Tucker Viemeister, VP Creative, Studio Red at Rockwell Group, the multidisciplinary team working with clients like Gap (Fourth & Towne retail concept), JetBlue (Terminal 5 experience), Mercedes (ride and drive events), McDonald¹s, and Coca Cola (CCCruiser, Sampling Spot, Red Lounge, etc.). A graduate of Pratt Institute, he was a founder of Smart Design where he helped design the widely acclaimed OXO "GoodGrips" universal kitchen tools.

He also was president of Springtime-USA, a partnership with the Dutch industrial design company, he helped to found Razorfish's physical design capability, and frogdesign's New York office. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Architectural League of New York, chair of the Rowena Reed Kostellow Fund and president of the International Design Network Foundation. He¹s a Fellow of the Industrial Designers Society of America, was called "Guru" by BusinessWeek, "scruffy brand-meister" by the Architect¹s Newspaper (2/06) and dubbed "Industrial Design¹s Elder Wunderkind" when ID included him in America's hottest 40. He produced and designed Elements of Design: Rowena Reed Kostellow and the Structure of Visual relationships. Tucker teaches at NYU's ITP, holds 32 US Utility Patents and was named after a car.

More information:

http://new.idsa.org/webmodules/articles/anmviewer.asp?a=1781&z=106

http://www.generalthinking.com/default.cfm?pk_section=5&pk_thinker=349

http://itp.tisch.nyu.edu/object/ViemeisterT.html