Ti Chang, Designing Social Change
Friday, October 5, 2018
6:00 PM-9:00 PM
Women's pleasure has long been stigmatized -- wrapped up in
social constructs and gendered expectations. So designing a line of sex toys
for women was anything but an easy journey. Ti Chang, industrial designer and
co-founder of luxury sex toy brand CRAVE, discusses the ups, downs and
in-betweens of trying to bust through stigma and start conversations using
innovative design as the centerpiece. You will hear her personal story
from being a designer to a sex toy entrepreneur and advocate for designing for
women- and how she hustled her way from the corporate world to bootstrapping
her company. She will share her journey of navigating traditional employment,
building a company, and designing for social change.
Join the Product Design program in welcoming Ti Chang on Friday,
October 5 at 6:00pm in the URBN Annex Screening Room. This talk is free and
open to the public. After the talk, the Crave Pleasure Factory will be accessible from 7:30-9:00pm.
Ti Chang Bio:
Ti Chang is an industrial designer / entrepreneur passionate
about designing products for women. she is the co-founder of Crave -
a luxury sex toy manufacturer for women who has been featured in Fortune, Huffington
Post, Forbes, Cosmopolitan, New York
Times, and many more. Crave, a San Francisco-based company
specializes in discreet and beautifully designed luxury sex toys. Ti leads the
concept and design for the company’s full line of products which has won numerous
awards including Red Dot, IDEA and Good Design. Prior to Crave, Ti founded
INCOQNITO, a line of intimate accessories that double as fashionable jewelry
which was acquired by CRAVE in 2011. Ti is best known for the design of Vesper, a
vibrator necklace, one of the most celebrated and innovative sex toys
disrupting the adult toy industry and changing the conversation around sex.
Earlier, Ti held positions with major consumer brands, including
Trek Bicycle and Goody Products. Ti holds a MA in Design Products from Royal
College of Art in London and a BS in Industrial Design from Georgia Institute
of Technology. Ti grew up in Atlanta, GA and now enjoys life and work in San
Francisco.
TW/ IG: @designerTi