Anthony Reale

Industrial Designer, Strait Power

Panelist - 10:45 am, Wednesday, April 6th – Upstarts! Industrial transformation in action: The creative economy at work in manufacturing and mass production

Born in Dearborn Michigan to Italian immigrants Anna and Virginio Reale, Anthony has spent his life learning, creating, and designing in southeastern Michigan.  Growing up and living in blue-collar southeastern Michigan, Anthony has experienced the rise and fall of the steel and auto industry.  Starting his college education at Wayne State University’s College of Engineering, he laid the foundation for understanding the physics of motion.  At age 20, he started an internship with a six-billion-dollar corporation, where in six years he moved from intern to designer, to design engineer, to new product introduction engineer.  During his six years he was awarded six US patents: cylinder liner remover method; cylinder liner remover apparatus, pneumatic/hydraulic tube flaring tool apparatus and method, headlight lens cleaning apparatus and method, microwave component heating method and apparatus: and microwave component heating method.  Over 600 of his designs made it to production during his 6 years.

Leaving the engineering world, Anthony started his art and design careers in 2007 and graduated with a product design degree from the College for Creative Studies in 2010.  In February 2011, Anthony held his first art show to support his latest green energy idea, Strait Power, a shark-inspired method for improving the efficiency of fluid flow.