed many successful products for clients such as Alcatel, Cisco Systems, Dell, Digital Persona, Hewlett Packard, Logitech, Sun Microsystems and SGI. Chris has over 35 design patents and several design awards, including a recent Red Dot for his work on the Cisco umi, and a recent Popular Mechanics Editor’s Choice award for his design for Phone Halo. Prior to joining Whipsaw, Chris was a designer at Hewlett Packard, Montgomery Pfeifer, and GVO. He earned his BFA in Industrial Design from California College of the Arts in 1994