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tucker viemeister, product designer

lab chief, rockwell group lab

Tucker Viemeister is the Lab Chief, heading research and development at Rockwell Group. The Lab encompasses digital interaction design, the material and image library, modeling and prototyping resources. The Lab impacts projects ranging from casinos, hotels and restaurants to packaging and products. Tucker also founded the collaborative Studio Red with David Rockwell, that was dedicated to innovation for Coca-Cola. He was a founder of Smart Design, where he helped design the widely acclaimed OXO GoodGrips kitchen tools. He also was president of Springtime-USA, a partnership with the Dutch industrial design company, and helped to found Razorfishs physical design capability and Frog designs New York office.

A graduate from Pratt Institute, Tucker has worked for clients like Apple, Corning, Gap, J&J, Jet Blue, P&G, McDonalds, Timex, Levis, Motorola, Vodaphone, Unilever, Coca-Cola, Nike, Toyota, Viking, and Kate Spade. He is on the Board of Directors of the Architectural League of New York, chair of the Rowena Reed Kostellow Fund, president of the International Design Network Foundation, and a Fellow of the Industrial Designers Society of America. He was called Guru by Business Week (8/97), scruffy brand-meister by the Architects Newspaper (2/06), dubbed Industrial Designs Elder Wunderkind when ID included him in Americas hottest 40, and New York Magazine selected him as a Living Design Innovator (10/29/07). He teaches at ITP at New York Universitys Tisch School for the Arts, holds 32 US Utility Patents, and was named after a car.

See tucker's presentation here.