User:Vladymir Rogov

Internationally renowned industrial designer Vladymir Rogov was born in Germany in 1948. He spent his first eleven years in Germany. He spent sixteen years (1959 - 1975) in England and eight years in Canada (1975 - 1984). He moved to the United States in 1984, where he set up his design studio in San Diego, California.

Rogov Timeline

1971: Designs trade show exhibits and pavilions at Beverly Pick Associates in London. Clients include: Chrysler, Fiat, Ford, EMI and Rank Xerox.

1972: Vladymir joins Terrence Conran where he designed houseware product lines for Habitat (UK); space heaters for National Coal Board (UK); kitchenware for Marks and Spencer (UK); door furniture for Bief Plast (Italy) and the Conran store.

1975: Vladymir joins leading Canadian Industrial Designers, KAN in Toronto. 1976: Designs the classic Aston Martin Lagonda's interior seating and outfitting. Aston Martin Lagonda was the hit of 1977 Earls Court Motor Show.

1977: Creates the look and feel of the early self-service gas station for Imperial Oil (EXXON). Its ubiquitous "self service" picturegram gas filling instructions were an influence throughout the industry for years to come. Coleman Coolers followed with product lines for European and North American markets.

1981: Designs his first Music Synthesizer. Stevie Wonder, upon touching instrument in New York said "Man ,I sure love the looks of this!". Won Design Canada Award.

San Diego the "landmark location" 1983: Vladymir traveled to California,and identifies San Diego as the "landmark" location to form ROGOV International Design.

1984: First computer look & feel designed for local Kaypro. But, Kaypro disregarded ROGOV's concept and advice and proceeded on a long painful slide to bankruptcy. 1985: Scientific Atlanta selects ROGOV for portable test instrument design.

1988: Gen-Probe, San Diego's first biotech start-up goes public with ROGOV's look and feel for it's product packaging and instrumentation.

1990: ROGOV receives IDSA Bronze award for Benmar Auto Pilot design

1991 Eastman Kodak gets ROGOV's look and feel for its motion analysis product. Casio becomes ROGOV's first Japanese client. ROGOV designs Casio's musical instruments, accessories and clocks.

ROGOV presents: "Style - Marketing Magic" philosophy to American Electronics Association as San Diego companies move from DOD to commercial product marketers.

WAVETEK - ROGOV creates look and feel strategy for its product line.

1992: ROGOV designs look and feel and builds CCT Imaging System for Thermo Electron Technologies. The result boosts the company's stock price and Wall Street's confidence.

1993: Samsung becomes ROGOV's first Korean client.

Hewlett Packard printer is designed by ROGOV.

Hitachi becomes a ROGOV client.

Allis Electronics is ROGOV's first Taiwanese client.

Sony becomes a ROGOV client. Hughes go to ROGOV for the look & feel of their wire bonder.

1996: Harris Corporation markets the ROGOV designed connectionless LAN Monitor.

1997: Yamaha comes to ROGOV for point-of-purchase display design. 2001: IDSA awards silver design honors for Command Console design for Z Microsystems.

2002: Path1 Network Technologies raises $28 Million with a Rogov design.

2005: Rogov designs the MPU (Multi-Platform-Unit) computer for Z Microsystems which goes on to win a place on the Army's CPP program.

2008: Rogov designs a hand-held security scanning wand for Sago, a division of Trex Enterprises.

2009: Vladymir Rogov designs new "Desk Architecture," a collection of home/office desk accessories that elevate function to fine art