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4 unusual facts about David Kelley


Atlas Shrugged: Part III

David Kelley, founder of The Atlas Society and an expert on the philosophical themes of Atlas Shrugged, will consult on the script, as he did for Parts I and II.

David Kelley

Currently, Kelley is actively involved as a script consultant for Atlas Shrugged: Part III, the third part in a film version of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.

Michael Newberry

He created and organized the Foundation for the Advancement of Art, which held a conference “Innovation, Substance, Vision: The Future of Art” at the Pierre Hotel in Manhattan on October 6, 2003, featuring speakers: philosophers Stephen Hicks and David Kelley, vision scientist Jan Koenderick, and sculptor Martine Vaugel.

The Atlas Society

TAS was founded by philosopher David Kelley as the Institute for Objectivist Studies in 1990.


IDEO

IDEO was formed in 1991 by a merger of four established design firms: David Kelley Design (founded by Stanford University professor David Kelley), London-based Moggridge Associates and San Francisco's ID Two (both founded by British-born Bill Moggridge), and Matrix Product Design (founded by Mike Nuttall).

Mike Nuttall

In 1991, his company merged with two other established design firms, David Kelley Design (founded by David Kelley) and ID Two (founded by Britain's Bill Moggridge) to form the designing giant IDEO.


see also

Metaphor Computer Systems

Both Matrix and David Kelley Design were precursors of IDEO.