In 2014, Martin and Sung Jang established the design consulting firm Article Inc. Previously, Martin led multidisciplinary teams at the global design company IDEO’s Chicago office for companies in the consumer electronics, medical, and furniture industries for 12 years. His work for clients, including Motorola, Lilly, Steelcase, Baxter, DaimlerChrysler, Gateway, McDonald’s, and Nanosphere, has resulted in designs that successfully blend user, technology, and business needs. In 1985, he co-founded with David Gresham the award-winning consulting firm Design Logic in Chicago; their clients included Bang & Olufsen, Dictaphone, and View-Master. Before that, he served as Senior Industrial Designer at ITT Corporation in Stratford, CT (1983–84), and he also worked as an independent consultant in New York (1982–83), at GAF Corporation in New York (1981–82), at Siemens Corporation in Munich (1979–80), and at JL Barrault in Paris (1978–79).
Speaking and Publishing
Martin’s invited speaking roles and panel sessions include “Lotopia: A Future of Making Products Locally” (Global Innovation Forum on Technology and Society, Harbin, China, 2016); “Kickstarting: Changing How Innovation Happens” (Harbin Institute of Technology, 2015); Innovation and Design Thinking Module 4 (CEDIM, Monterrey, Mexico, 2014); and Design Thinking Workshop (Far Eastern Group, Taipei, Taiwan, 2014). Martin’s work has been exhibited and published in books and periodicals including Blueprint, Casa Vogue, and Time. Martin’s work is in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Cranbrook Art Museum.
