After high school, Saez spent three years studying architecture and city planning before taking off to Europe. There, he met his future wife, Anne Marie, an American, whom he followed back to her Greenwich home. May. He likes industrial design better than architecture because it deals more with objects than space. Charles Meehan, an industrial designer from Strategic Design Corp. in Fairfield, calls the profession a combination of inventor, engineer, artist and psychologist. It's an interesting career and you really need a complex set of talents to do it.
New ideas are hard to get across.
A lot of people don't like change. Saez adds juggler to the list. He usually works on at least three projects at any time. His current class assignment is to develop a bathroom accessory. At last year's Greater New York Automobile Dealers Association's Safety Design Competition, UB received seven out of eight of the awards.