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===Walter Dorwin Teague Associates=== As early as his first Kodak designs, Teague had accumulated a team of expert associates. By 1938, Teague's office grew to 55 employees, including architects, engineers, 3D artists and industrial designers. Teague had also signed his first design retainer contract with Polaroid, culminating in the development of the Land Camera, the first camera able to develop its own prints, introduced in 1948.<ref name=fifty/><ref name=QtrCen/> In 1945, when Teague's growing studio of designers, architects and technicians was supplemented with an engineering division, Teague changed his company structure from a sole proprietorship to a partnership, allowing senior staff to be partners in Walter Dorwin Teague Associates.<ref name="bionotes">Biographical Notes of Walter Dorwin Teague; Walter Dorwin Teague Associates, New York, 1951; Print, Teague Archives, accessed 2010 and 2011.</ref> In 1946, Frank Del Giudice (who would later become the company's president<ref name="regan">Bartel, Bill, and Tom Webb, "White House in the Sky," ''The Seattle Times'', September 25, 1988.</ref>) represented WDTA in seeking commissions from [[The Boeing Company]], not only commencing WDTA's lasting relationship with Boeing, but the company's substantial impact in aerospace.<ref name=fifty/><ref name="boeinglink">"Design Firm's Boeing Link in 20th Year," ''Seattle Daily Times'', May 28, 1965.</ref> By 1959, WDTA's client list included Ac'cent, Polaroid, Schaefer Beer, Procter & Gamble, UPS, Steinway, General Foods Corporation, Boeing, Con Edison, Du Pont, US Steel, NASA, and the US Navy.<ref name=T80/> A 1959 Fortune survey reported that WDTA was then second in gross revenue among those industrial design firms also doing architecture and interior design (Raymond Loewy Associates was first).<ref name=fifty/> Accredited with iconic designs such as the UPS truck, Pringles Potato Chips canister, Scope Mouthwash bottle, Reagan-era ''Air Force One'', Polaroid Land Camera,<ref name=T80/> and more. Walter Dorwin Teague Associates is now known as [[Teague (company)|Teague]]. The privately held Seattle-based company is most commonly recognized today for its work in consumer electronics, aviation, digital, virtual reality, and autonomous vehicle interaction design. Its clients include [[Microsoft]], [[Hewlett-Packard]], [[Samsung]], [[Panasonic Corporation|Panasonic]], and Boeing, and projects such as the [[Xbox (console)|Xbox]] and the [[Boeing 787 Dreamliner]].
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