Fran莽ois Nguyen
Fran莽ois is currently a creative director at 鈥檚 San Francisco studio. He has a diverse range of industrial design experience with an emphasis on consumer audio products. His career began over a decade ago at where he worked with clients such as Microsoft, Coca-Cola, and Dell. Later, he joined where he was the lead designer for the original 鈥淏eats Studio 鈥� headphones for Dr. Dre, a design that would give rise to the world鈥檚 most widely recognized audio brand.
Currently as a creative lead at , Fran莽ois is responsible for ensuring high standards of design excellence, overseeing the vision of a projects, managing the team, pursuing new business, managing client relationships, and most importantly, continuing to grow by actively listening and learning. His work continually strives to be emotionally and intellectually engaging through balancing the use of materials, form, finish, poetry, and metaphor.
"Each designer鈥檚 process is uniquely shaped by their personal experiences and passions. It is essential to look outside of one鈥檚 discipline and 鈥渓eave the table 鈥� in order to bring back something fresh and original."
His work has been featured in such prominent publications as RollingStone, The New Yorker, and FastCompany. When he is not designing, Fran莽ois is a performing/recording musician and has released two albums of original compositions.
