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Murray laughs with a Daapworks attendee, about a menu item from a Space—A|ien~

themed corndog restaurant concept called AntioBatter, designed by senior Alex Bowman.

the Beatles in my headphones, flying over Lake in chemistry, medicine and physics. This is where I
Michigan, then going to McCormack Place for the became an exhibit designer for the first time.”
boat show.I thought, ‘This is the most glamorous

thing I’ve ever imagined. This is my thing! I will That involved meeting the needs of multiple

do this!” disparate audiences: The Nobel Hall of Science

had to fulfill some of the world’s most renowned

Subsequent co-ops with 3M Co. in St. Paul, Minn., scientists in representing their most brilliant and
and JCPenney in New York City further galvanized complex discoveries, while satisfying the needs of
his aspirations. Graduating in 1975, he headed to rambunctious children who ran through the
Chicago to work with Dave Chapman, a giant of exhibit daily.

industrial design who would later have his own

commemorative postage stamp. Eventually going “That’s when the museum was free, and local kids
to work with Goldsmith, Yamasaki and Specht, would use it as a playground,” said Murray. “We
which grew out of Chapman’s firm, Murray’s brain learned you had to really overbuild things for

was about to be stretched in industrial design and children, because they’re the most destructive force
raw science. on earth: ‘Oh, you think this button won’t break?”
experigntg Seeing l'1OW industrial d€SIgI1€I‘S had t0 think,

“For a year I worked on the Nobel Hall of Science, Muff3Y,5 interest grew.

which was built in Chicagds Museum of Science

and Industry. Once again, very glamorous, because I The Nobel H311 of Science was 3 tribute SP3“ for
got to work with the American Nobel Prize winners the Wefk Of geniuses, but 3150 3 teaching Space f0f >

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