Bruce Tharp is an award-winning, Chicago-based product designer and educator. His practice includes licensing furniture, furnishings and consumer product ideas to companies like Ligne Roset, Moet-Hennessy, Crate&Barrel, Kikkerland and Design Ideas. In addition to a doctorate and master’s in sociocultural anthropology from the University of Chicago, Tharp received a master’s of industrial design from Pratt Institute and a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering from Bucknell University. Presently he is an associate professor and graduate program chair at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has lectured, exhibited and published nationally and internationally. Before teaching, he worked in the contract furniture industry within Haworth’s think-tank, the Ideation group, helping to bridge the gap between research on the built environment and implementable design solutions.
Session Title:
Discursive Design: Brand-building, User Research and Entrepreneurship
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