Zoe Mowat is a Canadian designer, currently living in New York. She works in the field of product design and focuses on material-driven creations. In 2010 she opened her own studio, where she takes a sculptural and intuitive approach to contemporary design. Mowat not only aims to design beautiful products but she also harnesses a desire to create functional objects.
Mowat has taught design at Pratt and Parsons School of Design in New York and lectured at RISD and SAIC, among other institutions. She is also a member of the Decorative Arts acquisition committee at the Musée de Beaux Arts in Montreal. Her work has been displayed at exhibitions around the globe and she won the 2015 Surface Magazine Endorsement Award for Furniture Design.
"What I’m trying to solve when designing is intuitive and twofold: I’m working towards achieving some kind of wholeness, a resolution of form, color, and material. Which is a bit like a puzzle. And then it’s about having it fit into life somehow—proportionally, conceptually, and by connecting to lived experience in some way." - Zoë Mowat