About
Andrew, a Partner at IDEO, has always been an engineer at heart — from his exploits into undersea exploration with a cardboard aqualung (at age 6) and building wood-firing pottery kilns to his determined efforts to fix broken appliances and toys.
Educated at London’s Imperial College and the Royal College of Art, Andrew says his passion for making things has only grown stronger during his tenure as a consulting design engineer. He specializes in design for the health-care field and has created award-winning drug-delivery devices, surgical tools, and a standard-setting kidney transporter, among other things.
Since 2004, Andrew has led IDEO’s Chicago office, but he still finds time to wander in search of the unusual and the overlooked. In 2007, his book Everyday Engineering was published by Chronicle Books and ranked one of BusinessWeek’s “10 Best Books on Innovation to Get You Through the Recession.”
