Davin Stowell

Davin Stowell is the founder and CEO of Smart Design, a multi-disciplinary design consultancy. Over the last 27 years, Davin has established Smart Design as one of the world's premier design firms focused on consumer products, services and experiences. An expert in strategic consumer product design and planning, Davin has steered the design directions for a broad range of clients including: OXO International, Hewlett-Packard, Johnson & Johnson, Gillette and World Kitchen.

The OXO Good Grips line he created in 1989 introduced the concept of Universal Design in everyday products and has received more than two dozen awards, including the IDSA/BusinessWeek "Design of the Decade Gold Award," the American Society on Aging Gold, the first Arthritis Foundation Award and it is included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The OXO story is currently used as a design management case study in the MBA program at Harvard University.

Davin holds a bachelor's degree in Industrial Design from Syracuse University. He opened his own design office in 1978, which became Smart Design in 1980. Davin is an ACTIVE member of the IDSA, Industrial Designers Society of America, the Recipient of numerous patents, and his work is featured in museum collections worldwide.