Mark Baskinger

Mark Baskinger is a Professor at Carnegie Mellon University whose work spans industrial design, interaction design, and strategic visual thinking. He brings a broad design fluency to his work, moving between theory and making and across scales, from visual information and interactions to products, environments, and systems. His current scholarship explores Durational Design, a practice-based design inquiry that expands industrial design's temporal imagination through phenomenology, archaeology, and material practice.

He is the co-author of Drawing Ideas® (Watson-Guptill, 2013), one of the most widely adopted design drawing texts of the past decade, now in its eighth printing and published internationally. His work has been exhibited at the Centre Pompidou, the Museum of Modern Art, the Vasarely Museum, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, and museums and galleries throughout North America, Europe, and Asia, and is held in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Illinois.

A recipient of Carnegie Mellon's Henry Hornbostel Teaching Award, Baskinger has been recognized by Design Intelligence as one of the Most Admired Industrial Design Educators in the United States. His work has been featured by CNN, NPR, Wired, Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, Smithsonian Magazine, Vice, and other international media. He holds five U.S. design patents and has led more than seventy workshops on design innovation, visual thinking, and creative collaboration for Fortune 500 companies, technology firms, universities, and international conferences. Throughout his career, Baskinger has built interdisciplinary collaborations across design, engineering, robotics, human-computer interaction, business, and the arts. As inaugural director of the Joseph Ballay Center for Design Fusion , he led its launch and helped establish the interdisciplinary model that Fast Company described as positioning "design at the heart of innovation" at Carnegie Mellon. He also co-directs MoonArk , the internationally recognized cultural payload launched aboard Astrobotic's first lunar mission.

He holds a PhD from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, an MFA in Industrial Design from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and a BFA in Graphic Design from Carnegie Mellon University. In addition to his faculty responsibilities, he is an assistant coach and faculty advisor for Carnegie Mellon's ice hockey team.