Mr. Heatherwick launched his own interdisciplinary design studio in 1994, shortly after graduation.

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Since Facebook introduced its controversial Timeline design last year, my important personal milestones (college graduation, marriage, the births of my daughters, the "Friday Night Lights" finale) all have neatly filed themselves into the digital record of my life.

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For the most part these young talents were fresh from design school where Sellers had often spotted them at their graduation shows and, at the time, relatively unknown, but if anything, that spurred her on.

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