Happy Monday! Our latest Quirk of the Week, Michael Cavada (pictured here with his lovely wife Clare), joined our awesome community last fall and we just can’t help falling for him. In addition to being ideator of The Space Bar, Mike has influenced fifty products in every stage of development, from eval to industrial design to logo design and beyond. That’s a heck of a lot of products, but it doesn’t stop there. Mike has enthusiastically shared the Quirky process with fellow teachers who were then inspired to create a curriculum to teach kids how to create product designs and develop them into actual products. He’s helping to shape the next generation of Quirklings!
Mike shares the story of his father, who lost an arm during WWII. “Growing up as a child, I really took his handicap for granted. One day as a teen, while trying to complete a task in his presence, I got frustrated and gave up. He stepped up and said, I’ll do it, and he did just that. Wow! Since then I knew, I could do anything, if I just kept trying.”
Wow, indeed. Learning lessons from the past and helping to shape the future, our Mike Cavada is a man for all times!
