Sam Hecht, born in London 1969, British
industrial designer. Hecht and partner
Kim Colin are the founders of a London design studio called
Industrial Facility. Clients include
Muji
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,
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,
LaCie
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,
Emeco
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, Established & Sons, Issey Miyake,
Epson
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,
Magis
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,
Lexon,
Whirlpool
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, and Wästberg.
Biographical detail
He studied at
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
Central Saint Martins is a public tertiary art school in London, England. It is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London. It offers full-time courses at foundation, undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and a variety of sho ...
and received his degree in industrial design from the
Royal College of Art
The Royal College of Art (RCA) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom, with campuses in South Kensington, Battersea and White City. It is the only entirely postgraduate art and design university in the United Kingdom. It o ...
in London.
Hecht worked for architect
David Chipperfield and travelled in the US and Japan before becoming head of design at
IDEO
IDEO () is a design and consulting firm with offices in the U.S., England, Germany, Japan, and China. It was founded in Palo Alto, California, in 1991. The company's 700 staff uses a design thinking approach to design products, services, enviro ...
.
Hecht and Colin founded Industrial Facility in 2002.
He has taught at the Royal College of Art and as visiting professor of Karlsruhe University.
Hecht and Colin's work is held in museum collections including the
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.
It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of ...
(MoMA) in New York and the
Centre Pompidou
The Centre Pompidou (), more fully the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou ( en, National Georges Pompidou Centre of Art and Culture), also known as the Pompidou Centre in English, is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of ...
in Paris.
Designs by Hecht and Colin have received numerous prizes including six
iF Gold Awards.
Hecht and Colin were appointed
Royal Designers for Industry
Royal Designer for Industry is a distinction established by the British Royal Society of Arts (RSA) in 1936, to encourage a high standard of industrial design and enhance the status of designers. It is awarded to people who have achieved "sustaine ...
in the United Kingdom in 2008 and 2015 respectively.
In 2019
Phaidon Press published a monograph about Industrial Facility’s work.
References
External links
Industrial Facility sitePictures of Sam Hecht @ The Design Museum
1969 births
Living people
Artists from London
British industrial designers
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Royal Designers for Industry