Profile

Anthony Guido is a practicing industrial designer and design educator focused on transformative products, services and systems. Currently on academic sabbatical doing graduate work in sustainable business leadership, he will return to teaching at UArts in fall 2012.

Prof. Guido is a founding partner and co-director of grow-design, a Sustainable to Restorative™ industrial design firm with offices in Philadelphia and Los Angeles. This bi-coastal industrial design studio focuses on sustainable design innovations via design research and development of new materials, manufacturing and business strategies. Recent clients include Dansko Footwear, SimpleHuman Domestic Housewares, Mattel, Clean Agency, i2i Innovations, Elemental Herbs Cosmetics, Rittenhouse Sports Specialties, Emilcott Environmental Health + Safety, and the Philadelphia Urban Green Partnership.

Grow-design sponsors green business networking in Philadelphia and Los Angeles through the founding and operation of local chapters of international ecological groups: greendrinks.org and o2 Ecological Design Network. Prof. Guido is also an executive board member of the Lemon Ridge Community Garden where design is being used to transform the Philadelphia urban environment through urban green space and education.

As a tenured associate professor of Industrial Design at the University of the Arts, he has served as department chair from 1995 to 2002 and 2008 to 2011 in addition to his continuous full-time teaching. He served as interim director of the Masters of Industrial Design department during the spring 2005 as well. He has taught across all levels and courses of undergraduate and graduate industrial design and has served on several University administration committees in his 16 years with the University of the Arts.

From 1991 to 2003, he and partner Jeannie Gerth operated Parallel Product and Development, San Francisco/Philadelphia, providing industrial design consulting for a variety of telecommunications, computing and consumer goods industries in the San Francisco Bay Area / Silicon Valley area and later in Philadelphia as well. Prior to this, Prof. Guido was a founding partner of an industrial design studio from 1987 to 1991 -- also located in San Francisco -- working with a similar list of high tech computer and consumer products companies such as Apple Computer, Okamura Steel Furniture, Optilink Telecommunications and others.

Prof. Guido was a founding faculty member of the California College of Arts Industrial Design department where he taught from 1987 to 1991. One of the five original members to establish the first U.S. frogdesign office, Guido served as a designer and design director from 1983-1987 working in Europe, Japan, and the US for their International clients.

A graduate of the Ohio State University Department of Industrial Design, he moved to Stuttgart, Germany, to begin a dual career in design education and industrial design practice. He has taught and lectured at Industrial Design departments of California College of Arts/San Francisco, Art Center/Los Angeles, Parsons-NYC, the Ohio State University/Columbus, Ohio, and the Akademie der Bildernen Kunst in Stuttgart, Germany.

His design work has been published in several design journals worldwide as the recipient of national and international awards for design excellence. In the Fall of 2003, grow-design was granted the Innovation Award for the Cradle to Cradle Eco-Design Challenge for E-Commerce Shipping Packaging and Logistics sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in partnership with McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry (MBDC).