We are delighted to be joined by the Industrial Designer Stephen Burks at NCBDS39! 

Stephen has won the Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt National Design Award in Product Design and he is the only industrial designer to be awarded the prestigious Loeb Fellowship at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Independently and through association with various non-profits, he has worked as a product development consultant in close collaboration with artisans and craftspeople in over ten countries on six continents.

Stephen and his Brooklyn-based studio have been commissioned by many of the world’s leading design-driven brands to develop collections that engage hand production as a strategy for innovation including Cappellini, Dedon, MASS Design Group, Missoni, & Roche Bobois. His work has been exhibited internationally, including the Studio Museum in Harlem, the High Museum of Art, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. While in Louisiana, Stephen will be initiating collaboration with our Indigenous, Creole, and Cajun basketweaving, net and trap making communities in conjunction with the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Hilliard Art Museum.