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Welcome to Michael Voege, Director of Industrial Design!

by Dave Cronin on July 14, 2008

Some of the most exciting and challenging products we’ve designed here at Cooper have involved a physical component. We admit it, we’re greedy: we want to do more fun projects like that. So without further ado, we’re excited to announce that Michael Voege has joined Cooper as the Director of Industrial Design. We fundamentally believe that interaction, industrial and visual design must be closely coordinated to create user experiences that delight and engage. Bringing in Michael, with his experience, creativity and crazy design mojo, will help us interweave these disciplines even more tightly as we grow our own in-house industrial design department.

Michael comes to Cooper from frog design, where he was an Associate Creative Director. During his 10+ year career he has worked on consumer products, software user interfaces, automotive interiors, furniture, and medical and industrial equipment, among others. Michael was educated at ArtCenter College of Design in Switzerland, and in Pasadena where he studied Transportation and Industrial Design.

Filed under: Cooper, Industrial design

Dave Cronin

is a director at Cooper, where he works with teams to design all kinds of products targeted at the needs of people like doctors, investment wizards, architects, people renovating their homes, the elderly, and various business folks. Dave is also a frequent instructor at the Cooper Interaction Design Practicum, was a co-author of About Face 3 and is currently a Contributing Editor (and author) for Interactions Magazine.


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Comments

On Jul 18, 2008, Honoria Starbuck said:


Michael Voege, as usual, is invited to Bring shows + tells, inforgasms, big fibs, success stories and vice versa.

Midsummer night's post-morning pozole at the Austin Visual Thinking Consortium

on the deck of
El Sol y La Luna
So. congresso, austin, tx
at 12:30 Saturday as usual

congrats on your new job!
honoria and the knutster

 

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