Scott Robertson was born in Oregon and grew up in the country. As a child his artist father, Richard, taught him how to draw and design the toys in his imagination. Fascinated by speed, he and his father designed and built soapbox derby cars. At the age of 14, Robertson finished sixth in the world at the annual race in Akron, Ohio. In 1984 he attended Oregon State University, where he studied all that he could while preparing his portfolio for application to Art Center.

After two and a half years at Oregon State, Robertson transferred to Art Center College of Design, where his father had attended as an illustration student before him. After many all-nighters and skin-thickening critiques, Robertson graduated with honors with a B.S. degree in Transportation Design in April 1990. He immediately opened a consulting firm in San Francisco, where he designed a variety of consumer products, the majority being durable medical goods and sporting goods. He began teaching at Art Center College of Design in 1995, first with a year-and-a-half stint at Art Center Europe in Vevey, Switzerland (now closed), and then in Pasadena, California.

In the years since returning from Europe, his clients have included the BMW subsidiary Design-works/USA, Bell Sports, Raleigh Bicycles, Mattel Toys, Spin Master Toys, Patagonia, Scifi Lab, Minority Report feature film, Nike, Rock Shox, Universal Studios, OVO, Black Diamond, Angel Studios, Rockstar Games, Sony Online Entertainment, Buena Vista Games and Fiat to name just a few.

Dedicated to art and design education, he founded the publishing company Design Studio Press in 2002. The company's first book, Concept Design, printed in 2003 and featured within Car Styling edition #155, is a collection of original artwork by seven of the top concept artists working in Hollywood. Its follow-up book, Concept Design 2, is currently in its second printing. Other books published by his company can be found on their website www.designstudiopress.com.

Having designed a wide variety of wheelchairs, bicycles and helmets, it's hard to walk down the street without seeing some of the products Robertson has designed zooming by. In 2004 he art directed 240 illustrations for Mattel's Hot Wheels AcceleRacers collectible card game. He also authored the book, How to Draw Cars the Hot Wheels Way. As a way to further design, drawing and rendering education, Design Studio Press teamed with The Gnomon Workshop to create a library of "how to" DVDs. Robertson himself instructed on nine DVDs, focusing on drawing and rendering techniques for industrial and entertainment designers. He co-produced an additional 41 DVDs with various top artists, designers, and instructors, including Syd Mead. To view all of the titles currently available, visit www.thegnomonworkshop.com.

To date, Robertson's company, Design Studio Press, has published 24 titles on art and design, with 9 of these titles having been translated into Japanese by the publisher Born Digital. Over the coming year Design Studio Press will release 10 new book titles, several of which feature new intellectual properties, which Robertson is working to option to various entertainment partners to be developed into games, movies and toys. He is also a founding member of www.HollywoodConceptDesign.com, a group of entertainment designers specifically seeking exciting new opportunities in the Japanese market.

Robertson is serving as Chair of the new entertainment design department, as he continues to teach at Art Center College of Design, work as a design consultant to the entertainment industry, and act as president of Design Studio Press. He is married to film editor Melissa Kent.