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When asked by his mother what he wanted to be when he grew up, Harrison said he wanted to be handsome. Or a firefighter! To his childhood self’s disappointment, Harrison ended up as neither, instead becoming a mechanical engineer, physical creative, and environmental advocate. When asked who his heroes are, Harrison won’t stop gushing about sculptors like Isamu Noguchi and Yayoi Kusama, engineers like Santiago Calatrava and Horacio Pagani, or designers like Dieter Rams and Neri Oxman. Whether or not he’d like them all at the same dinner table is another question. His body of work centers around balancing formal desires and functional needs, and measures the success of his work through the extent which it kindles emotion, elicits interpretation, or evokes contemplation. Harrison is curious about the world’s most critical sustainability challenges: he envisions a world where businesses seek to satisfy peoples’ needs simply and elegantly instead of stoking discontent and desire, where res

about - harrison lin design + engineering about Harrison Lin Designer, Sculptor, Engineer When asked by his mother what he wanted to be when he grew up, Harrison said he wanted to be handsome. Or a firefighter! To his childhood self’s disappointment, Harrison ended up as neither, instead becoming a mechanical engineer, physical creative, and environmental advocate. When asked who his heroes are, Harrison won’t stop gushing about sculptors like Isamu Noguchi and Yayoi Kusama, engineers like Santiago Calatrava and Horacio Pagani, or designers like Dieter Rams and Neri Oxman. Whether or not h

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