Andrew Graham

Andy Graham is a designer and educator with more than twenty-five years of experience in fabrication, digital arts, and product development. He holds a B.A. in Graphic Design from DePaul University and a B.F.A. in Industrial Design from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. After early work in commercial photography, web design, and scenic carpentry, he spent the last twenty years focused on industrial design, with a concentration in prototyping.

Andy began his industrial design career in the Motorola cellular division model shop before joining the University of Illinois Chicago Innovation Center, where he is now the Assistant Director of Resources and Research Environments, the Medical Device Lab project lead, and the head of prototyping. In these roles, he keeps the center's world-class facility ready to support the research of faculty, staff, and students, and he helps advance product concepts to their next stage of development.