Adam Saleh is a Designhead
"Anti-disciplinary" designer and founder of modular wearable ecosystem Presq answers our Designheads Qs
Advanced manufacturing keeps popping up on our radar here at Designheads. Just as relevant for home objects as it is for fashion, new and emerging processes for fabrication have captured our attention and continue to keep us intrigued years after the explosion of the 3D printing industry. Adam Saleh, founder of Presq — an advanced manufacturing label making futuristic footwear — is helping to lead the charge into this brave new world. We asked the “anti-disciplinary” designer to send answers to our recurring Designheads’ questionnaire — read on below.
Age: 23
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Sign: Cancer
IG: @almost_adam @presq.studio
Are you a designhead + what does that mean to you? I'm a designhead till the grave. Abstractly, it means being an intentional communicator — someone who takes time to experience new contexts to use as a tool to express themselves more completely.
The last thing you made: a 3D printed toy shoe
The next thing you want to make: A zen garden 3D printer
A design object you love: Pyer Moss Experiment 4 (green)
A design object you can’t stand the sight of: anti-homeless bus benches
A moment of pure creative joy: The first time I ever used Gravity Sketch on the Oculus Quest
What does it mean to “design the future”? The future has always felt like an exercise in community building to me — using Star Trek as a reference, it feels like designing places and spaces where collaboration and co-production are the top priority.
Words to live by: “A designer’s greatest tool is context” or “ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find…”
Your aesthetic approach embodied as a ...
Color: orange
Texture: brushed
Natural Material: mycelium
Synthetic Material: aluminum (although not synthetic?) maybe TPE (thermoplastic elastomer)
If you could show your work to anyone in the world, it would be: Samuel Ross