In ninth grade, Tom Newhouse told his school counselor his career choice. He then explained what an "industrial designer" was. Such is the fate of precocious youth.
"I don't remember a time when I wasn't planning, designing, or building. If our class put on a play, I built the set. If something broke, I fixed it. I've always enjoyed figuring out how things work."
Tom credits his father, a self-taught engineer, for his fascination with the world of mechanics. "I could ask him any technical question, and he would explain everything with logic and simplicity." And his mother balanced this pragmatism, as her sculptures, paintings, and aesthetic sensibility "showed me a completely new way of...
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