About Us
Co-founded by Erich and Anna-Pia Slothower, Deap Design has been in business for over 20 years.
Erich Slothower
A curious, hands-on thinker who moves easily between design, engineering and market insight, Erich loves digging into how things work and how new concepts can be made. Erich uses that mix of detail and big picture thinking to help companies uncover opportunities and innovate.
After graduating from design school, Erich has followed his passion for designing better products and discovering processes that make them possible, from California to the Midwest, and back. With companies like Kallista, Kohler and Williams-Sonoma, Erich has helped drive large projects strategically, with a strong mechanical aptitude and a rebellious mind as his tools.
Anna-Pia Slothower
Fueled by creativity and a passion for functional objects, Anna-Pia leads design projects and ideas to delight the user.
In her design language, Anna-Pia blends bold forms, practicality and a sprinkle of surprise to bring meaningful and exciting contributions into the physical world.
“I think of the first impression and how to create a sense of “wow”, how to make something work smoothly and how to build it. This puzzle of physical and emotional requirements is what I love about design.”
Knowing early on that a profession in the field of design was her calling, Anna-Pia moved from her native Sweden to Paris at the age of 19 to attend design school and start her career. After ten years in France, Anna-Pia moved to the United States continuing as an in-house designer in several design-focused companies, before starting her own design firm in 2004, which became Deap Design in 2007.