EMILY PILLOTON

Founder
Project H Design

Emily Pilloton is an industrial designer, writer, critic, unyielding optimist, part- time baker and California girl. Trained in architecture at UC Berkeley and product design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she started Project H in 2007 to provide a conduit and catalyst for humanitarian design. Current Project H initiatives include water transport and filtration systems in South Africa and India, educational math toys for a school for AIDS orphans in Uganda, a homeless-run design co-op in LA, and design concepts for foster care education and therapy in Austin. She has written for publications including ID, GOOD, and ReadyMade, and is the author of a forthcoming book on "the industrial design revolution" which will be published by Metropolis Books in 2009.