Welcome Chad Phillips!

The Fab.com office is starting to burst at the seams as we’re adding a host of fantastic new members to our team. We’re especially excited to announce that Chad Phillips is joining us as Director of Product Acquisition. Chad is a dynamic force in the design industry and is known as one of the most clued-in tastemakers in New York. We can’t wait to see what he brings to Fab.com!

As per our usual tradition, we will now welcome Chad by asking him our Fab Five Questions:


1. Who are you?

I am Chad Phillips, a Retail and Design Nerd. I most recently consulted with Areaware, The Greenwich Hotel, and The Museum of Sex, on various projects, prior to that I spent 7 years building Kidrobot with Paul Budnitz, leaving there as the Creative Director in 2010, and before that I was at the design mecca moss in SoHo, absorbing the magic during its heyday for almost 5 years. I also made a handful of iPhone apps and I co-founded a monthly meet-up for creatives and designers hosted in Manhattan, NYCSCL, with Joe Doucet, and we just added Kiel Mead as our third founder.


2. What inspires you?

My wife, first and foremost, then living in NYC. 


3. Why does design matter?

Design matters because everything is design, whether considered or not, intentional or not, and from nature or not. Design is everything around us, more people should pay attention to the things they own and see, and why they like them. There is no right or wrong necessarily.

DIY chair by Enzo Mari

4. How do you define “beautiful”?

I think beauty, for each of us, is that thing that gets our heart racing, our minds buzzing with curiosity and excitement, and our eyes glazed with tears. Those things that affect us in ways we can’t really describe.

Timor calendar by Enzo Mari


5. What is your favorite design?

I am a huge Enzo Mari fan, and obsess over everything he did. Also, that he himself was a big fan of ‘anonymous’ designs is truly inspiring, seeing beauty in the shape and form itself, not because someone you are supposed to like made it. His book ‘Autoprogettazione’ in which he created and outlines plans for anyone to build his designs, is maybe one of the most incredible design ‘products’ that exists because, as the saying goes, “teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”

 

Chair by Enzo Mari

Track tray by Enzo Mari

Notes

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