Robert's daily responsibilities include attracting new clients and working closely with them, conducting front-end user research, and creating innovative products and design solutions.
WORCESTER, MA, September 23, 2024 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Robert P. Irwin has been selected for inclusion in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Robert is an accomplished industrial designer, owner, and director of industrial design at irwindesigned LLC, an independently owned and operated design service company in Denver, CO since 2007. His distinguished career in this sector has garnered him a reputation for excellence in sustainably-aligned product development, design strategy, and research. Robert's daily responsibilities include attracting new clients and working closely with them, conducting front-end user research, and creating innovative products and design solutions. He notably applies various skills, from conducting customer interviews to CAD modeling, 3D printing prototypes, and testing new concepts, while collaborating with various engineering and marketing teams.
Having established irwindesigned LLC with a colleague, Robert, his partner, and his team have worked with various organizations to develop environmentally friendly products, including calculator metrics for companies to assess the environmental impact of their redesigned products. Additionally, irwindesigned has designed hands-on experiential exhibits for children and residential homes with net zero energy performance. His architectural experience also includes designing and building net-zero tiny homes that collect rainwater and utilize solar panels.
Robert's diverse experience working with clients such as Amazon, Kimberly Clark, Baskin Robbins (Korea), Hoover (UK), PepsiCo, Hershey's, and Huggies, underscores his ability to apply design thinking skills across various categories. This versatility has allowed him to develop new products that meet user needs effectively while maintaining high standards of innovation and sustainability.
Robert also founded and began hosting "Designing In The Wild," a Boston-based podcast in 2021. Additionally, he founded Learn Industrial Design, an online on-demand industrial design-focused platform dedicated to continuing education for aspiring designers and design professionals.
Robert served as a senior industrial design engineer at Origyn LLC in Boston from 2022 to 2023, designing the Hoover HFX vacuum cleaner and other floor cleaning technologies for Hoover (UK). Before that, he led hardware development and design as a senior industrial designer at Amazon in the Greater Boston area between 2018 and 2021, where he helped build the company's smart Amazon Dash carts. From 2014 to 2018, Robert was the senior industrial design director at Skyscraper Inc. in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he helped Fortune 500 CPG organizations create their future product pipelines.
Earlier in his career, Robert was the owner and principal industrial designer at Phi Logic in Denver from 2010 to 2016. He previously co-founded a start-up business, Fountainhead, where he worked as a furniture designer and fabricator between 2014 and 2015. Robert also co-founded re:thought in Denver, serving as a sustainability consultant and materials specialist from 2005 to 2010. Additionally, he was an exhibit designer at the Children's Museum of Denver between 2007 and 2010.
In preparation for his career, Robert received a Bachelor of Arts in industrial design from The Art Institute of Colorado in 2006, with an emphasis on sustainability. His capstone project was a biomimetic horizontal axis wind turbine. After graduating, he interned at the Rocky Mountain Institute in Boulder, Colorado, in 2005. Robert furthered his expertise with several professional certifications, such as a design thinking certificate through Stanford University online in 2014 and C2C certified standards in sustainability studies from Cradle to Cradle in 2017.
Robert is an Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) member. He is also actively involved in civic-minded organizations, serving as a volunteer juror for the IDSA Idea Competition in Dearborn, Michigan, volunteering at food events that support community initiatives, and supporting the Goodwill workforce energy program for youth.
Robert has achieved notable milestones throughout his career, including contributing as the sustainability consultant for the Five Points Revitalization Vision Planning, which was featured in the Denver Post in 2011, and securing U.S. patents for Item-Identifying Carts and the Wheeled Cart in 2021. His small-scale horizontal axis wind turbine was also recognized as Best Consumer Product of The Year at the Colorado Inventor Showcase by DaVinci Institute in 2008. Moreover, Robert was highlighted in "Will Work For Play" by 5280 Magazine in 2009 and was featured on episode 14 of one of HGTV's shows in 2015, which showcased "Rob's Eco-Living Tiny House."
Looking ahead, Robert aims to focus on sustainability by employing better product development strategies across teams to create more environmentally circular products. He looks forward to continuing to be the tip of the spear for the widespread adoption of life cycle thinking in production processes in order to minimize waste and create circular systems to replace the current linear one.
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