Sam Hecht

{{Short description|British industrial designer}}

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Sam Hecht {{post-nominals|country=GBR|small|RDI}}, born in London 1969, is a British industrial designer. Hecht and his partner Kim Colin are the founders of a London design studio called Industrial Facility. Clients include Muji, Yamaha, LaCie, Emeco, Established & Sons, Issey Miyake, Epson, Magis, Lexon, Whirlpool, and Wästberg.

He has taught at the Royal College of Art and as visiting professor of Karlsruhe University in Germany.

Hecht and Colin's work is held in museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.{{Cite web |title=Sam Hecht {{!}} MoMA |url=https://www.moma.org/artists/22582 |access-date=2022-10-09 |website=The Museum of Modern Art |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Sam Hecht |url=https://www.centrepompidou.fr/fr/programme/agenda/evenement/cRRBpkX |access-date=2022-10-09 |website=Centre Pompidou |language=fr-FR}}

Designs by Hecht and Colin have received numerous prizes including six iF Gold Awards.[http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2006/09/sam-hechts-talk.php Sam Hecht's talk at the Simplicity symposium - we make money not art][http://www.industrialfacility.co.uk/ Industrial Facility][http://www.designmuseum.org/design/industrial-facility Industrial Facility / The European Design Show : - Design/Designer Information]{{Cite web |title=iF - Sam Hecht |url=https://ifdesign.com/en/if-design-award-and-jury/jury/profile/sam-hecht/7750 |access-date=2022-10-09 |website=ifdesign.com |language=de}}

Hecht and Colin were appointed Royal Designers for Industry in the United Kingdom in 2008 and 2015, respectively.{{Cite web |title=Royal Designers for Industry |url=https://www.royaldesignersforindustry.org/ |access-date=2022-10-09 |website=Royal Designers for Industry |language=en}}

In 2019 Phaidon Press published a monograph about Industrial Facility’s work.{{Cite book |last=Hecht |first=Sam |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1007055558 |title=Industrial Facility |date=2018 |isbn=978-0-7148-7579-8 |location=London |oclc=1007055558}}