Arunas Oslapas spends most of his academic months experimenting and learning design principles with his passionate students as they collectively attempt to understand the profession of industrial design. Life is short, so he indulges in the mountain sports of skiing, hiking, and fly fishing and spends each winter break with his family south of the border where they practice their Spanish and increase their tolerance for spicy food.

Arunas attended Montana State University and the University of Illinois and got some degrees. He started his career in Chicago as a space planner and draftsman and has worked for a film studio, office furniture manufacturer, and has taught at Kendall College of Art & Design, Brigham Young University, and for the last 14 years he has 'left the real world' to teach at Western Washington University. Arunas, and his wife Kathryn, founded WOW design in 1987, a product design consultancy which has spread its tentacles into graphic design, carbon fiber snowshoes, museum exhibits, and an assortment of consumer and industrial products. Garbage Art was formed in 1999 and focuses on recycled art and currently fills each summer with wacky adventures.

See Arunas' art at this portfolio site: Metal Art

Jason is an industrial designer with 15 years of consulting product design experience. Over forty of his designs have made it to the market to be successful products. His designs were awarded a Chicago Athenaeum Good Design Award in 1999, 2004, and 2006. He also holds thirteen US design and utility patents. He was a founding principal of the award winning design firm tool. in Boston, Massachusetts, and now runs a new design consultancy Morris ID serving select clients in the region.

Professor Morris earned his Master's of Industrial Design from Pratt Institute in 1996 and his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from West Virginia University in 1992.

See Jason's projects here: Jason's Projects, and read Jason's Blog here: Industrial Design Sandbox

Professor King is the former CEO of Teague. Teague was founded in 1926 by Walter Dorwin Teague. It is an award-winning industrial design firm, internationally recognized for the past eight decades as a talented and creative team. Teague celebrated its 80th Anniversary in 2006 and continues to innovate with work for the likes of Boeing, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Panasonic, Samsung, Xbox, and Nike. Del King leads the senior industrial design studio.