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Focus On: Joanne Zorkendorfer of Olli

Heath Ceramics

When I was 17 I saw a book of industrial design renderings by the visual futurist Syd Mead, and I knew immediately that I wanted to design the future. I came to the US from New Zealand in 2001 and worked as an industrial designer at IDEO for 8 years. I have always been a student of the natural world and its systems.