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Sundberg-Ferar is an industrial design consultancy headquartered in Walled Lake, Michigan. Founded in 1934 by partners Carl Sundberg (1910–1982) and Montgomery Ferar (1910–1982), the company was among the first industrial design firms to be established in the U.S. Sundberg-Ferar employs approximately 20 employees in the disciplines of industrial design, mechanical engineering, research, model making and prototyping, interaction design and packaging design. The firm has designed products for hundreds of clients in categories such as home appliances and housewares, automotive and medical products, consumer electronics, industrial equipment, mass transit vehicles, vending machines and aircraft interiors. ==Company History== In 1934, founders Sundberg and Ferar were working together at the General Motors Art & Color Section under Harley J. Earl when they decided to leave and start their own firm.〔http://www.carofthecentury.com/harley_earl_design.htm〕 They remained partners and owners of Sundberg-Ferar until 1975, when they retired from the firm. Company ownership has transitioned internally ever since. Originally located in Detroit, Michigan, Sundberg-Ferar became one of the leading independent design offices after World War II. The firm also pioneered the use of design to create corporate image, coordinating a look for IBM's early computers and showrooms in the 1950s.〔Toledo Museum of Art, "The Alliance of Art and Industry: Toledo Designs for a Modern America", 2002.〕 Company headquarters moved from Detroit to Royal Oak, Michigan and then to Southfield, Michigan in 1959. In 1995, the company moved to its current location in Walled Lake, Michigan where it operates within a 15,000 sq. ft. purpose-built structure. The building is divided into an 8,000 sq. ft. prototype shop and a 7,000 sq. ft. multi-disciplinary office space that includes a large focus group/viewing facility. During the 1990s, the company opened offices in Atlanta, Minneapolis and Chicago, but closed these offices in a restructuring effort in 2002-2004. In addition to Montgomery ("Monty") Ferar and Carl Sundberg, many noteworthy U.S. industrial designers of the 20th century at one time worked at Sundberg-Ferar, including Carl "Cam" Cameron, Samuel M. Highberger, Norman J. James and Clair Samhammer. 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「Sundberg-Ferar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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