Samuel "Sam" Lucente (born 1958) is a

designer A designer is a person who plans the form or structure of something before it is made, by preparing drawings or plans. In practice, anyone who creates tangible or intangible objects, products, processes, laws, games, graphics, services, or exp ...

. He has worked at various technology companies.

Education

Lucente studied at the

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Career

He worked for IBM between 1981 and 1996. He was responsible for the design of computers, including the Leapfrog computer and the

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, along with

Richard Sapper Richard Sapper (30 May 1932 – 31 December 2015) was a German industrial designer based in Milan, Italy. He is considered one of the most important designers of his generation, his products typically featuring a combination of technical innovat ...

. , which is part of the collection of his work at Museum of Modern Art. From 1996 until 1998 he worked at

Netscape Netscape Communications Corporation (originally Mosaic Communications Corporation) was an American independent computer services company with headquarters in Mountain View, California and then Dulles, Virginia. Its Netscape web browser was onc ...

. From 2003 until 2010 he was the VP of

design A design is a plan or specification for the construction of an object or system or for the implementation of an activity or process or the result of that plan or specification in the form of a prototype, product, or process. The verb ''to design'' ...

Hewlett Packard The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard ( ) or HP, was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. HP developed and provided a wide variety of hardware components ...

. At HP, he proposed using a single logo on their products to save costs. He has been a witness in the Apple v Samsung lawsuit.

Recognition

Lucente has received various awards.

References

External links

* https://www.wired.com/1994/04/dreamware/ * http://mbc.mmm.northwestern.edu/2008/Keynotes.html * https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB109052778547671386 * https://www.moma.org/artists/6612
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