Chuck Pelly

Chuck Pelly

nationality: American

Chuck Pelly is a 40-year veteran of the design industry. He is the founder and former President of Designworks/USA, which is one of the world's best industrial design offices and BMW's U.S. design studio. DesignworksUSA is one of the top 10 design consultancies in the world and has won numerous awards for innovative product and automotive design, being instrumental in the design of the BMW X5, the Z4 and the award-winning BMW 3 Series.

Chuck is also cofounder with Joan Gregor of The Design Academy Inc, a multidisciplinary consulting group. dedicated to applying design and creative knowledge to corporations, educational institutions and organizations. Pelly continues to consult on projects for Nokia Design, Magna International, LA Auto Show, BMW Group, Lotosland Design Workshop, Lightolier, New Zealand Trade, as well as others.

awards and special recognitions

awards

Chuck has been awarded more than 40 U.S. and foreign patents, has received numerous awards for his work, has taught and lectured broadly, served on many boards, has been President of the Industrial Design Society of America, and an IDSA Fellow since 1994. Chuck has also been involved with the Art Center College of Design since 1968 and has received their George Jergenson Design Achievement award for his significant contribution.
In his distinctive career, Chuck has received over 50 awards of distinction, including the Eyes on Design Lifetime Achievement Award for car design, and has been nominated four times for the Lifetime Achievement Award and for the Design Mind Award for excellence, innovation and enhancement of the quality of life by the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.

special recognitions

Los Angeles Magazine, The Power Issue 2006 (December 2006), inclusion in "The List" (the most influential people in Los Angeles), page 143.
Judge for 3 years for Art Center Car Classic, Pasadena, CA, July 2004 - 2006
Nominee for the 2005 National Design Designer's Mind Award, Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt Design Museum
Nominee 3 years in a row for the 2003, 2004, 2005 National Design Lifetime Achievement Award, Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt Design Museum
Lifetime Achievement Award for race car design, 2004 Eyes on Design, Opthamology Institute
Nominee for the 2003 National Design Lifetime Achievement Award, Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt Design Museum
Featured in "Return on Innovation", Bill Dresselhouse, 2002
Participant Yacht Vision '02, Auckland, New Zealand, February 2002
Particiapant AIA Knowledge Summit, San Diego, CA April 7-9, 2002
Participant, Cal Poly Pomona, Roundtable on New Directions in Professional Development for Design Educators and Practitioners, Pomona, CA 2001
United States delegate, ICSID XXII General Assembly, Seoul, Korea, 2001
Judge, Michelin Challenge Bidendum 2001 Design Awards, Los Angles, CA, 2001
Participant, Herbert Quandt Stiftung Transatlantic Forum , Munich, Germany, 2001
Herbert Quandt Stiflung "Future prospects for E.U.- U.S. relationships" workshop, Washington DC, 3/2001
Organizer/speaker, Herbert Quandt Stiftung Transatlantic Forum 2000, Marina del Rey, CA, 2000
I.F. Jury Judge, Industrie Forum Design, Hannover, Germany, 1998
Road & Track Magazine judge for Annual Kids' Auto Art Contest, Newport Beach, CA, 1996-1999
Knoll Design Symposium participant, MI, 1997
World Design Founder's Circle, 1996
UCLA critic for MBA Graduate Design class, Westwood, CA, 1995
I.D.S.A. Northwest Chapter Annual Conference, Juror, Seattle, WA, 1995
IDSA George A. Jergenson Design Achievement Award for significant contribution to the profession of Automotive design, 1994
Appointed I.D.S.A. Fellow, 1994
Television appearance: David Horowitz’s Consumer Report
Worldesign, 17th ISCID Congress, United States representative , Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1992
I.D.S.A representative to Japanese Design Society, 1991 Charles W. Pelly, Resume Page 5