Miles has over twenty years of professional experience as an industrial designer. His company, Dystil, is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and provides services in all facets of the design process. Clients have included Allseating, Bodybilt, BMO, Corning Glass, 4iiii Technology, ergoCentric, Herman Miller, Keilhauer, Nienkamper, Teknion, The Getty Museum, Umbra, ZAK Ad Agency, and Zenon Environmental. He has a degree in industrial design from the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCADU) and a BA from the University of Calgary. He has also studied architecture at the University of British Columbia.
He has served on the boards of the both the Financial Post Design Effectiveness Awards and the Humane Village international design conference. Miles was also president of the Association of Chartered Industrial Designers of Ontario (ACIDO) for four years (1996- 2000). He has been a member of the faculty at The Institute Without Boundaries (IWB) and The Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCADU), where he teaught industrial design at the undergraduate level.
Miles is one of Canada’s most highly regarded industrial designers and his work has been widely recognized, including the ID Magazine Annual Design Review (1989), theIDEA Awards (1997,2005), the Virtu Canadian Design Awards (1995, 6, 7, 8, 9),the IIdex/NeoCon Canada Awards (2002), the Best of Canada Design Awards (2002), the Good Design Award (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005) and most recently, The German Design Awards. He’s been covered widely in print as well as appearing on TV with the Dini Petty Show and Breakfast Television.
In 2006,MKDA received a silver IDEA award, as well as a silver Design Exchange Award, for the “ZW1000 municipal water filtration system” by Zenon Environmental. The IDEA awards, sponsored by the Industrial Designers Society of America and BusinessWeek, are recognised as “the world’s most prestigious and coveted design accolade”. More recent awards include a silver Design Exchange Award for MMA sports equipment by Reevo, an Azure Magazine AZ Award for the much published Kona lounge chair and a recent best of show for the Cayuga outdoor bench system. And last but not least, the recently introduced t-Centric chair by ergoCentric is now one of the best selling office chairs in North America.