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View Larger Image and Additional Photos of Gueston SmithAbout Gueston Smith : Gueston Smith is a multidisciplinary designer, entrepreneur, and founder of Guesscreative LLC, a spatial innovation studio specializing in movable architecture, modular structures, and mobile business environments. His work bridges design, technology, and strategy to create adaptive spaces that generate economic and cultural value. A Certified Professional Building Designer and two-time A’Design Award winner, Gueston’s portfolio spans education, wellness, and commercial sectors. Through Guesscreative, he advances a new model of spatial entrepreneurship that merges ownership, mobility, and design intelligence to empower individuals and organizations to operate with freedom and purpose.
Design and art are not separate disciplines to me, they are acts of alignment. Design is how intention becomes operational; art is how truth becomes perceptible. Both fail when they perform instead of function. I believe design begins before form, in clarity of thought, discipline, and relationship to constraint. You cannot out-design confusion; you can only hide it. Art is not decoration or self-indulgent expression, it is signal. It reveals power, dignity, and possibility, reorganizing how people see themselves within the world. My work sits at the intersection of movement, ownership, and systems, creating environments meant to be used, tested, relocated, and lived in. Constraints are the engine, not the enemy. Craft, coherence, and utility reveal themselves quietly over time. I design for people in motion, building real things, who need their environment to become agency rather than overhead because when design carries responsibility and art carries truth, freedom compounds.
ORGANIZATION:
Guesscreative LLC
NON-DESIGN OCCUPATION:
Architectural or civil drafter Construction, fittings, housing
EDUCATION:
Bachelor's of Architecture 15'
University of Southern California
Los Angeles CA
EXPERIENCE:
2017-Present
Founder / Spatial Entrepreneur
Guesscreative LLC
2019 - 2025
Head of Design & Operations
Kubed Living
2015-2019
Facilities Engineer II
Raytheon Company
PRIVATE EXHIBITIONS:
2024, "Cerritos College Facilities Storage Unit", Cerritos College, Los Angeles/USA.
PRESS APPEARANCES:
2023, "Meet Gueston Smith", Canvas Rebel, https://canvasrebel.com/meet-gueston-smith/, September, Los Angeles / USA
2023, Destination LA: Season 3, CBS, Roku, United States
BOOKS:
2023, "From Box To Home: The Transformative Journey of Converting Shipping Containers into Livable Spaces", 94 pages, Katalina Klein, Samantha Dier, Los Angeles / California, ISBN9798862881257
LANGUAGE SKILLS:
English, Native. French, Pre-Intermediate.
COMPUTER LITERACY:
Adobe Illustrator, Advanced. AutoCAD, Expert. Google Sketchup, Advanced. Chat GPT, Claude AI, Google Gemini, Advanced.
COURSES, SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS::
2021, "Entrepreneurship Essentials", Harvard Business School Online, Los Angeles / USA.
2017, "Pensole Footwear Design Camp",
Pensole Kicks Footwear Design Academy, Portland / USA.
MEMBERSHIPS & ASSOCIATIONS:
2024, AIBD, Los Angeles/USA. 2023, AIA, Los Angeles/USA.
HOBBIES:
Basketball, Jeet Kune Do, Trampolines / Tumbling, Rope Courses, Fashion, Traveling & Connecting to Ancient Cultures, Car Customization, Reading Non Fiction.
CLIENTELE:
2025, SOAR SPORTS, Conceptualized, Designed, Engineered & Fabricated a Mobile Sports Retail Trailer that transports the materials for a full pop up basketball court.
2024, Cerritos College, Conceptualized, Designed, Engineered & Fabricated a custom shipping container kiosk.
2022, CISE LLC, Conceptualized, Designed, Engineered & Fabricated a Luxury Mobile Retail Trailer.
2019-2025, Kubed Living, Conceptualized, Designed, Engineered & Fabricated 8+ Custom Shipping Container Homes, ADUs & Wine Tasting Bars.
WEB SITE:
https://www.guesscreative.com/
PORTFOLIO URL:
https://www.guesscreative.com/
REGISTRATION DATE:
2021-02-02 16:32:07
COUNTRY/REGION:
United States of America
ACCOUNT TYPE:
Professional
Awards received by Gueston Smith
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Magic School Box Mobile Smart Classroom Bronze A' Design Award Winner for Education, Teaching Aid and Training Content Design Category in 2023 Gueston Smith for Guesscreative Llc |
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