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Tucker L. Viemeister (born August 14, 1948) is an American industrial designer who is leading Viemeister Industries in New York. Tucker helped found many important design businesses: frogdesign NY, Razorfish, Smart Design, Springtime-USA, and was Chief of the Lab at the Rockwell Group. He helped design the influential and award-winning Oxo "Good Grips" kitchen tools. He holds 32 US utility patents. Vice President of the Architectural League of New York, Viemeister is also a Fellow of the Industrial Designers Society of America. His work is represented in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; and the Staatliches Museum, Berlin, Germany. His numerous awards include 11 selections in the Annual Design Review of ''ID Magazine'', and the first Presidential Design Award in 1984. == Early life and education == Born in Yellow Springs, Ohio as the oldest of four children, Tucker Viemeister was named for a car his father was designing at the time, 1948 Tucker Sedan. Read Viemeister (1923–1993) was an industrial designer, FIDSA, and founded Vie Design Studios with Budd Steinhilber. His mother Beverly Lipsett Viemeister (1927–2005) made many contributions to the Yellow Springs community before completing her degree in secondary education at Antioch College in 1965 and earning her master's in social work in 1968. After that she worked in social services. They had four children: Tucker, Kris, Heidi and Roslyn. With his brother Kris, Tucker opened a jewelry shop called "Ohio Silver". They designed, crafted and sold fine jewelry, stained glass, leather work, and anything else they could make. He went to the Antioch School and Yellow Springs High School. Viemeister studied for two years at Shimer College, including a year in Oxford, England; Shimer has operated a study abroad program at Oxford University since the early 1960s. He ultimately graduated from Pratt Institute in 1974 with a Bachelor's degree in Industrial Design (BID). He helped his Pratt Institute classmate Ted Muehling start his jewelry career. 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「Tucker Viemeister」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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