This is better than lying on some beach. The devastation is amazing, but I'm in engineering so I'm looking at this as a way to see how things are built.

As industrial designers, we?re often in the middle of marketing and engineering. We have to be looking for those engineering innovations that can offer our clients a competitive advantage. … We were very impressed with the number of products and just the innovation from a manufacturing standpoint.

This is not mastery. You don't have to ace this test.

It did have wonderful craftsmanship. The detail fortunately was not stripped.

We're more immune to the ups and downs.

The last two years were particularly bad. I've been in town 10 years and I've never seen it like this year.