Daniel Streng
Co-Founder
Not all change is good. You must qualify and tell a story, or it becomes too abstract.
Interested in disruptive aesthetics, Daniel is careful not to be disruptive to the point where selfhood is lost. By testing the limits of objects' identities, he discovers their utmost indicative elements. In contra–balance to his brother, he often proceeds beginning with the parts before the whole, experimenting with new forms to understand what life they will inhabit.
MIAD / Consumer Testing/ Ten Avant Gard Team Award / 2003 Cooper–Hewitt Design Triennial / Good Design Juror
Christopher Streng
Co-Founder
I used to find things that were cleverly built, and... take them apart.
By analyzing and deconstructing exemplary objects, Christopher develops a sense of how their parts fit together into the synthetic whole. Starting from a clear vision and deriving details from that vision, he bases his design on what essential task the object is supposed to perform. “When function is allowed to dictate the elegance of a thing,” in order that the function itself lends it its mood and emotional evocativeness, thats the kind of final product that deeply satisfies Christophers aesthetic drive and that of our clients.
MIAD, Furniture Design / Keynote Speaker, KBIS 2005 / Ten Avant Gard Team Award / 2003 Cooper–Hewitt Design Triennial
Tim Read
Senior Designer
Treating each problem as a riddle and answer each with an opportunity or avenue for exploration. That is what drives me — knowing there will never be a right answer, only new insights.
Tim is in charge of “keeping the road map” and exploring the inter–connections that are obtained between concepts, stories, and innovations. His predominant role is to develop and implement user interfacing, extensive market analysis and research. Tim develops and utilizes programs from a users–centered approach. Tim's extensive design expertise has been indispensable to identifying critical elements of the user-experience that continue to open up opportunities for Streng's clients.
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign Masters in Industrial Design / Musician / Composer
Parker Selbert
Visual Director
A lot of the beauty I see in things, is that through the chain of production the purity of the idea is carried all the way through, and technically it retains what it started as.
Parker will give anyone who confuses his rendered visualizations with photographs a wry smile. For Parker, there's hardly a difference between work and play; and so there is no wondering why he's so satisfied when his obsessive attention to detail results in solutions that deftly challenge the marketplace. Successfully blurring the line between photos and representations, reality and dreams, work and play makes it clearer that “ it's all about happiness. It's about what makes you tick. “
Savannah School of Art and Design Furniture Design / Programmer / Cultural Critic–At–Large / Audiophile
Philip de los Reyes
Designer
My inspiration comes when I'm pushing materials in new directions finding fresh opportunities for distinction.
Through an inventive relationship to material innovation, Philip takes an inspired twist on the standard language applied to furniture and industrial design - the result of which is familiar and yet completely unique. A key member of the studio his input is functional and to the point while ever buoyant in his excitement for design. Not only a designer, Philip is an inspired builder, often relying on the three dimensional object to guide the final design cues.
Rhode Island School of Design Furniture Design / Kite Flyer / Model Airplane Designer
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