The Design Academy Experience

The Design Academy, Inc. is a design innovation consultancy optimizing design by applying collaborative and interdisciplinary knowledge to solve today’s complex design and integration issues.

It encompasses a dynamic global network of highly experienced professionals who are dedicated to the advancement of innovation into high performance sustainable solutions for clients and for the world in which they profit.

Our centrical force is in using our Power of Collective Thought Methodology™ to increase our clients’ design equity – People, Process, Products, and Positioning, with spirals of influence incorporating industry, academia, government, and design advocates. The power behind the methodology is the diversity of experience, knowledge and global brands in which the network has influenced over the years.

Through their diverse and unique design heritage, the founding partners, Chuck Pelly and Joan Gregor bring a holistic and realistic perspective to the business of design, its’ application and cultural integration.

Our vision is expansive. Our processes proven. Our results impactful.

In essence we fuse the experiential with the empirical. We seek links, parallels, abrasion points and peak experiences that will bring new insights, opportunity gaps, and breakthrough innovation beyond the current world in which we participate. The “magic” is in the filtering, integrating spirals of data and translation in to tangible real world experiences, products and services. We utilize a wide range of methodologies and modalities customized to the client / project at hand through drawing on the network of associates bringing high level processes and strategies.

While we highly value aesthetics and design, we see it as an expected criterion. What we seek on an intrinsic level is the relationship between man, machine, environment and experience. Discovery, altruism and excellence are the lens in which we look through. We not only seek to find innovation in current situations, but also have a view toward the future.