Sublime

I began working on R2-D2 with Les. To get things moving and to build a very rough mock-up in wood we needed a skilled carpenter and prop maker, someone who could join the team and work without complaining about lack of funding or materials. Someone who could create something from nothing, and at the same time construct a simple mock-up of the lands

Carpenter

The Advisor Paradox: Hire advisors for good advice but don’t follow it, apply it.

Maurice, who had studied there himself before the war, knew that the Royal College of Art, a wholly postgraduate college, was conducting an experiment by taking three students without first degrees to see how they compared. I applied, took the exam, was interviewed, although possessing a scant knowledge of furniture woods, and was thrilled to be ac

My children’s theater design was based on the Triodetic structural system patented by Vickers, the engineering conglomerate.

Jeremy asked me to engineer, prototype, and sell the glass fiber Sea Truck. An art student just beginning my penultimate year at college, I was offered a job as head of a new marine division of Jeremy’s successful engineering company, Rotork. I jumped at the opportunity. Jeremy, however, insisted that I complete my degree, which is why my third-yea