Michelle Zatta is an industrial designer living in Brooklyn, specializing in furniture, toy, and product design. She believes that design is a means of weaving her creativity into the existing social fabric and has been interested in design since she spied her first Hello Kitty toy as a child. Her work is imbued with a sense of whimsy and humor, functionality, and has an analytic edge.

She holds a BFA in Industrial Design from Pratt Institute. She has worked with artist Jane Hammond and has designed products for Planet Product Toys, the Brooklyn Children's Museum, and Elseware Design, among others. Her work has also appeared in the book Bright Minds, Beautiful Ideas: Parallel Thoughts in Different Times.

Michelle is a member of the Gowanus Studio Space, a design/art collective in Brooklyn, where she is the Design Director of the annual GSS Jell-O Mold Competition. She has an unnatural love of Hello Kitty, and has been known to carry pot-roasts in her purse—to hardcore shows.

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