Unreasonable Mentors
Tom De Blasis
a designer that believes this world isn't finished, because our only problems are ones that we've created...therefore we can solve them as we re-design our world
Tom is an Unreasonable Mentor. Tom has participated in 2 programs, including Unreasonable GOALS 2018, and has advised over 27 Unreasonable companies.
Tom believes that this world isn’t finished, that the only problems we have are problems that we’ve created either unintentionally or intentionally by design.
Tom is an industrial designer and the founder of ATMOSPHERICAL, a social innovation design practice that is determined to impact the world’s toughest problems by designing solutions that work at the scale of the need. Previously he was the Global Design Innovation Director at the Girl Effect / NIKE Foundation, where he led the creation of tools that millions of girls in poverty around the world have used to unleash their potential and create the Girl Effect. Prior to that Tom served as a NIKE Global Design Director for Football (Soccer), leading the creation of products that have reached an estimated 2B people, exploring how sport can be a game changing force for social good, and leading NIKE’s disaster response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
Tom is the creator of the TAB KIT, a radically accessible household rainwater harvesting system, and of the Gamechanger Bucket, a disaster response health and happiness kit. These two simple tools have brought clean water to tens of thousands of people in desperate need across more than 10 countries, including Haiti, Brazil, Bolivia, Uganda, India, Bangladesh and Nepal.
