Our Team
Tony Baxter
Tony has over 25 years experience in industrial design and is a founding partner of CURVE ID. His work has garnered several design awards including an IDEA award for the Nike Vapor, a Red Dot award and multiple design patents. He is also MD of Mint Design, which produces a range of stylish home ware. He loves almost any product on Fab.com, with a steady stream of black and white boxes arriving. Remembering his UK roots, he’s also partial to anything featuring a Union Jack.
Alberto Mantilla
Alberto has over 25 years experience in industrial design and is a founding partner of CURVE ID. He has won many design awards including two IDEA awards, ID Magazine’s ‘Design Distinction’ and a Colombian Lapiz de Acero, in addition to being listed in TIME Magazine’s ‘Best Designs of the Year’. Alberto’s passion is encouraging and promoting product design in his home country of Colombia, where he has an active role advising Government bodies and education institutions.
Eduardo Cárdenas
Eduardo is a passionate Colombian artist, Industrial designer and Engineer. His Product Design Engineering background gives him a unique perspective that he uses to experiment with the boundaries between art and design. He blends his artistic skills with innovative technologies to approach his work in a new and unexpected way. Doing design by day, art by night, and playing soccer on the weekends, he always keeps himself motivated, allowing for big ideas to grow into extraordinary projects.
Andrew Hodgson
Andrew is a Canadian industrial designer born and raised just outside of Toronto. Moving to New York to expand his horizons, Andrew uses his passion for design to problem solve, discover, and improve the world around him. With a diverse and multidisciplinary portfolio of work, Andrew draws inspiration from a broad range of past experiences and brings this knowledge to each project he undertakes. Outside of design, Andrew is a competitive cyclist, taking part in the thriving race scene in and around New York.
Paul Elhardt
Paul has a diverse background as a Mechanical Engineer (BSME), Designer, Stress Analyst, and CAD Consultant with 17 years industry experience across consumer products, sporting goods, medical products, operator stations, automotive, transit, heavy equipment, recreational and compact utility vehicles. His familiarity with various manufacturing processes allows him to take a holistic approach toward new product development. Paul has personally designed and detailed enough components to total over 60million dollars worth of tooling.
Jim Weitz
Jim Graduated with BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art. In the thirty years since, he has designed Medical Equipment, Consumer Goods, Cosmetic packaging and Industrial equipment. By far, his greatest expertise lies in slow moving vehicles in the Materials Handling, Agricultural, Mining, Construction and Residential Lawn Equipment industries. Jim can often be found during the warmer months sailing the Hudson River and New York Harbor.