Jonathan Loudon

Partner, Swave Studios

Jonathan Loudon has been involved with innovative product development for the past 20 years. He has worked across diverse sectors – from commercial furniture and medical devices to consumer products and sustainability initiatives. Clients range from Office Max and Canadian Tire to Roche Pharmaceuticals and Alias Wavefront. He was previously Managing Partner at Cooler Solutions, with Advanced Concepts at Teknion, and Design Director at VisionMaker, a high tech start-up. He is currently a founding partner of Swave Studios, a product development and innovation-based consultancy located in Toronto.
Jonathan is very involved with the design community, is past president of ACIDO (Association of Chartered Industrial Designers of Ontario) and is on the board of ACID (Association of Canadian Industrial Designers)

Specialties: Product development programs, industrial design, innovation consulting, user centric research and project definition, future creation and visualization,