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The designer's fine touch F&T in perspective www.HPARCHIVE.com Those curious, c eative industrial designers HE HP INDUSTRIAL DESIGNER is an elusive fellow T to describe. He is an artist ... and yet he is more than that. He is "mechanically minded" and has a good gen- eral understanding of a multitude of engineering problems. He knows manufacturing procedures, materials, and he is cognizant of the needs of the HP people who sell to cus- tomers. He must, in short, be a man of many talents because he serves many masters. o As Industrial Design Manager Al Inhelder puts it, HP industrial designers are "curious and creative." A natural curiosity is necessary because the designer must study hard to find the why and how of any material, component, or in- strument he is asked to work with. He then applies this knowledge creatively to develop practical design solutions to problems. The central industrial design department at Palo Alto is staffed with nine men. In addition, there are six designers attached to divisions-two with Microwave and one each with Dymec, Colorado Springs, Sanborn, and Moseley. The central group works on corporate projects, coordinates the design efforts of the divisional designers, and provides a complete service for the divisions which have no designers. o At least fifty major projects are handled by central indus- trial design each year and approximately that many by the designers associated with divisions. These c