Meet the Designer
Annie
Gao
Industrial Design
“Designer focused on how objects shape human behavior, emotion, and experience.”

Artist and industrial designer whose practice exists between functional design and conceptual art. Working across sculpture, installation, ceramics, jewelry, and spatial design, her work explores the psychological relationships people form with objects, materials, and environments. Drawing from research in consumer culture, sustainability, behavioral psychology, and architecture, she creates work that examines how designed spaces and objects subtly shape identity, emotion, and behavior.
Ideation Sketching 3D Prototyping Fabrication Branding
2025, Ken Rodmell Bursary Fund
OCAD U
2021, Mariko Miyazaki Entrance Scholarship
OCAD U
