Zachary Samalonis

Zachary Samalonis is an industrial designer based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Jefferson University — formerly Philadelphia University — in 2020 with a concentration in medical design, and has since worked as an industrial designer at Phase One Design, a multidisciplinary firm, on products that range from small houseware items to industrial and medical equipment.

His work centres on accessibility: a grandfather who lived with Parkinson’s shaped an empathetic approach to problems of use. That led to Swell, a prosthetic foot for amputee surfers, which won a 2021 IDEA Gold Award and first place at the Core77 Design Excellence Awards. His portfolio also includes Gaitmate, Artisanat and client work developed under NDA at Phase One.