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Kesign Design Consulting started as Ken Larson Miniatures in 1980. As we shifted from miniature construction to scenery and Architectural design in the early 1990s, we saw a need to change the name and did so in 1994. Services now include Production Design, Art Direction, Set Design, Visual Effects Design, Interior Design, Theme Park and Theme Architecture Design, and a variety of Traditional and Computer Graphics and Web Design.
Facilities include both a design studio and a model shop. Our research collection includes over a thousand books, over 80 years of National Geographic magazines, numerous periodicals, CD-ROMs, tens of thousands of slides and photographs, an extensive collection of catalogs and samples, file cabinets of clippings, and access to the World Wide Web.
Artist/Mission Statement
Since I was about seven, I have been designing theme parks, film sets, zoos, worlds, and objects. I have never thought of myself as an artist, rather, I see myself as a designer. I see art as something visually pleasing alone, or visually not pleasing, depending on the intent of the artist. I have always designed for usefulness. To me, an object that is made to be used must function well first and then be visually appealing. Too often I have seen buildings that are praised for their design but do not enclose a space effectively or have structural problems. I have seen beautiful houses that I would not want for a home. I have used tools or other objects and wondered why the controls are so hard to reach. I want to design useful environments that also happen to be exciting places to experience.
I feel that my imagination is what makes me a good designer. I am not referring to imagining a good design, instead, I am referring to imagining myself using the object, living in the house, riding the theme park attraction. By so doing, I mentally encounter and solve problems before resources are committed. As a professional model builder for eighteen years, this imagining of a situation has saved me countless hours and materials by anticipating a problem and solving it before using time and materials to pursue a dead end. By the time I start construction, most of the problems are expected and resolved and the model seems to fall together.
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