Mark W. Fuller

For other people named Mark Fuller, see Mark Fuller (disambiguation).

Mark W. Fuller is president and CEO of WET, a fountain and water feature design firm in Los Angeles, California. The experiential water features designed by his company can be found at landmarks around the world.

Biography

As part of his undergraduate thesis in Civil Engineering at the University of Utah, Fuller developed a large-scale laminar-flow nozzle that has since been used extensively in WET’s water features.[1] Before founding WET, Fuller worked as an Imagineer for The Walt Disney Company, applying the technology he developed as an undergraduate, and had refined as a graduate student at Stanford, to create Disney’s “Leapfrog” fountain feature at Epcot Center.[2]

Fuller co-founded WET in 1983 and the company now holds more than 50 patents. The company employs about 200 employees of various disciplines — designers, architects, engineers, scientists, cinematographers and others.

He and his creative design firm are known for notable water features that include the Fountains of Bellagio, The Dubai Fountain, the CityCenter in Las Vegas and The Waters of the Olympic Park, featured in Sochi, Russia (designed for the 2014 Winter Olympics), as well as others.

In 2010, Mark received the Themed Entertainment Association’s Thea Lifetime Achievement Award,[3] and was named one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People.[4] Later that year, The New Yorker called him, “the closest thing the world has to a fountain genius”.[5]

Fuller was featured in The New York Times’s "Corner Office" business feature[6] in 2011, spoke at Salt Lake City’s first TEDx on the topic of "Design Disintegration".[7] and was inducted into the Utah Technology Council’s Hall of Fame.[8]

WET Design received the American Institute of Architects’s “Allied Professions Honor Award", a Los Angeles Architecture Award for Landscape Architecture[9][10] and Images of Universal Design Excellence Project Award. The company has also been named one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in 2010[11] and has been featured in Interior Design,[12] The New York Times,[6][13] theLos Angeles Times[14][15] and CBS News Sunday Morning.[16]

References

  1. ↑ Berry, Richard. "It’s Only Water: Vol. 9, Issue 32". CNC Machining. Archived from the original on 2007-12-20. Retrieved 2008-05-21.
  2. ↑ Lester, Margot Carmichael. "Big Splash: November 4, 2002". Los Angeles Business Journal. Retrieved 2008-05-22.
  3. ↑ "Recipients". Themed Entertainment Association. Retrieved April 25, 2014.
  4. ↑ "Most Creative People in Business 2010". Fast Company (Fast Company). June 2010. Retrieved April 25, 2014.
  5. ↑ Seabrook, John (January 11, 2010). "Water Music: The Fountain Architect Who Gave Water a Voice". The New Yorker (Condé Nast Publishing).
  6. 1 2 Bryant, Adam (April 17, 2011). "Corner Office: Mark Fuller — WET Design and the Improv Approach to Listening". The New York Times (The New York Times Company). Retrieved April 25, 2014.
  7. ↑ "TEDxSaltLakeCity - Mark Fuller - Design DisIntegration". TED.com. Retrieved April 25, 2014.
  8. ↑ "UTC Welcomes Stephen Jacobsen and Mark Fuller as Class of 2011 Hall of Fame Inductees". Utah Technology Council. Retrieved April 25, 2014.
  9. ↑ Basulto, David (28 July 2010). "2010 Los Angeles Architecture Awards". Architecture Daily. Retrieved 1 August 2013.
  10. ↑ "Port of Los Angeles Receives Excellence Award From The Waterfront Center". Port of Los Angeles. 26 October 2009. Retrieved 29 July 2013.
  11. ↑ "Most Innovative Companies — Design". Fast Company (Fast Company). June 2010. Retrieved April 25, 2014.
  12. ↑ Cohen, Edie (June 2010). "Shooting for the Stars". Interior Design (The Crown Publishing Group).
  13. ↑ Pogrebin, Robin (August 26, 2009). "The Lincoln Center Fountain is Being Taught Some New Moves". New York Times (The New York Times Company). Retrieved April 25, 2014.
  14. ↑ Satzman, Darrell (March 14, 2010). "How I Made It: Mark Fuller - A gushing combination of showbiz, engineering". Los Angeles Times (Tribune Company). Retrieved April 25, 2014.
  15. ↑ Dunn, Samantha (May 2, 2010). "Fountain Head". LA Times Magazine (Tribune Company).
  16. ↑ "A Water Sculptor's Biggest Splash Yet". CBSnews.com. Retrieved April 25, 2014.
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