Bran Ferren
Bran Ferren is an American technologist, artist, architectural designer, vehicle designer, engineer, lighting and sound designer, visual effects artist, scientist, lecturer, photographer, entrepreneur, and inventor. Ferren is the former President of Research and Development of Walt Disney Imagineering as well as founder of Associates & Ferren, a multidisciplinary engineering and design firm acquired in 1993 by Disney. He is Chief Creative Officer of Applied Minds, which he co-founded in 2000 with Danny Hillis.
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- Born in
- New York City
- Educated at
- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyAmerican Community School at BeirutMcBurney SchoolEast Hampton High School
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1953
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