Jay Doblin

Who is Jay Doblin?

Jay Doblin was an American industrial designer, best known for his contribution to the field of design in particular his work related to systems thinking, design methods and design theory in general. Throughout his professional career Doblin worked with some of the most important design firms of their time including Raymond Loewy Associates, Lippincott & Margulies, and Unimark International, which he founded together with Massimo Vignelli and Bob Noorda. Between 1955 and 1969, he served as director of the IIT Institute of Design, a design school founded in 1937 in Chicago by László Moholy-Nagy, a former Bauhaus teacher. After his departure, he stayed involved with school as a professor. In 1981 he founded his strategic design planning consultancy, Doblin with Larry Keeley. In 2004, Jay Doblin was awarded the medal of the AIGA. Doblin became part of Monitor Group's innovation practice in 2007, and was acquired by Deloitte in 2013.