ABOUT ME

THE STORY
I started tinkering and making from a very young age. I have an insatiable curiosity for life and learning. These two things ultimately led me to industrial design. Though I have grown up, I’m still tinkering, creating amazing things, and trying to satisfy my curiosity and intellectual wanderlust.

HOW DID I GET HERE?
Good question, I'd like to think it was series of good decisions, but it was more likely luck combined with really hard work. Oh, and a good education from a great design program is always helpful.

SO, WHAT IS IT THAT I DO?
In short: I design amazing stuff. I do it by asking lots of questions, working day and night, and staying focused on solving the problem. It's all design, all the time. Sometimes it's a museum exhibit, sometimes its a brand identity, and sometimes it's an awesome product that actually helps a real person.

MY FAVORITE QUOTE
Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order over a given problem.
—Victor Papaneck

BIO
Jared Arp, IDSA, is a product designer who has launched and consulted for startups and founded a design consultancy, is currently a faculty member at the University of Colorado, where he instructs product design.​ He is a former outside adviser and guest lecturer for Venture Accelerator Program at Colorado State University, where he consulted with students and new startups about their design positioning, design challenges, and paths to manufacturing. 

MONKII.CO, a company Jared co-founded, has raised over $4M on Kickstarter and Indiegogo campaigns with ​4 unique active lifestyle products, first with MONKII BARS 2, a gym you can take anywhere; then with POCKET MONKII, and then again with the launch of MONKII 360. 

Jared is also a seasoned interpretative planner and museum exhibition designer and has designed exhibitions both domestic and international. He has designed exhibitions and galleries for the San Diego Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of Art, Missouri History Museum, Monticello, and the Liberation War Museum in Dhaka, Bangladesh, among others. He is currently consulting and grant-planning for a 400th Anniversary exhibition​n in Key West, Florida, about a 1622 Spanish shipwreck laden with treasure.

Jared is currently researching and preparing for a lecture for the 2022 Ephemera Society of America Conference exploring how midcentury advertising of modern furniture shaped our homes, politics, and even our world today.

Jared lives just outside Boulder, Colorado.