Judd Lord Email & Phone Number

Design is fun, but it’s easy to lose sight of that when you get wrapped up in the minutia. You’ll always get better results when you enjoy what you’re doing, because that enthusiasm affects every aspect of the process. So for my team, I help create balance by setting clear design direction, while keeping things loose and irreverent.As Senior Director of Industrial Design for Delta Faucet Company, I foster a culture where our designers have direct access to the entire product development process. From the initial research phase, to working with engineers and marketing teams to get a product on the shelf, we’re hands-on and collaborative. It’s exhilarating to start with a blank canvas – maybe a doodle on a napkin – and create functional sculpture that helps others all over the world.Travel and experiencing other cultures is key to design for two main reasons. First, by meeting end-users, showroom professionals, interior designers and architects, we gain trend and consumer insights. Secondly, traveling abroad inspires us. By getting out of our comfort zones and absorbing different languages, sounds, sights and smells, it refreshes the creative process and heightens our senses, spurring new ideas and concepts.Like many, my path to industrial design wasn’t a direct one. I didn’t even know ID was a field until my senior year in college, having studied engineering and graphics. By pure accident, I stumbled upon this profession taking a class I thought was going to be all about computer graphics that ended up being all about industrial design. After that class I never looked back. I completed my engineering degree and applied to ID grad school.Personally, I enjoy being outdoors, running, hiking and canoeing. Landscape architecture is another passion - utilizing plants and their textures, colors and contrasts in order to create outdoor beauty. I also have a deep appreciation for classic cars (my first word was ‘car’, btw), especially models from the '50s and ‘60s.

Listed skills include Industrial Design, Product Design, Product Development, Cross Functional Team Leadership, and 4 others.