This Design Professor Makes Products With No Labels On Them
Less might not be more, but it can be better says RIT’s Josh Owen
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"Design is a virus for me, so it sort of infects everything that you do, in a positive way."
Josh Owen is settled into a cush Togo sofa in his upstate New York home, schooling me gently on his theories of design, which seem more like helpful suggestions than mandates. His soft-spoken demeanor makes him immediately approachable, more so than you'd expect the chair of the Industrial Design program at the Rochester Institute of Technology to be. Although he certainly looks the part: There's his drapey white T-shirt, black pants, and black Converse All-Stars that have been customized to remove an errant racing stripe.