033 - Alex Lobos

IDSA IDC SPECIAL: We had the pleasure of speaking with RIT Industrial Design Professor Alex Lobos, who was in town for IDSA’s International Design Conference. Alex started his career in graphic design, but was always a maker at heart, and eventually moved to industrial design. Born and raised in Guatemala, he qualified as a Fulbright Scholar, which led him to attend the University of Notre Dame for graduate school. Alex has interned at Whirlpool and worked at General Electric after graduate school. After his time at GE, he worked as Visiting Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he met Hector Silva, who he inspired to also become an educator. After UIUC, Alex found his calling at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), where he is now a Full time Professor of Industrial Design, Graduate Director, and Fellow-In-Resident for Autodesk. Alex is a one-of-a-kind educator, and we hope our listeners will get an opportunity to meet him at one of our events! Thank you @lobosdesign for being amazing and inspiring so many! Thanks for tuning in--be on the lookout for our next podcast! Send us a DM or email at [email protected] to provide us with your thoughts and comments on our dialogue with designers!