POD DESIGN+MEDIA LLC™ NY/TX - design like you mean it

Brooks Taliaferro Atwood Brooks Atwood is co-founder and principal of POD Design + Media a multi-disciplinary design laboratory and think-tank. Atwood is also an Assistant Professor of Industrial Design in the School of Art+Design and Assistant Director of the FabLab in the College of Architecture and Design at NJIT. Professor Atwood attended the L'Ecole de L'Architecture in France, graduated valedictorian with a Bachelor of Architecture Degree from Illinois Institute of Technology and received a Master of Science of Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University. Professor Atwood has been the recipient of numerous awards including the AIA Scholarship Award for Excellence and the AIA Certificate of Merit Award. He has collaborated on several award-winning art and sculpture installations around the world including Korea, Germany, England and in New York City and Chicago. Brooks' work is part of the permanent collection at the Samsung Museum of Art in Seoul, Korea. Brooks has been featured in such publications as The New York Times, Advocate Home Design, Architectural Record, New York Magazine, Lucky Magazine and has appeared on CBS 2HD News and ABC News for his Listening Studio project at The Center for Hearing and Communication. Yanko Design Magazine ranked Brooks' design for his silverware #2 among the most creative designs. Mr. Atwood was selected as one of the first Idea Factory residents at NJIT and is currently one of the designers for the original Showtime program, "SHO House", which will air in Fall 2010. .
Clay Odom Co-founder Clay holds two advanced degrees in Architecture and Design. He received his Master of Architecture at Texas Tech University. He received his Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University GSAPP. He was an adjunct professor of Architecture at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and currently teaches Architecture and Drawing at the University of Texas at Arlington. Before forming POD DESIGN+MEDIA he worked with such renowned architects as Studio Sofield, SHoP Architects, KDLab and Curtis Group Architects.
Eric Behr Assistant Director of Design: Feb 2010 - current Eric, the resident kick ball pro is always on the ball (no pun intended). He can jump like nobody's business and has the second best hair in the office. Eric can't sit still; something about ants but no one wants to actually find out. He is the first full time employee at POD and we think he's working on an invisibility spell. good luck with that!
Lindsay Kunz Architecture Intern: June 2010 - current Lindsay, a.k.a. Cookie, is not from around here. She has never seen any movies, not a one. She says she can dance but no one has actually witnessed any body movements that might resemble dancing. She eats everything in the office and is proned to furious fits of rage.
Avrami Rakovsky Industrial Design Intern: Summer 2010 Avrami, if that's his real name, has two speeds; fast and fast. He's a foam wizzard, loves to 'pack-a-lunch' and wishes he could fly.
Adam Brillhart Digital Design Director: Fall 2009 Adam comes in many packages and has great ears. He speaks like he's from Europe but we don't think he is but who really knows. Adam travels around with his life in his backpack.
Chris Palac Project Designer: Fall 2009 Chris is from a unknown country between England, Germany, Vienna and Brooklyn. He's very tall and well known in the scene.
Tobias Jahn Design & Research Director: Winter 2008 - Spring 2009 Tobias is from Germany. He says many things that we don't understand. Not a clue. None. But he likes to dance so that makes him "ok" with us! Plus, we just can't get enough of his violin recitals and his red, v-neck, hooded sweatshirt and his unforgettable motto, "One lady at a time". Tobias is in the house, the house of Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany. get a bike!
Cynthia Montalvan Intern: Summer 2008, Summer 2007 Cynthia is a unique designer who likes to use macaroni as an essential building material. She likes to take long walks along the beach while singing latino pop songs. Cynthia believes that food is essential for life and that water is the most powerful of all things.
Anirudh "Rich" Dhawan Intern: Winter 2007, Summer 2007 Rich has a way with words and stays up late dreaming of new ways not to trip and fall. He is always looking for excuses to going to the dentist to get root canals and likes butterflies and fireflies. He drinks more iced coffee's than the entire office and thinks recycling is the 'bomb'.
Steven Santander Intern: Winter 2007, Summer 2008 Steven thinks he's an animal and likes to climb trees and play in the rain. He is constantly asking questions about the universe and likes to take baths in carrot juice.
Stephanie Oliveria Intern: Summer 2008 Stephanie is little but 'things' BIG. she even has a big head and likes to talk really loud like if she is a giant. She just completed her hypnosis training and has all of us running around like farm animals. bwa-kwawk!!!!
Aimee Mariano Intern: Summer 2008 Aimee is super! She likes drum circles and pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey. She doesn't speak English but uses body gestures to communicate her designs. She recently won a gold medal for her sunglasses. If you need a spring roll, she's your woman.