Tucker Viemeister
Part-time Assistant Professor
Email
viemeist@newschool.edu
Office Location
A - 66 West 12th Street
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Tucker Viemeister is most famous for OXO Good Grips kitchen tools that conceived “universal design” designed at Smart Design, the company he helped found in 1979. He also founded the Lab (digital explorations on an architectural scale like the Cosmopolitan casino and an installation at the Venice Biennale) at Rockwell Group, and was EVP (physical design digital agency, Razorfish. He thrives on collaboration and working in all scales of 3D and 2D in exhibits, architecture, graphics, new media, branding and strategy. He is a Fellow of the Industrial Design Society of America, his work is in MoMA, holds 32 US utility patents and was named after a car and just finished working on the exhibitions for the new Shanghai Planetarium and a voting machine with Microsoft.
Degrees Held
Pratt Institute, New York, NY, Bachelor Industrial Design (BID)
Professional Affiliation
Architectural League of New York, Vice President
IDSA (Fellow 1998)
International Design Network Foundation, President
Rowena Reed Kostellow Fund, Chair
Awards And Honors
2018 Alumni Achievement Award, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2016 50, voted one of top 50 IDSA members of the last 50 years, IDSA, Herndon, VG
2013 Icon, 125 Icons, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Golden Key Award, (Cosmo) IHMRS, Core 77 Design Awards (runner-up Interiors/Exhibitions) (Cosmo), Star of Design, D&D Building
1999 Gold Design of the Decade (IDSA): Oxo GoodGrips