Background
Scott Robertson was born in Minnesota and grew up in Plymouth.
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At the age of 14, Scott finished sixth in the world at the annual race in Akron, Ohio. In 1984 he attended Oregon State University.
Career
Robertson is a graduate of Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California where he is the current program director of Entertainment Design. Fascinated by speed, he and his father designed and built soapbox derby cars. In addition to his studies, he was on the rowing team in the bow position.
After two and a half years at Oregon State, Scott transferred to Art Center College of Design, where his father had attended before him.
He graduated with honors with a Bachelor of Surgery degree in Transportation Design in April 1990. Soon they were designing a variety of consumer products, the majority being durable medical goods and sporting goods.
Clients included Everest and Jennings, Kestrel, Giro Sport Design, Nissan, Volvo, Yamaha, Scott United States of America, Schwinn, and Medical Composite Technology. In 1995 both Scott and Neville relocated to Vevey, Switzerland to teach drawing and industrial design at Art Center, Europe.
Upon the closing of American Council on Exercise in the middle of 1996 they relocated to Los Los Angeles
Scott continues to share a studio with Neville where they do consulting work for a wide range of clients. Over the last seven years since returning from Europe, Scott’s clients have included Bayerische Motoren Werke subsidiary Design-works/United States of America, Bell Sports, Raleigh Bicycles, Mattel Toys, Patagonia, Scifi Laboratory, 3DO, the feature film Minority Report, Nike, Troxel, Rock Shox, Universal Studios, OVO, Black Diamond, Angel Studios and Fiat. Scott is married to film editor Melissa Kent and they live in Culver City.
