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R. Michael Hendrix is an American graphic designer and entrepreneur.

He is a Partner and the Global Design Director of design firm IDEO, based in the Cambridge, Massachusetts, studio. In 2002, he co-founded sustainable design firm Tricycle Inc., which was purchased by carpet manufacturer Shaw Industries in 2017.

Hendrix teaches entrepreneurship at the Berklee College of Music where is also a co-founder of the Open Music Initiative, a program of the Berklee Institute for Creative Entrepreneurship.

He graduated from the University of Tennessee in 1994 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design.

Recognition

While at Tricycle Inc. he was made an AIGA Fellow for significant contributions to the field of graphic design; received the Industrial Designers Society of America IDEA award; was selected for the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Triennial; and was a Top Nominee (now referred to as Finalist) for the Danish INDEX Awards.

He has also been recognized for design excellence by "American design associations and publications including the One Show, Type Directors Club, Print, HOW and Communication Arts" and is a regular speaker at design conferences including WIRED, SXSW, HOW Design, AIGA, and Design Management Institute.

Publications

In 2010 he co-authored an article with Jane Fulton Suri for Rotman School of Management on why design thinking should also be accompanied by design sensibilities.

In 2021 he co-authored, Two Beats Ahead: What Musical Minds Teach Us About Innovation, with Panos Panay.

Other activities

Hendrix writes and performs music as R.M. Hendrix. He released one album and two EPs in 2011. In 2014 he released "Urban Turks Country Jerks" on Moon Sounds Records, and was named one of the "fifty finest artists" of the year by Drowned in Sound. He released "Can It Find Us Here?" in 2017.

References

  1. Overfelt, Maggie. "A startup produces environmentally friendly carpet samples". Fortune Small Business. CNN Money. Retrieved October 24, 2006.
  2. "Michael Hendrix". IDEO. Retrieved 2011-11-25.
  3. "Carpet maker Shaw acquires Tennessee digital sample provider". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2017-10-13.
  4. "Faculty and Staff | Berklee College of Music".
  5. "Alumni: Where Are They Now?". UT Knoxville: School of Art. University of Tennessee. 2016-01-07.
  6. "AIGA Fellow". AIGA. 2008.
  7. "SIM from Tricycle". IDSA. 2010-05-25.
  8. "Tryk". Cooper Hewitt National Design Triennial. 18 January 2022.
  9. "SIM Carpet Simulation". INDEX: DESIGN TO IMPROVE LIFE. Retrieved 3 March 2012.
  10. "R. Michael Hendrix Biography by AIGA". AIGA. Retrieved 3 March 2012.
  11. "Michael Hendrix Biography by IDEO".
  12. Hendrix, Michael; Jane Fulton Suri (Spring 2010). "Developing Design Sensibilities" (PDF). Rotman Magazine.
  13. "Artist Site". R.M.Hendrix Discography.
  14. Gourlay, Dom. "Some Velvet Mixtape". Drowned in Sound. Archived from the original on December 9, 2014. Retrieved December 5, 2014.

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