About
Design* is a collection of casual observations and reflections of two people who find themselves working, conversing, and studying at the nexus of business and design.
We chose to call the site Design* as these entries are footnotes to the ongoing conversations we are having among ourselves, our friends, and our colleagues about a range of issues that impact our work as design professionals, students, consumers, and as human beings.
You can argue that all of our experiences fundamentally come down to issues of design. During the course of our careers, we are also discovering new opportunities for design and struggling to understand the identities, roles and responsibilities of designers.
Design* calls out the important subject matters, explores contexts and captures the marginalia of design perspectives and experiences in a way that can be both serious and fun.
About the authors
Angela Meyer
Angela Meyer is a business consultant and designer with experience in strategy design, design research, and information design. She has spent the past decade practicing, learning and pushing the boundaries of design by working with corporate, government, and nonprofit clients to invent new human-centered approaches to business problems and customer experience.
As Practice Leader for 2nd Road, a design and management consulting firm in Sydney, Australia, Angela worked with some of Australia’s largest companies and government agencies in the areas of strategy and service design. Prior to her three years down under, she spent four years as a researcher at Carnegie Mellon, managing a large-scale systems design project for the USPS. She is motivated by the challenge of taking design into organizational contexts and making design accessible and effective for business clients.
Angela holds a Masters degree in design from Carnegie Mellon’s School of Design. She also earned an M.A. in Women’s Studies from the University of York, UK, and has a Bachelor’s degree in English and Fine Arts from the University of Miami.
Case studies and Angela’s complete CV can be read on her portfolio site.
Eric Folger
Eric Folger is a design professional who’s been fortunate to have worked across many industries and several countries. His main focus has been leading strategic and design-led problem solving to meet business goals and create new business opportunities for organizations.
Prior to moving to back to the US, he worked with Suncorp, a large Financial organization in Sydney, Australia, where he was responsible for integrating design methodologies into both products and processes.
Before moving to Sydney, Eric was the Director of Product Development for Leed’s, a company that designed and manufactured products for the advertising and promotions industry. This position also entailed extensive work in Hong Kong and China where he managed manufacturing, sourcing, and design prototyping through partner organizations.
Eric also enjoyed several positions within specialty retail for companies such as American Eagle Outfitters, where he was Director of E-Commerce and also Divisional of Merchandise Planning; Victoria’s Secret, where he had a very successful tenure as a Buyer; and Britches of Georgetown, where he began his corporate career in retail planning.
Eric holds a Master of Design Methods degree from IIT’s Institute of Design and a B.F.A. in Cinematography from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Case studies and Eric’s complete CV can be read at ericfolger.com.