Dean, School of Design
SCAD The University for Creative Careers
www.scad.edu
Judging Category: Student Work
Victor Ermoli, has more than 17 years of industrial design experience and has been featured in Business Report’s “40 under 40,” I.D. magazine’s “40 Best Designers Under 30” and one of “The Most Influential Educators of 2010” by DesignIntelligence. Ermoli joined SCAD in January 1998 as chair of the industrial design department and was named dean of the School of Design in 2005. Under his leadership, SCAD became the first design college in the United States to plan and build a working, street-legal prototype car, the EXO Spyder, which was unveiled in 1999. He also led the industrial design department to create a sports boat, “The Stinger,” winner of an International Composites Design Competition award. In 2001, he received a U.S. patent for a design for a new line of Venetian blinds.
