Design 21: Social Design Network

Industrial Designer / Artist

Pablo J. Ertze is an industrial designer and visual artist. He holds a M.A. in Industrial Arts at San Francisco State University and a B.A. in Art from California State University, Long Beach where he experimented with all kinds of mediums and techniques within fields of industrial design and fine arts, ultimately to embrace both forces with alliance of Technology as the most powerful way to communicate and to improve our lives and the world around us.

As a designer, Ertze is an avid enthusiast of universal and accessible design to meet the needs of users with all sorts of abilities. By incorporating the aesthetic elements of art with function and technology his designs inspire inclusive and responsible solutions to improve people's quality of life. Thus, his passion for the betterment of life embarks as well a quest for the sustainability and preservation of our environment.

As an artist, Ertze awakens a world of perceptual dimensions by interlacing memories of sensations, moments, places, people, and events through his work as the vehicle. While transcending from a technological and industrial design background, his approach to art resembles a unique and diverse alliance of creative and innovative forces. Thus, his latest work fuses technology and art in a dynamic and interactive way inviting the viewer to participate.