Ian O Malott is an industrial designer and innovation strategist with 10+ years experience designing with startups, studios and fortune 50 companies across product, packaging, furniture, and lighting. His practice aims to find the intersection between industrial scale and narrative driven design through contextual material use and clever production methods.
Native Co
Yves St Laurent
Common Kin
9 Elements
Frontgate
Procter & Gamble
Matte Projects
Swiffer
Natural Athletics
HORSE LLC
Tide
Industrial Design
Concept Generation
Design Research
Product Strategy
3D Visualization
Art Direction
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Furniture
2026
The Bend Chair explores minimalist form through two bent sheet metal surfaces adjoined by wooden legs. The design emphasizes material efficiency and straight forward assembly, utilizing stock hardware to reduce complexity using the precisely folded sheet metal to create structure and ergonomics with the contrasting wooden legs. The result is a minimal, durable, chair optimized for scalable production.
Product
Seattle, Washington
2024
Swivel is the worlds first essentialist cookwear set designed with space in mind. Swivel houses 10 essential cookware items - 1 pot, 2 pans, 1 baking dish, 1 universal lid, a santoku knife, paring knife, tongs, spatula, and 2 cutting boards - all within in 1 square foot. Redefining the codes and cues of cookware for a functional, counter-worthy aesthetic.
Lighting
Oslo, Norway
2026
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Packaging
Cincinnati, Ohio
2026
Tide Evo is an evolution in the laundry experience. It brings the simplicity of pods, the cleaning power of liquids and the chemisty of powder into one simple, plasticless, sustainable detergent that is better for you, your clothes, and the planet.
Lighting
2025
The Luck Lamp reinterprets the four leaf clover as a modern lighting object, merging symbolic form with industrial efficiency. Inspired by a good friend who finds, presses, and laminates four leaf clovers. I wanted to build upon this practice of appreciation and design an object that uses the clover motif in a fun and unexpected way
Furniture
Cincinnati, Ohio
2018
The Modul Statement chair is an exploration into brutalist design philosophy using honest materials, straight forward construction. The statement chair serves as a object that embraces the essential and rejects the unnecessary.
Packaging
Paris, France
2023
Make-up meets skincare with YSL Glow Kit. Expanding upon YSL’s foundation to offer a line-up of serum based formulas across the skincare regimen.
Product
2026
Drawing inspiration from the distinctive visual language of Midwestern - American mid-century artist, Charlie Harper; the bird bath balances simplified form with contrasting proportion resulting in a bird bath that operates as both a utilitarian product and a piece of environmental art.