In 2011, for his "Beautiful Sunflower Panerai Painting, " he used hundreds of black Panerai watch faces, without their hands, to create a spin painting for the "O'Clock" exhibition at the Triennale Design Museum in Milan.
Prof tenOever hopes this discovery will lead to new antiviral drugs which target the virus's internal clock and that it will provide a new design platform for the flu vaccine.
This design philosophy gets to the heart of the fundamental difference between employees who punch a clock, and impassioned workers who really show up to make a difference each day.