Ti Chang: Blending Art, Activism, and Design to Elevate Pleasure

As a Taiwanese-American immigrant, Ti Chang received her undergrad in Industrial Design from the Georgia Institute of Technology and her MA Design Products from the Royal College of Art in 2007. Returning to her alma mater, Ti will share her personal journey, reflect on her time at RCA, and her approach to creating unexpected juxtapositions that blend art, activism, and design for social impact.

Ti is widely recognized for elevating intimacy products with her ground-breaking pleasure jewellery, including her Vesper vibrator necklace launched in 2014, one of the most celebrated and iconic products changing the cultural conversation around pleasure.

As the co-founder and Chief Design Officer of CRAVE, a pleasure product house based in San Francisco, Ti leads the design vision for the company’s full line of products which have won international design awards –including Red Dot, Good Design, Fast Company’s Innovation By Design– and were among the first pleasure products to be adopted by mainstream retailers such as Nordstrom, Goop, Ulta.

She has collaborated with fashion icons such as Saint Laurent as well as Madonna on limited editions of her pleasure jewelry. Her advocacy for pleasure activism also earned her a feature in the award-winning 2020 documentary The Dilemma of Desire.

Ti has also been an advocate for improving gender representation in the industrial design industry by helping to establish Women in Design professional chapters in the largest Industrial Design organization in America (IDSA).