Spencer Nugent is a Jamaican-born creator and educator currently based in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is the founder of Sketch-A-Day.com and has been providing free, high-quality online design sketching tutorial content and on-site sketch workshops since 2008. He has created an extensive online network and following within the Industrial Design community and continues to connect with students and design professionals via his online properties. With his live YouTube streams, he continues to share his passion for creating and drawing on “Sketch-A-Day LIVE” as well as the Sketch-a-Day Instagram and TikTok accounts.

Spencer’s professional experience includes working at General Motors in Michigan, San Francisco-based design firm Astro Studios, heading up his own design consultancy, Studio Tminus, where he worked with several clients primarily in the consumer electronics and apparel industries. Spencer has worked with brands such as Microsoft, Intel, Hewlett Packard, BodyGlove, Adidas, Verifone, Kyocera Altec Lansing, Hasbro, Dell, Tupperware, Motorola, and Vivint Smart Home. Spencer has led workshops and presentations for many higher educational institutions and corporate clients including designers at Adidas HQ, Herzogenaurach Germany, Apple Retail, LG, Adobe MAX, and frequently presents on Adobe Live on Behance.net.

In 2020, Spencer was awarded the Industrial Design Society of America’s individual achievement award for his consistent work and passion related to industrial design education related to producing online educational content. Most recently, Spencer has been running his creative design lab, 5050.design, where half his time is dedicated to personal projects and the other to client work.