Beat Karrer knows how to pay a compliment. ‘He gets shit done,’ says the seasoned Zurich designer and founder of game-changing material innovators FluidSolids of his fellow Swiss industrial designer Lukas Scherrer. Like creative, entrepreneurial brethren, but without any of the rivalry and psychodrama that you find in real families, Karrer and California-based Scherrer have, as commercially successful, company-owning designers in their own right, designed an ongoing, collaborative partnership that sees them cleverly cross-leverage their respective competencies and contact databases to maximum enterprising effect. It all started when they were both invited to run student workshops at a Swiss university. ‘We both drove the students the same way,’ explains Scherrer, former senior designer at the Palo Alto office of international design consultancy IDEO and founder of SHIBULERU, a San Francisco design firm that innovates for high-profile start-ups and Fortune 500 clients. ‘We weren’t in… continue
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