CUDA Side Table
Where we are has an influence on the work that we do. The designer was near Detroit when I designed Cuda. Detroit, the motor city, motown, the birthplace of techno music, Detroit is a very particular place. A fan of minimalist design, designer David Tsai wanted to design a piece with personality and character, something for the free-spirited individual, not the generic masses. CUDA, named for the iconic Barracuda, is more muscle car than family sedan.
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David Tsai
David studied architecture at the University of Texas at Austin. Feeling drawn to the scale and programmatic freedom of smaller scale objects he switched his focus to industrial design. He studied 3d design at Cranbrook Academy of Art and received his Master of Fine Arts in 3D design in 2002.
In 2003, Surface magazine selected David as part of a group of avant garde American industrial designers to exhibit in Milan and New York. His provocative, award-winning work has been profiled by numerous publications including Metropolis, I.D., Surface, Wallpaper and Artbox and has been exhibited in Houston, Detroit, Chicago, New York City, Milan and Montreal.
Returning to Houston in 2003, he taught and assisted in the development of the industrial design program at the University of Houston. He was a visiting assistant professor until 2010. Currently, David is the artist in residence at Houston Community College and is engaged in a studio practice in Houston, Texas.