Mark Dziersk, FIDSA

Mark Dziersk, FIDSA is the managing director for Lunar Design’s Chicago office. Lunar is one of the world’s top design firms with five offices in three countries, specializing in the design and engineering of products and services, along with the UX and branding strategies. A widely known design thinking and management consultant, his expertise includes innovation strategy, branding, industrial design, packaging and public speaking on the topics of design, sustainability, and creativity Previously, he was the senior vice president of industrial design at both Brandimage – DesGrippes & Laga and Herbst Lazar Bell Inc., two of the nation’s top design and innovation consultancies. Dziersk has received numerous awards for design excellence including a Gold IDEA award for instrumentation and concept explorations, several Silver and Bronze IDEAs and “Best of Category” and “Design Distinction” awards from ID magazine’s Annual Design Review. He holds over 100 US product design and engineering patents and his writing have been featured in Innovation, ID magazine, Time magazine and The Wall Street Journal. He holds a bachelor’s in fine arts in industrial design from the University of Michigan.