Stephen Melamed

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Stephen Melamed

Stephen Melamed (born March 1, 1951 in New York ) is an American industrial designer and associate professor for design, interdisciplinary product policy and development at the University of Illinois at Chicago .

Academic career

Stephen Melamed is a member of the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA). He began his studies in theoretical physics at Boston University and graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago with a master's degree in industrial design. He studied with the designer and author Werner Graeff . The Foundation National Endowment for the Arts & Humanities made him a Design Fellowship and he received a grant from the R. Buckminster Fuller Foundation . He wrote By Design: Museum Environments for All and was a speaker at the First International Interdisciplinary Design Conference at the UN Center in New York.

Professional activities

Tres Design Group

Stephen Melamed is business partner and leader of the design and consulting company Tres Design Group in Chicago. It was founded 30 years ago with his business partner, the Parisian designer Luc Heiligenstein. He is also a certified LSP ( Lego Serious Play ) moderator . His design and consulting cabinet in Chicago deals with the most varied areas of product design, from office equipment to medical devices. He collaborates with other international brands and companies.

Teaching and research activities

In addition to his practice and innovation-oriented work as a designer, Stephen Melamed teaches as a private lecturer at the University of Illinois Chicago.

He is one of the three professors who designed and implemented the IPD course (Interdisciplinary Product Development), which was published by the specialist press and others. a. by BusinessWeek (August 2007), named one of the top 60 college programs in the world in the field. He was part of the group of professors and lecturers who founded the UIC Innovation Center in collaboration with Motorola . He is co-founder of the non-profit AIGA association, Design For Democracy (D4D), on whose board he served for a long time. Stephen Melamed is the author of numerous publications and essays and appears at conferences around the world on a wide variety of topics with an emphasis on innovation, research, sustainable design and interdisciplinary product development.

Design prizes and awards

  • Red Dot Award
  • Benelux Event Award
  • Good design
  • IDEA silver medal
  • 2010: Design Intelligence named him among the top 25 " Design Educators " in the USA.
  • 2011: Midwest Educator of the Year by the Industrial Designers Society of America
  • 2016: Stephen Melamed's work was recognized in 2016 when he was named a Fellow of the IDSA Academy at the IDSA International Conference 2016.

The Academy awards this title to its members who have rendered special and recognized services to society and the design profession. The archive of his personal life's work and his company Tres Group Design, which he co-founded with the Frenchman Luc Heiligenstein, has been included in the Special Collections of the University Library in Chicago, Illinois.

The works and inventions of Tres Design Group have been exhibited in the following museums:

Tres Design Group patents since 1998

Stephen Melamed has co-invented over 60 patents since 1984. The exact profile of the item is available on the website of the United States Patent and Trademark Office

Private

He and his older brother were raised in the traditional Jewish faith. His father from Russia, who passed away today, and his mother from Random in Poland are both Holocaust survivors . After separating during the deportation, they met by chance in Stuttgart and decided to emigrate to the USA to start a new life there. Stephen Melamed's mother, at the age of 93, took part in the eyewitness interviews of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation , founded by Steven Spielberg in 1994 .

Stephen Melamed married Meeyoung Chung, a senior graphic designer at the prestigious Chicago studio \ lab, on December 14, 1985. He now lives in Chicago and has two sons, Maximilian and Aaron. Since 2001 he has been sponsoring one of the Lost Boys of Sudan, Justin Golick Dobo.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See http://www.idsa.org/stephen-melamed-idsa
  2. ↑ See profile about Melamed ( http://www.idsa.org/stephen-melamed-idsa )
  3. ^ “Grad student project to be presented at United Nations” , Patricia Sanchez, in Chicago Daily News newspaper, 1982
  4. ↑ See the official website of the University of Illinois Chicago
  5. ↑ You can see him with his colleagues and his students on the IPD site http://www.ipd.uic.edu/IPD/overview.php
  6. ↑ Pages 54–55 Archived copy ( Memento of the original from February 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / nasad.arts-accredit.org
  7. ↑ IPD site = http://www.ipd.uic.edu/IPD/overview.php
  8. ↑ Team of the center at http://innov-vm-1.cc.uic.edu/wordpress/?page_id=1059
  9. ↑ See online flyer in PDF, pages 54–55 Archived copy ( memento of the original dated February 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / nasad.arts-accredit.org
  10. ↑ Official website www.aiga.org/design-for-democracy/
  11. ↑ DesignIntelligence, 11th annual, report 225, volume 15, numéro 6, page 60, Nov-Dec 2009
  12. ↑ See article on Archived Copy ( Memento of the original from November 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. and all sides of the UIC, IDSA. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aa.uic.edu
  13. ^ Shaping Lives . IDSA. 2016.
  14. ^ Academy of Fellows ( en ) Industrial Designers Society of America. 2016. Retrieved November 21, 2016.
  15. ↑ Carlos Sadovi: Improving everyday life through design ( s ) The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. September 27, 2016. Retrieved November 21, 2016.
  16. ↑ cf. Melamed profile on the School of Art and Design site
  17. ↑ http://patft.uspto.gov/ Enter the patent number
  18. ↑ No. in catalog 37646 ( http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/bialystok/bial_pages/bial_shoah.html )
personal data
SURNAME Melamed, Stephen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American designer
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH New York , USA