Hello, my name is Igor Chak. I was born on July 17 1984, in a far eastern city of Vladivostok. At the age of 5 my family has moved to live in Tokyo Japan. This is where everything begins for me. I spent 5 years roaming the streets of Shibuya, Yoyogi park Shinjuku and etc .Growing up in Japan has immersed me in to a fascinating culture, people, technologies, understanding what is respect and honor. This is when I started to look at life from a different point of view, from an artist’s point of view. I’ve been one of those kids that was never bored, I could sit in a chair for hours either drawing, sculpting or just wondering in my own thoughts… at the age of seven I got really involved in making clay sculptures. I had a great ability to almost exactly interpret what I had in my imagination and we all know how wild, fascinating and unpredictable a child’s imagination can be. My work got noticed and I even had my own exhibition displayed in Tokyo. Thanks to my parents that love to travel and seek new adventures I have traveled throughout the whole beautiful but very mystical Country.

At the age of ten my parents have moved back to Vladivostok, Russia.  It was quite a shock to move from one of the safeties countries in the world to a post soviet Russia. But it was home and I had to live trough the best of it. Three years later my family was on the move again, this time to a northwestern city in the US called Seattle.

Seattle was my third home, throughout the years I got really interested in how products that we consume work. It began with taking things apart and putting them together, then making them better by modifying them… I can’t say it worked most of the time but as people say it’s not the end result but the process of development and of course I never stopped drawing and sculpting with clay…

This interest of how things work gave me a clear path into what I wanted to do with my life. After I graduated high school I got accepted to the Art Institute of Seattle majoring in Industrial design, where I have spent time studying things such as art, design and model making. Two and a half years later I have graduated from the Art Institute of Seattle with a brought knowledge of the design world and was ready to face the world.

My first career job has brought me to the far lands of Salt Lake City, Utah, where I have worked as a model maker and got my first experience as a designer. Working with a talented team I have quickly picked up the skills and tools of a product design industry.

After about six month I was eager to learn new things and grow my skill, so I have decided to move to the sunny Los Angeles, California where I got a job as a model maker. Throughout a month I have picked up the finishing departments techniques of paint and finish that I was promoted to head the department.  A couple of month later I got an opportunity to fill a position in an advanced prototyping department at Nokia inc. Turned out that that opportunity was right for me and I got employed as a prototyping specialist at Nokia inc. Throughout the years in Nokia I have soaked in an enormous amount of skill and information to develop myself as a designer. While at Nokia I have met very talented and intelligent people that have mentored me and opened my eyes on how the world engages with technology and design.

While working at Nokia, I started taking evening classes at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California to improve my early passion that was motorcycle design and it was something I started to get good at.
Two and a half years later I decided to pursue my dream in motorcycle design and started to work on my portfolio in that direction.

My fascination with motorcycles is not purely aesthetics… it’s the machine within the aesthetics, a part of technology that you interact with.
Our streets stay about the same size but become more populated, which means pollution and traffic. That’s why I believe that a motorcycle and its evolution will become a key in the commuter world.

Nowadays my fascination with design has grown into every possible direction, from furniture to product design. My goal is to become a “universal” designer that can take any idea and create an elegant peace of art from that.

My design philosophy
I believe in a well developed, elegant design that has a story, with history and passion to it. A design that is simple, clean and user friendly.