DAN STURGES (www.frogdesign.com) Director of frogdesign's Mobility Group, Sturges works to support automotive and transportation companies such as Fiat's Lancia Division and Ford's new environmentally friendly Th!nk Mobility division in their efforts to rethink mobility for the Information Age. Sturges looks at how travel demand is changing as a result of the Internet and what new possibilities for personal mobility are likely to emerge. Trained as an automotive designer, Sturges left his job at General Motors in 1988 to create small vehicles to fill the gap between the motor scooter and the automobile. By the age of 29, he had started his own car company (trans2) to build Neighborhood Electric Vehicles (over 5,000 now built). Sturges has been widely recognized by the media for his pioneering efforts and was selected as one of the top 40 designers in the U.S. by I.D. magazine in 1993 and has been featured in Automobile magazine and The Wall Street Journal. In 1998, Wired took Sturges around the United States for a week to observe the future of transportation, resulting in a 10-page story. In September of 1999, Sturges presented his ideas at the Museum of Modern Art in New York at its symposium on the Future of the Automobile.