CV
Cranbrook Academy of Art
Master of Fine Arts
Design
Bloomfield Hills, MI
1980–1982
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Bachelor of Science
(Education)
Milwaukee, WI
1974
I have designed and developed furniture for production, as well as one-of-a-kind pieces for individual clients. I have won two Institute of Business Design (IBD) awards and am represented in the permanent collection of the Cranbrook Museum of Art. My work has been published internationally and exhibited in New York, Chicago, Tokyo, Minneapolis, and in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. I have managed my own industrial design studio for 45 years. During this time, I have gained extensive experience in the business of design.
Client relations: Established and maintained ongoing relations with manufacturers, architects, designers, and individual clients.
Business and legal aspects of design, including market research, accounting, budgeting, and generating contractual agreements.
Conceptual and developmental phases of design, i.e., taking initial concepts into scale models and full-size working prototypes.
Project management: Working with internal engineering and production staff, as well as vendors, to ready prototypes for production.
PROFESSIONAL TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Minneapolis, MN USA
Lecturer in Experimental Industrial Design, Furniture Design, Visual Studies. 1982–2000
Wentworth Institute of Technology
Boston, MA USA
Visiting faculty in Industrial Design
1993
Hauzong Institute of Science and Technology
Wuhan, Hubei, People’s Republic of China
Visiting faculty in Industrial Design 1987–1988
Industrial Design Seminars: introduced a process that encourage a search for design vocabulary in the personal interpretation of cultural object and rituals.
Interior Architecture Seminars: examined indigenous building types for formal elements and ritual usage to be incorporated in low-rise, medium density housing.
Neocon
New Products
Chicago, IL
1986, 1987, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009
Cranbrook Design
The New Discourse
Bloomfield Hills, MI
New York
Los Angeles
Tokyo
1990-1992
AWARDS
Cranbrook Academy of Art
Molti Stack Chair installed in the permanent collection
2010
International Design Resource
Award for New Products Using Recycled Materials
1995, 1997
Nightingale Award
2005, 2008
Roscoe Award
2005, 2008
Cranbrook Museum of Art
Kobe chair installed in permanent collection
1991
Institute of Business Designers (IBD)
1987, 1989, 1997, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009