Gelardi Design is a Maine-based product design and engineering company founded by artist and industrial designer Anthony Gelardi. Over the past fifty years, Gelardi has been innovating and creating in Southern Maine inspired by its landscape, people, and rich industrial history. Gelardi Design has offered a spectrum of large-scale manufacturing solutions to fortune 500 companies and curated bespoke sculptural pieces for local businesses.
The gallery and gift shop-ready wearable sculpture and home decor collections are a marriage of natural and synthetic materials made by hand, by Anthony and his family, in his Maine-based studio. Gelardi Design also offers retail products to address a cause near and dear to the Gelardi family’s heart – the prevention of Lyme disease, the silent tick epidemic. Visit Tac-Ticks.com to learn more.
Anthony L. Gelardi, 81, is a 55-year veteran of business, product design and manufacturing. Born in the U.S.A., he lived in Hawaii, Africa, Europe and China prior to attending college at Rhode Island School of Design. He attended graduate school at Cranbrook Academy, and was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in 1964 to study plastics design and manufacturing in Milan, Italy.
He started his first company, SHAPE, Inc, in 1973 – 1987, with his brother, Paul. Shape manufactured and sold products that he and his brother invented. Shape achieved sales of $226,000,000 in 1986 and employed 3,000 people, operating out of five plants in the U.S.A., one in South America, and one in Wales. The combined plants ran over 260 molding machines twenty-four hours per day, seven days per week. Shape was known worldwide for its superior product design and quality. Since 1966, he has received over one hundred patents.
GELARDI DESIGN, LLC continues to innovate, invent, patent, manufacture and sell his designs in the U.S.A.