Designer As Entrepreneur: Erick Millan, Creative Director at Cesar Millan

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Cesar Millan Collapsible Dog Feeder





ERICK MILLAN
Creative Director - Cesar Millan

Born in Mazatlán, Mexico, Erick S. Millan’s creative nature has always compelled him to explore new ways of life through design. This passion led him to earn his bachelor’s in architecture from the Southern California Institute of Architecture in 2007. While traveling around the world, Millan had the opportunity to study architecture, urban design and digital arts.

Cesar Millan Elevated Bowl
He has exhibited his work in furniture design at the Parsons School of Architecture in New York. Millan has worked with a number of prominent architectural firms in the Los Angeles area, including Touraine Richmond Architects, WROAD, Langdon Wilson, DMJM Design and Doug Aitken. He is currently the creative director for Cesar Millan’s brands, overseeing all product design as well as branding and marketing strategies.
Erick Millan

At the IDSA Western Design Conference (Long Beach, CA, April 12-13th, 2013) Erick will be presenting the following talk:

DOG + DESIGN = INSTINCTUAL LIVING

With people now having fewer children and adopting more dogs, our canine companions are becoming the initial mediators in our living choices—but yet there is no real design interest in providing the right tools to fulfill a dog and educate the owners. Demand for dog products is overwhelming, but there is no aesthetic synergy between those products and their larger function in human habitation. Creative choices in this area need to re-focus on the conception and design of products with purpose. This lecture is an investigation and rethinking of how to design products for dogs, with a purpose, working in collaboration with Cesar Millan, The New York Times bestselling author and star of the television shows “Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan” and “Leader of the Pack.”
Cesar Millan Collapsible Feeder

Learn more about the conference here.
http://idsa.org/2013westerndistrictdesignconference

Register here:
http://idsa.org/2013westerndistrictdesignconference-register

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