Diffrient was a frustrated industrial designer with pioneering achievements, including the first chair whose height could be adjusted via a gas piston and spring, and a fold-up office table that replaced screws and plates with simple interlocking hinges.

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Wagner is both trained as a mechanical engineer and industrial designer which make him skilled in all practical stages of the design process.

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With 3DI, an industrial designer looking to source components can upload a 3D design into the 3D search engine which immediately returns a list of matching suppliers worldwide.

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Jules started her career as industrial designer for technology companies, and was subsequently a senior executive for large brands such as Keds, Stride Rite and Playskool.

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Living in such small spaces is going to push people to furnish their own living spaces without an inherent sense of clutter or visual noise, says Theo Richardson, an industrial designer and co-founder of Rich Brilliant Willing (RBW), a Brooklyn-based contemporary lighting and furniture design manufacturer.

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She hired designer Kristy Kropat, who turned a Mediterranean-style casita into a modern-industrial room with modular furniture, LED accent lights, metallic gray walls with pixelated Space Invader vinyl decals and bright pops of color.

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