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Industrial Design
The Experience
The Results
Laura Hackbarth
Aaron Holder
David Chu
Jeremy Shamrowicz
Margaux Butzen
Grant Larson
Mike Samarzja
Robert Muerer
Peggy Brown

Jeremy Shamrowicz
An Urban Innovator.

  • graduated 1998, BFA double-major, Industrial Design + Sculpture, minored in Illustration
  • currently President + Co-Owner of Flux Design www.thinkflux.com

Jeremy Shamrowicz
Jeremy Shamrowicz

“Everybody comes to MIAD for the same reason, they’ve got a passion for creativity. We’ve simply found a way to keep that experience alive.”

“When I was a child, all I wanted to do was grow up; now that I’m an adult, all I want to do is be a child.“ An avid Star Wars and Lord of the Rings collector and outdoorsman, Jeremy Shamrowicz completed his MIAD degree with a double-major in Industrial Design and Sculpture. When asked how his MIAD education affected where he is today, Shamrowicz replied, “What I’ve gleaned from MIAD has been invaluable: the teachers, the students, the challenge and the competition.”

The Flux Team
The Flux Team
student work
student work

After graduation, “I committed myself to becoming self-employed. I was determined to spend night and day building my own life -- my living, my business, my family and friends.”

Shamrowicz signed a lease on a gallery space on North Water Street in the Historic Third Ward of Milwaukee. Jesse Meyer, a MIAD graduate and good friend of Shamrowicz, left his special-effects job in California, returning to Milwaukee to work with Shamrowicz on Gallery 326. For several months, they built an entirely new interior for the space while creating artwork and furniture for the gallery’s opening. Shamrowicz says, “In fact, the very first table we made used materials left over from some of my MIAD sculpture projects.” From this, Flux Design was born, and the company has continued to grow, gaining notoriety around the world.

student work
student work

Flux Design concepts, designs, fabricates, and installs interior and exterior elements for commercial and residential clients. In the five years since the company began, it has grown to over fifteen employees, with over half who are MIAD graduates. The company also employs several MIAD student interns on a regular basis. Recently, Flux moved into a 20,000 square-foot fabrication facility in the Riverworks Business Park in Milwaukee, WI.

furnishings for Eve restaurant + nightclub, Milwaukee, WI.
furnishings for Eve restaurant + nightclub, Milwaukee, WI.

When asked how he would like to change culture, Shamrowicz responded, “I would love to get people to understand that art is not something on a wall or on a pedestal. Art is everywhere. I would like to get everyone to take five minutes per day to recognize it; to see it all around them; to appreciate the little things.”

interior views of Eve.
interior views of Eve.

Places to see the work of Flux Design:

  • Vucciria Restaurant, Milwaukee, WI
  • Terrace Bar, Milwaukee, WI
  • Vivo Urban Grill, Milwaukee, WI
  • Velvet Room, Milwaukee, WI
  • Roots, restaurant, Milwaukee, WI
  • Sauce, restaurant, Milwaukee, WI
  • Crave, restaurant, Madison, WI
  • Pizza Shuttle, Milwaukee, WI
  • Ducati Cafe, Saukville, WI
  • Twisted Fork, restaurant, Milwaukee, WI
  • Eve, restaurant/nightclub, Milwaukee, WI
  • The Social, restaurant, Milwaukee, WI

interior views of Eve.
interior views of Eve.

Select businesses that Flux Design has worked or collaborated with:

  • Starbucks
  • Masterlock
  • Laughlin-Constable marketing firm
  • Zimmerman Design Group
  • Ducati Motorcycles
  • Boelter & Lincoln marketing firm
  • BOP clothing store
  • Cramer-Krasselt advertising/marketing firm

100 of the World’s Best Bars.
100 of the World’s Best Bars.

private commission; residential chandelier
private commission; residential chandelier

residential interior furnishing
residential interior furnishing



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