63: Industrial Designer Pete Whitworth

Welcome to the Creative South Podcast! I’m your host, Jason Frostholm. Today, I talk with Pete Whitworth. Pete is an Industrial Designer for SmartShape Design, an industrial design firm in Cleveland, Ohio, We talk about working as a caricature while in high school, his time studying industrial design, the intersection of industrial design and user experience design, and more, all right after this.

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