Karen Stone, director of Knoll's interior design division, said, "Their approach was spatial and environmental as opposed to object-driven."

When the director of Mazda's design division discovered that Yamamoto had a degree in mechanical engineering, he asked the young assembler to switch to engine research.

Her father is the director of the computer-aided design division of the Human Resources Administration in Manhattan.

He succeeds Phil Smith, who becomes managing director at Duffy Design and Interactive, the agency's design division.

In September 2009, the company launched a major design division for men and women that is carried in the retail and department stores.

Connecting design efforts to an organization's business strategy (Example: Hewlett-Packard's global design division is focused most intently on designs that simplify technology experiences.

He gives little thought to layoffs; the design division, where he works, has 70 people, including Germans, Portuguese, French and Norwegians, and is growing.

That same year, Wales became Cultural Forecaster for Toyota, tracking and predicting trends for the automaker's design division.

Duffy, the design division of Fallon, will also open offices in Hong Kong and Singapore.

He started his career working as designer and developer for a media and communications agency in Germany, where he eventually rose to the head of the design division.