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Industrial Design Workshop

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BFA, Pratt Institute

Biography

Tucker is President of Springtime-USA. Springtime, founded in Amsterdam, is a global strategic consultancy delivering conceptual industrial design, 3D engineering, prototyping and production supervision for clients like Heineken, Nike, Toyota, and PTTPost (the Dutch postal service) and also Coca-Cola with the Rockwellgroup. Tucker helped found some important design organizations: frogdesign NY, Razorfish, Smart Design (where he helped design the widely-acclaimed Oxo "GoodGrips" universal kitchen tools), and now Springtime USA. Check out: www.Springtime-USA.com

For 17 years he was busy at Smart Design helping to create products, packages, environments, branding, and graphics that fulfill economic, ergonomic and psychonomic needs; and lots of comfortable, practical, profitable, and fun stuff. In 1997 he organized and opened frogdesign's New York multi-disciplinary studio. From 1999 to 2001, as Executive Vice President, Research & Development for Razorfish, Tucker built the physical industrial design capabilities and helped direct Razorfish on a global level. The seamless integration on all media demands a new kind of designer, that's why Metropolis magazine called him the "last industrial designer."

So far he holds 32 US utility patents, won many design awards, his work is in museum collections, he's written lots of articles, organized national conferences for the ACD and IDSA, he produced (and designed) a book about the industrial design curriculum created at Pratt in the 1940's by Rowena Reed Kostellow and others called "Elements of Design." He is Vice President of the Architectural League of New York, and is a Fellow of the Industrial Designers Society of America. He graduated from Pratt Institute in 1974.