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ALAIN GILLES Portrait by Lydie Nesvadba Design as a second life: After a brief stint in the financial world, Gilles returned to study industrial design, at the urging of his wife, in France. In 2012 Barber Osgerby launched the strategy-based industrial design consultancy Map Project Office. JERRY VAN EYCK !melk’s

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Vignelli learned how to design lighting fixtures and a house in Venice, but eventually realized , “the architectural process was too slow if compared to the speed of the industrial design process.” This led him to shift his focus towards editorial, product, and packaging design.

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The prolific furniture and product designer Luca Nichetto graduated from the Università Iuav di Venezia in 1998 and began his career in industrial design the very next year. He started out at the Murano-based glass maker Salviati, and then worked as a product designer and consultant for lighting company Foscarini.