Paul Down
Associate Professor of Industrial Design
Office: 108 Riley Hall
Phone: 574-631-6836
Email: down.1@nd.edu
Areas of Expertise
Industrial design, design for social betterment
Down directs Notre Dame’s industrial design group and has helped transform this small program into one of the leading industrial design programs in the world, giving it a uniquely social and ethical dimension. He is particularly interested in technologies which benefit disabled, beleaguered and stressed people. These enthusiasms are all the more remarkable for an inventive specialist in the automotive aftermarket whose 1987 design of the first commercially produced, jet-driven, human-powered watercraft—Jet Wave—so fascinated the high end gift specialists of Hammacher Schlemmer that it was featured on the cover of that year’s Spring Catalogue.
ND NEWSWIRE ARTICLES
Down, Conrado honored by Industrial Designers Society of America
BusinessWeek ranks ND Industrial Design among top programs
Industrial design team wins award for blind swimming technology
Turning scholarship into service: Social Design at Notre Dame
