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David is a multifarious interdisciplinary designer, early adopter and parallel entrepreneur. His illustrated career spans many design disciplines, from graphics to packaging to industrial design and all manner of talents in-between. David has been in pioneer positions and frontier markets since 1985: digital typography as a designer; real-time 3D computer graphics as a publications manager; digital graphic arts as production designer; digital film service bureau as the manager; the first international inventors magazine (Invent!) as founder, publisher and editor-in-chief; the first national inventors trade show as manager of publications and speakers; the first nonprofit to develop connected schools as communications director, then president; and the Internet as web designer and html coder.

In 2004 David founded Designfluence, a for-benefit corporation connecting designers and resources for products that benefit people. He sits on the board of Earth Treasury, a nonprofit organization founded to guide children in creating sustainable businesses using the OLPC's XO laptop computer as facilitating communications hardware. David also advises oneVillage Foundation, dedicated to bringing ICT gear and infrastructure to developing communities, and is a member of the executive team for Sustainovation, helping business achieve sustainability through innovation.

Designfluence is working to launch its first major project: the Give Bank™, which is a web portal for designers committing to pro bono hours of design work for humanitarian projects in the area of appropriate technologies and healthy materials, and DesignJams, events for breakthrough collaborative design to provide local solutions for local problems aided by the global design community.

David is an activist for disruptive technologies, open source industrial design, "design for the Other 90%," cradle-to-cradle design thinking, global localization, and the "integrated bottom line" (from Natural Capital Solutions).

In 2007 he founded Design Earth with Mark Roest, a design consultancy for sustainable products, systems and economies.

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