

Stephen Burks
Stephen Burks Man MadeNew York, United StatesStephen Burks is one of the most recognized American industrial designers of his generation. His Brooklyn studio, Stephen Burks Man Made, is deeply invested in the transformative power of craft techniques that challenge the limits of new technologies within industrial production. Through a community-based approach, Stephen engages hand production as a strategy for innovation for some of the world’s leading design-driven brands. The only African-American to win the Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt National Design Award in Product Design, Stephen believes in a pluralistic vision of design that is inclusive of all cultural perspectives and backgrounds.
(November 2023)