Kevin Beard
Professor
Product Design / Humanities and Sciences
Biography
My executive and entrepreneurial experience in design and brand creation and development gives me a unique insight into brand-driven companies, their customers and consumers. This experience drives my teaching and work as the director of wearables and soft goods design in the Product Design Department.
I am a "shoe dog," having spent my career using design to increase athlete performance with Adidas, Reebok, K-Swiss and the brand I designed and founded called Piloti. I am passionate about all forms of motorsport and car culture, for which Piloti supplied competition and street-casual footwear and accessories.
On a personal note, I am a private pilot and my wife and I train in hunter-jumper equestrian sport. When I was a student at ArtCenter I played tenor sax in the Vocalions blues band.
Classes
- PRD-309-02: Design Lab 1
- PRD-480-01: Prof Prep & Grad Review
- HBUS-220-01: Money Math for the Right Brain
- PRD-461-01: Professional Preparation
- PRD-061-01: Professional Preparatn (wkshp)
- PRD-080-01: Prof Prep & Grad Review
- PRD-455-02: Product Capstone Project
- TDS-335E-01: New Balance Sponsored Studio
- PRD-309-01: Design Lab 1
- EANI-403-01: Portfolio 1