Prototype to Product:  Thirty-three Projects from the Bay Area Design Community

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Prototype to Product: Thirty-three Projects from the Bay Area Design Community
New Exhibition at SFO Explores the Contribution of Bay Area Designers

SAN FRANCISCO -- Now on view at San Francisco International Airport, Prototype to Product: Thirty-three Projects from the Bay Area Design Community focuses on the creators and innovators behind thirty-three different design projects in the San Francisco Bay Area. From preliminary sketches and drawings to detailed illustrations, and from models and prototypes to finished products, a variety of design solutions are presented.

The design projects cover a wide spectrum ranging from the Oral-B CrossAction toothbrush, designed to address both ergonomics and cleaning capability, to the Topcon GR-3, a high-end satellite-positioning receiver used for construction, surveying and engineering. Also featured are a low-cost laptop computer designed for children in the developing world, a teapot intended for brewing the perfect cup of tea, and a handbag made from repurposed parachutes and drapery. Bay Area design firms represented in the exhibition include COMPASS Product Design, Pleasanton; Design Symbiosis, San Francisco; fuseproject, San Francisco; Gingko Design, Inc., San Francisco; IDEO, Palo Alto; Kensington, Redwood City; Knoend, San Francisco; Lunar Design, Palo Alto; Metaform Product Development, San Francisco; New Deal Design, San Francisco; One & Co., San Francisco; seven02 design, LLC, Palo Alto; Smart Design, San Francisco; Summit Industrial Design, San Francisco; Whipsaw Inc., San Jose; and Y Studios, San Francisco.

The exhibition coincides with the CONNECTING ’07 World Design Congress held in San Francisco in October 2007.

Prototype to Product is located post-security in Boarding Area F, and is on view to passenger ticketed for travel through Terminal 3 until January 18, 2008. There is no charge to view the exhibition.

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