Will Prindle Design: Resume

WILLIAM PRINDLE

William Prindle is the principal of William Prindle Design in Santa Barbara, California. Will’s approach to contemporary design addresses the aesthetic and functional aspects of everyday objects. His firm assists domestic and international clients in developing new products from concept through manufacture. During the last 20 years, more than 1,000 of Prindle's designs have been put into production. His client list includes firms in Belgium, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico and Taiwan, as well as in the United States.

Will studied sculpture and glassmaking at Providence's Rhode Island School of Design. College mentors included architect Kent Keegan and glass artists Fritz Dreisbach and Dale Chihuly. After earning a bachelor's degree in fine arts, sculpture, in 1974, he worked in Italy for two years with Dino Gavina and Carlo Scarpa at Gavina/Simon International in Bologna, and at Venini Glass in Murano designing furniture, lighting systems, and handmade tabletop products.

In 1978, Prindle received a master's degree in industrial design from Rhode Island School of Design. For the next decade, Prindle worked as a designer and design manager for companies including Viking Glass, Corning Glass Works, and Crown Corning. He then established his own firm to focus on housewares, furniture, tabletop and office products.

Will has published numerous articles on design trends and glassmaking techniques, and delivered lectures and workshops on glassmaking and product design for organizations and institutions including the Tableware International Symposium, the Rhode Island School of Design, the American Ceramics Society, and University of California Santa Barbara.

Prindle's designs have been displayed in exhibitions and featured in books and publications such as Design in Plastics and Product Design 2, Architectural Record, Décor, ID, Interior Design, Metropolis and The New York Times.

SELECTED CLIENTS

Anchor Hocking, Atlantic, Colonial Candle, Corning Glass Works, Covetro, Crown Corning, Crate and Barrel, Dansk Designs, Ekco Housewares, Estia/Cuisine Cookware, Forms+Surfaces, Gavina/Simon International, Gorham, Grainware, Impulse Designs, Maspion, Museum of Modern Art, Norpro, Olde Thompson, Oneida Housewares, Pagnossin/Richard Ginori, Robinson Knife, Royal Housewares, Santa Barbara Ceramic Design, Sanyei International, Sasaki Crystal, Scott Resources, Selandia Designs, Serengeti Eyewear, Smith Metal Arts/MacDonald, Starbucks Coffee, Stelvia, ThermoServ, 3 Form, Val Saint Lambert, Venini Glass, Viking Glass Company, Vitrocrisa, Wilton Armetale, Yamazaki Flatware, Zojirushi Corporation.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1997
Faculty, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island

1996-2005
VP of Design & Development, Forms+Surfaces, Carpinteria, California

1988
Established William Prindle Design, Santa Barbara, California

1985-1987
Design Manager, Crown Corning, Los Angeles, California

1980-1985
Senior Designer, Consumer Products Division, Corning Inc., Corning, New York

1978-1980
Resident Designer, Viking Glass Company, New Martinsville, West Virginia

1977-1978
Design Consultant, Viking Glass Company, New Martinsville, West Virginia

1974-1975
Design Consultant/Artist in Residence, Venini Glass, Murano, Italy

1974
Design Consultant, Gavina/Simon International, Bologna, Italy and Gavina/Simon International, Bologna, Italy

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution,
New York, New York

Huntington Galleries, Huntington, West Virginia

Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst, Munich, Germany

Microfiche Collection
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Wexner Center For The Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

American Crafts Museum, New York, New York

Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, California

Messe Frankfurt, National Housewares Manufacturing Association,
Frankfurt, Germany

International Housewares Show, National Housewares Manufacturing Association,
Chicago, Illinois

Market House Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design,
Providence, Rhode Island

Reynolds Gallery, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, California

Bayard Ewing Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design,
Providence, Rhode Island

Grand Gallery, National Arts Club, New York, New York

Huntington Galleries, Huntington, West Virginia

Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design,
Providence, Rhode Island

Yaw Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

Woods-Gerry Mansion, Rhode Island School of Design,
Providence, Rhode Island

Galleria Bevilacqua Della Massa, Venice, Italy

Palazzo Cenci, Rome, Italy

Botolph Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts