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Tucker Viemeister

The LAB Chief, Rockwell Group
New York, NY
Tucker Viemeister is Lab Chief of Rockwell Group’s interactive technology design Lab combining digital interaction design, modeling and prototyping for hospitality, retail, packaging and products. The Lab experiments with interactive digital technology in objects, environments and stories - blurring the line between the physical and virtual. Tucker teaches at New York University’s ITP, is a Vice President of the Architectural League of New York, Chair of the Rowena Reed Kostellow Fund, President of the International Design Network Foundation, and is a Fellow of the Industrial Designers Society of America. He is a graduate of Pratt Institute and was named after a car.

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What Is "Industrial Design"? The demise of I.D. magazine leads Tucker Viemeister to examine the term "industrial design" and what it has meant throughout the years. Posted Mon Jan 4, 2010
When Design Is Also the Teacher Can the building you attend school in play a role in who you become? Tucker Viemeister thinks so. Posted Wed Nov 11, 2009
Designing for Beautility: Where Beauty Meets Utility Economics grab all the headlines but beauty is just as important, and even has serious financial ramifications. Posted Tue Nov 3, 2009
Pop-Ups, Pre-Fabs, and DIY: Branding for a New Economy Branding has changed dramatically in the last year. There's not much that's tangible and nothing is static--and new brands will be open-source experiences. Posted Mon Nov 2, 2009
How I Got My Interaction On Think about interactivity as a way to combine digital technology with real-life experience to make the real world better. But the secret is to blur the boundary between the real and the virtual. Posted Fri Oct 30, 2009
Thinking Our Way Toward the Future, Faster Most people don't think about the future much. But the very essence of design is thinking ahead--that’s how we make things better. Posted Thu Oct 29, 2009
The Role of a Designer? Encourage More People to Become Designers Everyone is a designer, whether they do it professionally or not. The world needs more of them to heed their calling to make the world a better place. Posted Tue Oct 27, 2009

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