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Ti Chang is an industrial designer, activist, and conceptual artist who deliberately moves between art and design. She creates unexpected juxtapositions through her designed objects that aesthetically explore identity, feminism, and cultural norms by blending art, activism, and design.

As an established industrial designer, her work in pleasure products for over 15 years has brought a new definition of luxury in intimacy products. She is the co-founder and chief design officer at CRAVE, a pleasure house elevating pleasure through aesthetics and innovation.

Ti’s vision of bringing beauty and emotional connection to pleasure products has created the pleasure jewelry category.

She is best known for the design of Vesper vibrator necklace in 2014, one of the most celebrated and iconic pleasure products, often seen on A-list celebrities that inspire sensual empowerment and provoke cultural conversations. Ti has won international design awards –including Red Dot, Good Design, Fast Company’s Innovation By Design–and were among the first pleasure products to be adopted by mainstream retailers such as Nordstrom, Goop, including a collaboration with Saint Laurent.

Prior to CRAVE, Ti bootstrapped her first company INCOQNITO in 2008, a line of intimate accessories that double as fashionable jewelry which was acquired by CRAVE in 2010. Earlier, Ti held positions with major consumer brands, including Trek Bicycle and Goody Products, where she helped pave the way for women by serving as the first female industrial designer at both Trek and Goody.

In 2020, she was featured in the award-winning documentary “The Dilemma of Desire.”  Ti is a classically trained industrial designer with an M.A. in Design Products from the Royal College of Art in London and a B.S. in Industrial Design from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Ti is a champion of improving the inclusivity in the industrial & product design industry. In addition to her work at CRAVE, Ti is a sought-after speaker and lecturer, and has given talks at conferences and universities around the world. Ti was a key part of establishing the Women in Design professional chapters of Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA). She now serves on the advisory board of CRAVE Foundation for Women. 

 

EXHIBITIONS              

  • Jan 2025 Toy Stories: Designing Intimacy, Kunsthal Rotterdam

  • Nov 2024 Museum of Sex - Miami, Florida

  • May 2023 Upon Further Reflection at NYCxDesign

  • Nov 2022 Design + Health exhibition at World Design Capital in Valencia, Spain

  • Aug 2020 Design Innovations for Women PopUp Exhibition at MoMA Design Store

  • Dec 2018 - Jan 2021 Museum of Jewelry, The Future Room Vicenza, Italy

  • Jun 2018 Best of the Bay Exhibition for San Francisco Design Week San Francisco, CA

  • June 2017 Better Together Design Exhibition San Francisco, CA

  • Sept 2016 Body. Exhibition at Pokoyhof Passage in Wrocław, Poland

  • Mar 2016 Solo Exhibition: Ti Chang: Pleasure in Plain Sight  San Jose, Costa Rica 

  • June 2014 IDSA Women in Industrial Design San Francisco, CA

  • Jan 2008 IMM Cologne for Omexey Cologne, Germany

  • June 2007 Royal College of Art The Great Exhibition London, UK

  • April 2006 Made by Machine, Directed by Ron Arad Milan Design Week Milan, Italy

DESIGN AWARDS

2025 Georgia Tech College of Design: The Distinguished Design Excellence Award

2021 Core77 Health & Wellness Runner-Up: Duet Pro

2020 FAST COMPANY Wellness Finalist: Vesper Touch & TeaseRings

2020 Core77 Personal Accessory Winner: Vesper Touch & Tease Rings

2020 Core77 Community Choice: Vesper Touch & Tease Rings

2020 Red Dot Award: Vesper Touch & Tease Rings

2019 ADS Community Design Award

2015 Red Dot Award: Vesper Vibrator Necklace

2015 Spark Award Bronze: Vesper Vibrator Necklace

2014 IDEA Finalist: Duet Lux

2014 Spark Award Finalist: Duet Lux

2014 IDEA Bronze: Vesper Vibrator Necklace

2014 Good Design Winner: Duet Lux

2014 IDSA Chairman's Award

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