One of the wonderful things about industrial design as a profession, versus your design school classmates' other majors, is its sheer breadth. For example illustrators are typically locked in to producing images, fashion designers are tied to wearable goods; but ID lets you do furniture, spaces, tabletop objects, packaging, vehicles and more.
It's also fascinating to see how one job can lead to another, enabling good designers to skip across product genres. A good case in point are the recent design doings of Scott Henderson, founder of his eponymous design studio as well as co-founder of the design collective MINT. Henderson's Slat Chair, above, debuted at the ICFF in 2011; of the many people who saw it, one happened to be editor of the UK's Super Yacht Design.
Once Henderson was on their radar, it was a manner of months before they ran this piece on a Henderson sculpture called Vulgaris, below:
The yacht link? Vulgaris is an aluminum CNC-milled octopus, and it turns out that Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen owns a mega-yacht called The Octopus; the article playfully suggested Allen bid on Vulgaris, which Henderson had created for an auction to benefit the World Wildlife Fund.
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