Stephen Schock

Background

About Stephen Schock

Professor Stephen Schock is a full time Product Design faculty at the College for Creative Studies. He has over 30 years of design and research experience including automotive, medical, exhibit, furniture, footwear, lifestyle, graphic, industrial, farming, toy products, and architectural-scale installation. He has been awarded the IDEA Gold Medal for Design Excellence and Innovation, awards for Design Excellence from the ID Annual Design Review, Henry Ford Innovation Institute and the Design Journal. He has worked for numerous clients and manufacturers in North America and Europe including General Motors, DKNY, Knoll, Stanley, Stryker Medical, Deutz-Fahr, New Holland, SAME, Marshall Fields, Northwest Airlines, World Wrestling Entertainment, Graceland Entertainment, Hella, Bede Jet and RL corp and many others. He has led multidisciplinary student design projects with Fortune 500 corporations, Nike Inc, Samsung, Stanley Black & Decker, Reebok and research projects with Whirlpool, Magna International, Chrysler Corporation, Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America, Inc. and the user experience group Lextant. He has lectured on design process in the US, Europe and Asia, has served as the Mideast Educational Representative for the Industrial Design Society of America, and has facilitated workshops on Design Thinking and Design Research. He is the co-founder of Pingree Detroit and is currently the president of the Detroit Design Studio Inc. His work has been seen on CNN, published in numerous design journals, exhibited at the Whitney Museum shop in New York and is included in the 20th Century collection of the Detroit Institute of Art.