Tucker Viemeister builds design groups: as a founder of Smart Design (famous for Oxo “GoodGrips”), by opening frog design’s New York office, establishing Razorfish’s physical design capability group, by developing Springtime-USA, recently as lab chief at Rockwell Group, built a small research and development team into a teeming interactive business and is now president of Viemeister Industries headquartered in NYC. Clients include Apple, Coca-Cola, Cuisinart, Black & Decker, Remington, OXO, Viking, J&J, Timex, Levi’s, Phat Farm, Nestlé, Unilever, Motorola, Toshiba, Sharp, Seibu, Toyota, Nike, Knoll, Steelcase, Kate Spade, Cosmopolitan Casino, Yotel and the NYC Board of Education. His work is in MoMA and awards include the first Presidential Design Award. He taught at Pratt, Yale, Parsons and NYU. He is the Architectural League of New York’s vice president, Rowena Fund chair and an IDSA Fellow. He holds 32 US utility patents. Named after a car, he is a graduate of Pratt Institute.
Session Title:
Design = Realizing
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