# Jonathan Burke > Experienced Design Director / Senior Industrial Designer and Mechanical Engineer Location: Berkeley, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/jonathanburke Proven Director Level Industrial Designer and Mechanical Engineer with 33 years experience with project management, concept design development, mechanical engineering direction and development through the entire design process including tool development and offshore manufacturing start up. I have designed or led the design and engineering of hundreds of products in multiple product categories including Pro Video and Pro Audio, Medical, Computer, Networking, Consumer and Industrial categories. In addition I have designed thousands of parts for injection molding, die casting, sheet metal and other processes designing or overseeing the creation of production molds, fixtures, sequence of events leading to pre-production and mass production. My experience includes the ability to create high quality renderings either by hand or using digital tools, concept sketches, advanced concept generation, complex surfacing using Pro Engineer and Solidworks and advanced conceptualization of electronic systems. Multiple international awards for Industrial Design and Product Design including IDSA, ID Magazine, CES, NAB Pick Hit, Emmy, Resi etc. ## Work Experience ### Director of Design @ ARGYLE DESIGN, INC. Jan 1983 – Present | Berkeley, California and Minneapolis, MN Industrial Design and Mechanical Engineering firm I founded originally in NYC, then re-established in California after moving here to work for Landor Associates. I've been the CEO and Design Director now for 42+ years and I still look forward every morning to come into work. We have a great team and really interesting projects- from both a design standpoint as well as from an engineering one- technically challenging but solutions that are aesthetically elegant. ### Industrial Designer @ Stealth LED Lighting Company Jan 2018 – Present | Berkeley, CA Chief Design Officer of a revolutionary LED lighting company developing solutions that will increase transportation safety. ### Principal Designer / Driver @ Team Fog Racing Jan 1997 – Present | Marin County, California Team Fog is a racing group that competes in a variety of venues, from SCCA regional and national events, AFM superbike motorcycle racing as well as fielding our Pitts S1S at the Reno National Championship Air Races. Team Fog also designs and develops specialized components for racing such as lightweight carbon fiber fairings and airboxes for competition as well as seating and other racing solutions. ### Industrial Designer @ Abekas Video Systems Jan 1990 – Jan 1998 | Redwood City, CA I was the retained Industrial Designer responsible for all new products from 1990 thru the acquisition of Abekas by Accom in 1998 where I continued as Consultant Industrial Designer for the next 5 years. During this time I designed award winning products such as the A-8100 Switcher, A-5100 DVEous digital Effects System and the A-6100 Diskus digital Disk Recorder. I performed much of the Mechanical Engineering for all these products as well as managing the manufacturing of many components in the U.K. and Taiwan. ### Senior Industrial Designer / Design Director / Partner @ Palo Alto Design Group Jan 1986 – Jan 1987 | Palo Alto, CA Sole Industrial Designer for PADG, becoming third partner in January 1987 before the partnership broke up. Wyse Technology became my prime responsibility as well as Gilbarco, Convergent Technologies, PCW Communications, Esselte Letraset as well as many other obscure Silicon Valley Start-Ups. ### Senior Product Designer (Consultant) @ InterForm Jan 1985 – Jan 1986 | Menlo Park, California Senior Product Designer working in both the Menlo Park office as well as working remotely in Grand Rapids, Michigan for a major SteelCase Office Environment program. Other clients that I worked with included RCA, Cloud Nine (Steve Wozniak), General Motors (Buick Division), Hayes, and others. ### Senior Industrial Designer @ Landor Associates Jan 1984 – Jan 1985 ### Senior Industrial Designer @ Teague Jan 1983 – Jan 1984 ### Industrial Designer / Project Manager @ Plumb Design Group Jan 1980 – Jan 1983 ## Education ### Aerospace in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering University of Washington Jan 1979 – Jan 1980 ### University of Minnesota Jan 1974 – Jan 1979 ### Fine Arts (Painting) Minneapolis College of Art and Design Jan 1974 – Jan 1978 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanburke1 - Website: http://www.argyle-design.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/jonathanburke JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jonathanburke/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-07