Join us October 15th @ 6:30 p.m. Room B202 for a lecture and pizza!
Guest Lecturer: Andrew Gallici

Principal of Designstead

Andrew loves retail. He loves shopping, observing people shop and ultimately designing compelling shopping spaces. With 22 years of experience in retail store design, and a first-hand history of working in stores, Andrew has an intuitive understanding and approach to design problem solving.

Andrew Gallici is a co-founder of Designstead. He immerses himself in a strategic methodology for experience-based design thinking that drives design development. Design is about engagement and an increasing number of conversations extend beyond the realm of physical space to include communications, choreography, e-commerce and social media.

Prior to starting Designstead one year ago, he held Executive roles at figure3, Watt International, and the International Design Group. Andrew has worked locally and internationally, primarily focused on retail design. In 2006 he had the exciting opportunity to oversee a team in Dubai, UAE that provided design review to the 500+ tenants of Dubai Festival City, a multi-million square metre mixed use development. His involvement in a broad spectrum of retail sectors including fashion, luxury, home wares, technology, food & beverage, entertainment, hospitality, shopping centre, financial and developmental, in diverse international locations, are intrinsic to the successful marriage of his design and business sensibilities. Andrew has experience in the hospitality and residential sectors as well.

Through his career, Andrew has been published in various design and trade publications, and spoken at numerous industry conferences. More recently he presented at the Service Design Network in San Francisco. He is privileged to have won many design awards through his career, including the 2000 ARIDO Designer of the Year Award and two ARIDO Awards and a Best of Canada Award in September for work done while at figure3 and Designstead. He and his partners are thrilled to have won three awards in their first year of business for their first client, Squint Eyewear.