Frank Nuovo (born 1961), an Italian American, has been a
mobile phone
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industrial designer, and a former Vice President and Chief of Design at
Nokia
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.
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Education
Nuovo graduated with a bachelor of science in industrial design from the
Art Center College of Design
Art Center College of Design (stylized as ArtCenter College of Design) is a private art college in Pasadena, California.
History
ArtCenter College of Design was founded in 1930 in downtown Los Angeles as the Art Center School.
In 1935, Fred ...
in
Pasadena
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...
in 1986.
Career
Nuovo started his professional industrial design career in 1986 working with Charles Pelly's Designworks. Early projects ranged from furniture to medical instruments and from consumer electronics and transportation interiors to complex air traffic and automated control systems workstation designs. Nuovo's work with Nokia began as a consultant in 1989 while continuing work at
Designworks/USA in
Ago7ura. In 1995 he began working for Nokia full-time, setting up Nokia's first dedicated industrial design and styling group and center in
Los Angeles, California
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. Over the next decade (1995 to 2006) Nuovo led the creation of Nokia's first global design team, which, during his administration, included additional design centers in Finland and England, and also included remote design teams in Denmark, China, Japan, Germany and the USA.
In late 2005, Nuovo began planning to leave his position at Nokia in order to focus on Vertu. Upon his departure from Nokia in April 2006, he maintained a role as Principal Designer at Vertu with concentration on the development of the Vertu brand and product portfolio, until his departure from Vertu in 2012.
Personal life
Nuovo opened his own design studio in Southern California called Design Studio Nuovo, which he operates with his designer wife and business partner, Trina Nuovo.
References
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1961 births
Living people
American designers
Nokia people