Brad Ascalon
Brad Ascalon (born March 7, 1977 ) is an American industrial designer .
Life
Ascalon grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia . He immersed himself in the world of art and design at an early age. His grandfather Maurice Ascalon (1913–2003), a Hungarian-born sculptor and industrial designer, founded the art and design company "Ascalon Studios" together with his father, the Israeli-born artist David Ascalon (born 1945). It produces site-specific works of art and furnishings for places of worship and public spaces. With this in mind, Brad learned to work with a variety of materials and artistic media, including metal sculpture, stained glass, and mosaics.
Ascalon's first artistic works were created in musical form. He played guitar and piano from an early age and eventually became a songwriter and composer. In the latter half of the 1990s, while composing and performing music, Ascalon was pursuing a liberal arts degree from Rutgers University .
Ascalon did research in the field of visual art, where he appropriated abstract painting. He experiments with his musical experience by combining music with painting, especially modern jazz and classical music.
After graduating from Rutgers University, Ascalon moved to Manhattan. While he continued to draw, he worked in the advertising and music industries . Following his desire to think more abstractly, he changed his course and studied industrial design at New York's Pratt Institute to obtain a master 's degree. During his studies, Ascalon worked as an intern for numerous prominent designers, including Karim Rashid .
Today Ascalon's focus is on furniture design, but he's also engaged in consumer goods and packaging design. Its design tends to ignore the traditional shape of objects. When designing, Ascalon sees the function of an object regardless of its traditional form and constructs it from scratch. In 2005, the international London designer journal Wallpaper * included Ascalon in its annual list of the ten best young designers in the world.
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| SURNAME | Ascalon, Brad |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American industrial designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 7, 1977 |