FERNEKES DESIGNS

I went to high school with a brilliant and ambitious guy named Kevin Parker. We started a company called Powis Parker to produce desktop bookbinding machines and related consumables. The inspiration came from one of our teachers who sold office supplies. We were fascinated by the money spent on rolls of paper with some hot melt glue applied. We built a machine to produce our own brand of bookbinding tape in the basement of his mother's house, and we quickly realized that we could also design a better bookbinding machine. Our machine employed motion control technology to replace the orgy of mechanical parts used in the competitor's (Xerox) machine. Ours was elegant and simple -- the Model 15... I met Stefan Rublowsky while freelancing in NYC. The two of us formed Electrokinetics in 1991 and grew it from just the two of us in a tiny space to a company with over 20 employees. In 1999, we were acquired by Razorfish, a fast-growing internet consulting firm. This was one of the most..

Also known as: Fernekes Designs Inc.

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