Tim Prentice (designer)
American motorcycle designer (born 1964)
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Tim Prentice (born c. 1964) is an American industrial designer and president of Motonium Design in California.[1] Prentice holds a B.S. in industrial technology from California State University, Chico (1987) and is a graduate of Art Center College of Design's transportation program (1990).[2] He has also been an instructor at Art Center for industrial design and illustration, as well as a guest lecturer at Stanford University.[2]
Prentice was motorcycle designer of the 2009 Triumph Thunderbird motorcycle,[3][4][5] Mission Motors' 2010 Mission R electric motorcycle,[6] and the 2011 Triumph Speed Triple.[7] Prentice and his firm won the Red Dot and Core77 industrial design awards in 2011 (respectively) for the Mission R.[8][9][10]