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Josh Owen (born 1970) is an American industrial designer and educator. He graduated from Cornell University in 1994 with a B.F.A. in sculpture and a B.A. in visual studies. In 1995 he received an M.F.A. in furniture design from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Owen is currently an associate professor of industrial design at Philadelphia University where he holds The Craig R. Benson Chair for Innovation. He also teaches a product design course at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design. He is the founder of Josh Owen LLC in Philadelphia. His professional projects are produced by major international manufacturers including Areaware, Casamania, Kikkerland and Umbra.

He has been the winner of three Chicago Athenaeum Good Design Awards, the International Design Award, and has received honorable mentions for the ID Annual Design Review and the Red Dot Design Award. Owen is the author of the book Big Ideas / Small Packages. His work is included in the permanent design collections of the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Denver Art Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Chicago Athenaeum. His work has been featured in major exhibitions, numerous books on design, and is regularly included in critical design discourse.

Publications

 * Big Ideas / Small Packages, Woodsphere Publishing, Philadelphia 2006. ISBN 0-9767723-0-2.