Dmitriy Shakhmatov, Chris Colangelo
Background
Dmitriy Shakhmatov — Dmitriy Shakhmatov is design manager of Hot Wheels' die-cast line. According to a 2018 interview, he started at the brand about four and a half years earlier (around 2013–2014), brought in by a friend who was already a designer at the company for a Star Wars line project. The most prominent work cited in the interview is a full-size X-Wing displayed at Comic-Con 2016.
Chris Colangelo — Christopher R. Colangelo is a Hot Wheels designer, at Mattel since 2013 (after an internship at the company). Before that, he worked at Wham-O Toys, Jakks Pacific and Crayola. He was design lead for lines such as Hot Wheels Mario Kart, playsets and Star Wars Starships and San Diego Comic-Con exclusives, and worked on other licenses, such as DC.
