Sean Svendsen
Senior Industrial Designer

Education:
Columbus College of Art & Design / 1992
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Industrial Design

How many years experience?
17 years (14 years with Priority Designs)

List a few clients you have worked with?
TaylorMade Golf, American Standard, STX, Lowe’s

What is your speciality?
Concept and brand development & creation of visual brand languages

What is your favorite quote/saying?
"I never met a sets of wheels I didn’t like"

What are you most passionate about?
Cars

What are your hobbies?
Anything with cars.

Do you collect anything?
Cars, cars, and more cars. Did I mention cars?

What was your first car?
‘68 Chevelle – it was a Granny car with a straight six but it had a cherry body. My favorite car has been my ‘94 Miata.

What was the first concert you went to?
What else? The Cars. No actually it was Van Halen. Not the cruddy Van Hager version when they turned all soft, but the original rowdy David Lee Roth version.

What is your favorite scent?
Burning rubber & high octane racing gas

What is your favorite chair?
A Recaro racing seat bolted into a Viper.

Name 3 items always in your fridge?
Pizza, Ketchup and Chocolate Syrup

What was the last book you read? Blink

What was the last CD you bought?
Foo Fighters

What's your favorite drink?
Chocolate Milk Shakes

Does your friends think you look like someone famous? I’ve been told I look like John Travolta. Not the young, cool Saturday Night Fever version but the older, not as cool over-weight version.

What three things would you take to a deserted island?
My family, television, and a go-cart.