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Dennis Luke Kappen (Born 1968, in Kerala India) is a Canadian Industrial Designer of South Asian origin. He is currently Professor of Industrial Design, teaching in the Bachelors program in Industrial Design at Humber College. He is a design consultant, business strategist and brand experience designer with specialization in interaction design, ergonomics and human factors design, computer aided design and plastics product design. He is also a researcher at UOIT pursuing research in strategic human interaction in the realm of living spaces and spatial interaction for older adults and vulnerable population. == Design career == Dennis Kappen graduated with a Masters in Design (MDes) in 1992 from the Industrial Design Centre (IDC) at the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai. During his student life he secured two international design awards from Sony Corporation, Japan 1991 : Honourable Mention: Shapes of Sound to Come, International Student Design Competition, Sony Corporation, Japan 1992 : International Second Prize : International Idea Design Competition, Sony Corporation, Japan After a 3-year stint in Mumbai at a design consulting firm (1992-1995), as an industrial designer providing branding and packaging designs to cosmetics containers and perfume bottles, Dennis went on to secure a full entry scholarship to the Advanced Product Design program at Art Center, Europe (ACE)(1995). This education at the Art Center continued at Art Center College of Design, located at the Pasadena campus, California. He immigrated to Canada in 1996. He has more than 17 years of product design and development experience with products for Brita Canada, Black and Decker, Perkin Elmer, MDS-Sciex and G-Tech Corporation, amongst others. These design projects have covered various fields including new technology, consumer products, kiosks and internet technology, medical products and hand held electronic devices. Some of the notable designs for which he was responsible for were: the Brita Atlantis water filtration jug, a product that was exhibited at the Universal by Design Exhibition,2000, at the Design Exchange, Toronto; Grass shears for Black & Decker; mass spectrometers for medical electronics firms; automated medical sampling device for Dynacon Inc; and the P5 glove to name a few notable industrial designs. Kappen incorporated 3D Ideation Inc. a full service product development firm with the aim to provide strategic business innovation through design incorporating the basic values of enhancement of human life, convenience of use, interaction design, human factors and ergonomics and plastic product design. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dennis L. Kappen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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