Deborah Adler (born 1975) is an American designer. A native of

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, Adler is the daughter of a doctor and a nurse. She attended the

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, receiving her BFA in 1997. Adler then studied design at the

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under Steven Heller and

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. During this time, her grandmother became ill, having accidentally taken her husband's medication through inability to distinguish what was in the package. This led Adler to redesign prescription bottles as a thesis project. The resulting creation,

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, was distributed nationally by

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in its stores, and was a success. An example of the ClearRx bottle is in the permanent collection of the

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. Adler completed her MFA in 2002. She served as senior designer for

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for five years, and has since opened a boutique design firm in West Chelsea, Manhattan. A mother of two, she has served on the National Board of Directors of the

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and on the steering committee of the organization's Women Lead Initiative, and has shown at the National Design Triennial at the Cooper Hewitt.

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