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Most products are ugly. The harsh reality is that in many of these markets, form follows funding. And that products go where the market takes them.

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Bran Ferren
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: January 16
Designer
New York City
New York
Products
Takes
Reality
Funding
Form
Markets
Many
Harsh
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Ugly
Market

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