Hans logged onto his computer and found thermal engineers in Wisconsin, a patent attorney in Maryland and a visual designer in Massachusetts.

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You can be a software engineer, hardware engineer, product manager, visual designer, salesperson, office manager, copywriter, investor, analyst, chef, artist, sysadmin, photographer, lawyer, journalist, PR person, and much more.

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Van Zandt, who shares directing duties with visual designer Marc Brickman, says the show marks a new phenomenon for Broadway: not a musical like "Jersey Boys" and also not a concert by, say, Frankie Valli.

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Living in such small spaces is going to push people to furnish their own living spaces without an inherent sense of clutter or visual noise, says Theo Richardson, an industrial designer and co-founder of Rich Brilliant Willing (RBW), a Brooklyn-based contemporary lighting and furniture design manufacturer.

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Both Abertay and Dundee universities have been working with computer programmers, a sound designer and solar physics scientists to create the massive visual display.

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But, unlike most "designer" models, its appeal is more than just visual.

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Nicole Coddington, a senior designer who worked on the phone, said HTC wanted to create a new visual language for the Rhyme.

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Dominique Drillot's lighting enhanced Mr. Condo's visual elements beautifully and suggested the participation of the painter's eye as much as the lighting designer's, particularly when compared with Mr. Drillot's work elsewhere on this program.

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