Work With Me.
Sometimes you don't need an agency. You need an experienced person in your corner.
I help companies and design teams make better products, stronger decisions, and real progress. Here are a few ways we can work together.
20+
YEARS
40+
BRANDS
100+
PRODUCTS
$2B+
PORTFOLIO
Two decades of industrial design, product development, and design leadership.
1M+
UNITS SHIPPED
01 / FRACTIONAL DESIGN LEADERSHIP
Senior design leadership, without the full-time hire.
For companies with designers, engineers, or product teams already in place that need experienced leadership to set direction, improve decision-making, and keep development moving.
Leadership through influence, not headcount.
TRANSLATE → ALIGN → DIRECT → SHIP
BEST FOR
Growing product teams
Leadership gaps
New design functions
Major product initiatives
ENGAGEMENT
Ongoing · Embedded with your team
Cadence defined around the need
“Blair has a unique talent for helping others improve their work without undermining their ownership, offering fresh perspectives that elevate the entire team's output.”
Dr. David A. Gilbert · CEO, Evermind
02 / DESIGN LEADERSHIP COACHING
Become better at leading design.
Designers get promoted for great work, then handed a team with no training. Most first-time leads hide the gap and wing it.
Design leadership scales craft through the team.
One-on-one coaching for designers moving from individual contributor into leadership, or design leaders who need an experienced outside perspective on real problems.
“Blair brings structure to ambiguity, strengthens design inside the business, and develops people.”
Clayton Burnett · Design Leader, Leedarson IoT Technology Inc.
BEST FOR
New design managers
Directors
Senior ICs moving into leadership
Small-team design leads
ENGAGEMENT
1:1 · Recurring sessions
Real problems, not curriculum
03 / CREATIVE CATALYST
Get a good team unstuck.
A short, focused intervention when a capable team needs outside perspective, a new direction, or enough momentum to move a difficult program forward.
BEST FOR
Internal design teams
Stalled programs
Early product exploration
Outside perspective
ENGAGEMENT
WORKSHOP
Focused working session
SPRINT
Short, bounded engagement
AUDIT
Independent outside assessment
“Blair has a fantastic eye for the nuance and detail of design whether in the context of consumer product exploration or graphic treatment and trade dress. In my experience he was equally comfortable with applied design work that extended upon or fit into an existing context or unbounded ‘blue sky’ exploration.”
Mark Rowan · CEO, Griffin Technology
NEED A PRODUCT DESIGNED?
That’s Crafted by.
If you need industrial design, engineering, prototyping, manufacturing support, or a multidisciplinary team to take a product from idea through production, that’s what Crafted by is for.
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