Sam Hecht
Sam Hecht small (born 7 August 1969) is a British industrial designer. Hecht and his partner Kim Colin (designer) are the founders of a London design studio called Industrial Facility. Clients include Muji, Yamaha, LaCie, Emeco, Established & Sons, Issey Miyake, Epson, Magis, Lexon, Dell, Whirlpool, and Wästberg.
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Sam Hecht
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- Name
- Sam Hecht
- Born
- 7 August 1969
- Birthplace
- London, England
- Occupation
- Industrial designer
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Fields
- industrial design right · industrial design
- Education
- Mill Hill School · Central Saint Martins · Royal College of Art
- Honours
- Royal Designer for Industry
- Languages
- English
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He has taught at the Royal College of Art and as visiting professor of Karlsruhe University in Germany. Hecht and Colin's work is held in museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Designs by Hecht and Colin have received numerous prizes including six iF Gold Awards. Hecht and Colin were appointed Royal Designers for Industry in the United Kingdom in 2008 and 2015, respectively. In 2019 Phaidon Press published a monograph about Industrial Facility’s work.
Sam Hecht studied at Mill Hill School, Central Saint Martins and Royal College of Art. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is industrial design right and industrial design. Work by Sam Hecht is recorded in the collections of Art Institute of Chicago and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Distinctions recorded are Royal Designer for Industry.
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• Name — Sam Hecht • Honorific Suffix — RDI • Born — 7 August 1969 • Birthplace — London, England • Occupation — Industrial designer • Illustration — Dell keyboard SK-8165 with modified layout of the keycaps, designed by Industrial Facility
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scholarly publication
- Watercycle Pavilion Greenwich, London, UK Sam Hecht/IDEO London, International Architecture Yearbook: No. 8, 2014
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- 1.Sam Hecht MoMA. The Museum of Modern Art.
- 2.Sam Hecht. Centre Pompidou.
- 3.Sam Hecht's talk at the Simplicity symposium – we make money not art.
- 4.Industrial Facility
- 5.Industrial Facility / The European Design Show : - Design/Designer Information
- 6.iF - Sam Hecht. ifdesign.com.
- 7.Royal Designers for Industry.
- 8.Hecht, Sam. Industrial Facility. 2018. 978-0-7148-7579-8.
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Watercycle Pavilion Greenwich, London, UK Sam Hecht/IDEO London, International Architecture Yearbook: No. 8, 2014Crossref registry
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