Danny Chambers is a designer that organizes materials from Tiffin, Ohio.
He is the youngest son of Dr. Tom and Dr. Linda Chambers. Danny lives in San Fransisco, his partner Shelby Wauligman lives in Beaverton.
Danny shares a design practice with James Gall called Almanac. Together they Co-Direct the industrial design program at 1X Technologies.
Experience
1X Technologies
Co-Director of Industrial Design, 2026
Design of Neo the Home Robot in collaboration with Dar Sleeper, Rob Paik, Bodyshop and the Engineers at 1X.
Almanac LLC
Founding Partner, 2022-2025
Design Practice with James Gall building brands in consideration of product, and product in consideration of brands, resulting in both soft and firm objects.
Futures for Nike ACG w/ Banyay 2025
Robot Shoes for 1X 2025-Current
Design and Strategy Allbirds 2024-2025
87.5% w/ Feit 2021-2024
WORKorg Creative Direction 2022-2025
Natural Athletics w/Feit 2022-2025
Strategy for Overtime Media w/ MRG 2022
Day Owl
Brand Director 2020 - 2022
Lead brand strategy and communication of the first fully circular bag brand - online channel, bag recycling and secondhand operations.
Lead and develop team - designer, copywriter, social manager, merchandizer and interns.
Conceptualize and coordinate evergreen brand initiatives alongside four yearly seasonal campaigns.
Development of internal B2B partnerships along with external collaborators - artists, non-profits, brands, web developers, photographers and creatives.
Product and Merchandising Director 2020
Insights, design brief and launch strategy of product line growth from 2 to 10 products.
PPE Production Manager, 2020
Leadership of a team of 16 full time employees during the COVID19 pandemic. Production of 70,000 face shields within 12 weeks. Coordination of 125K face masks over 8 month period.
Nike
Training and Olympics Material Design (ETW), 2019
Performance training footwear special projects designer for AMP Energy Collection and Tokyo Olympics across five sports - fencing, lifting, boxing, field hockey, and wrestling.
Basketball Material Design (ETW), 2018
Performance basketball footwear material design across entire footwear category including work on the last Kobe shoe(AD NXT 360 FF), LeBron Soldier 13, Kyrie Low 1&2 and many others (r.i.p. Alphadunk)
Service & Involvement
Mentorship 2017 - Current
Support individual students in their experiential exploration, learning, and development, message danny@dannychambers.net if you want to chat.
Arc’teryx Portland Portland OR, 2022-2025
Brand athlete and local trail running guide for the portland trail running community.
Produce For People Portland OR, 2022-2024
Adams Community Garden coordinator responsible for harvesting, collecting and donating 200+ lbs of produce to those facing food insecurity.
The OR Foundation Accra Ghana, 2020-2023
Fashion Fieldwork first hand research on clothing waste and over-consumption, Too Much Not Enough auction fundraiser and Speak Volumes production transparency campaign.
WORK Org Port-au-Prince Haiti, 2020-2022
Social accounts management including emergency response communication and design support for the 2021 Earthquake.
Pittsburgh Promise Cincinnati OH, 2021
Strategy and implementation of packing and delivering 1,600 backpacks with school supplies for Pittsburgh Public Schools sixth-graders.
Precious Plastics Einthoven Netherlands, 2019-2020
Founding member of Fixing Fashion - creative strategist and branding of the open-source textile mending platform including 2019 Dutch Design Week showcase.
Education
University of Cincinnati DAAP Cincinnati, Ohio. 2012-2017
Industrial Design, Class of 2017, Cum Laude
Hong Kong Polytechnic Kowloon, Hong Kong. Fall 2015
Visiting student, Institute of Textiles & Clothing
Pensole Portland, Oregon. Summer 2015
World Sneaker Championship, Finalist
Skillset
Visual Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, Runway.ML, Airtable, Blender, Miro, Sketching, Sewing and Collage.
Communication Ability to facilitate action between qualitative and quantitative business considerations. Leadership and coordination of high functioning, diverse teams.