ROGOV has over 25 years of history linked to the work and travels of Vladymir Rogov, its founder. You'll notice the "ROGOV look and feel" is very familiar, like the products of some of the world's most recognized companies. Just look around your home, office, department store, or even the tools of your cable TV guy. And, chances are you'll see the work or the influence of ROGOV.

ROGOV owes its existence to the creative vision and inspirational teaching of its founder, Vladymir Rogov. And, the team at ROGOV continues to make its mark around the world with strategic identity development of not just the products but the look and feel of an entire company.

Vladymir's world of design started near Hanover, Germany, where he was born, and continues in San Diego, California. Vladymir is known for many things, not the least of which is his role as an innovator and teacher in the business impact of strategic identity development of entire companies. Here are a few milestones in Vladymir's life and the history of ROGOV.

1948: Vladymir was born to Russian parents near Hanover on the east/west border in post war West Germany. As a youth, he spoke German at school, Russian at home and Polish on the street. He played in the war-torn German streets and countryside, and attended a German School.

1959: Vladymir won a scholarship and left Germany to begin school and a new life in the south of England.

1961: Vladymir learned English, painted a nativity mural at School, and was featured on British TV - BBC Panorama News Program. Legendary interviewer Richard Dimbleby interviewed Vladymir and taken with the youth, later sent him his first set of oil paints.

1962: Vladymir's other passion, music, lead him to design and build his first electric guitar.

1968: Vladymir accepted and completed his studies at Guilford School of Art (now Surrey Institute of Design) in 3 Dimensional Design.

1971: His first professional design works were trade exhibit booths and pavilions at Beverly Pick Associates in London. Clients included: Chrysler, Fiat, Ford, EMI and Rank Xerox.

1972: Invited to join Terrence Conran where among many designs he created houseware product lines for Habitat (UK), space heaters for National Coal Board (UK), kitchenware for Marks and Spencer (UK), door furniture for Bief Plast (Italy), etc.

1975: Vladymir moved to Canada and shared his skills with leading Canadian industrial designers, KAN in Toronto.

1976: Designed the classic Aston Martin Lagonda's interior seating and outfitting. Aston Martin Lagonda was the hit of 1977 Earls Court Motor Show.

1977: Created the look and feel of the early self service gas station for Imperial Oil (EXXON). Its ubiquitous "self service" picturegram gas filling instructions were an influence throughout the industry for years to come.

He designed Coleman cooler product lines for European and North American markets.

Vladymir shared his European design discipline with students at Ontario College of Art, Toronto; Fanshaw College of Art, London; Connestoga College, Kitchener and Georgian College in Barry.

1980: Vladymir as musician made music albums, which still receive air play around the world. With his band, ARKITEX, he performed his music at "Heatwave", the legendary Canadian Rock Festival equivalent of "Woodstock". ARKITEX lined up with Talking Heads, Elvis Costello, The Pretenders and the B52 's.

1981: Designed his first Music Synthesizer. Stevie Wonder, upon touching instrument in New York said "Man ,I sure love the looks of this!". Won Design Canada Award.

San Diego the "landmark location"

1983: Vladymir traveled to California, identified San Diego as the "landmark" location to form ROGOV International Design.

1984: First computer look & feel designed for local Kaypro. But, Kaypro disregarded ROGOV's concept and advice and proceeded on a long painful slide to bankruptcy.

1985: Scientific Atlanta came to ROGOV for portable test instrument design.

1988: Gen-Probe, San Diego's first biotech startup went public with ROGOV's look and feel for it's product packaging and instrumentation.

It pays for a product to be perceived as high-class instead of bargain basement image, you can get more for it"- David Ogilvy.

1990 Eastman Kodak got the ROGOV's look and feel also for its motion analysis product.

Casio became ROGOV's first Japanese client. ROGOV designed Casio's musical instruments, accessories and clocks.

ROGOV presented: "Style - Marketing Magic" philosophy to American Electronics Association as San Diego companies moved from DOD to commercial product marketers.

WAVETEK - ROGOV created look and feel strategy for product line.

1992: ROGOV designed look and feel and built CCT Imaging System for Thermo Electron Technologies. Boosting stock prices and Wall Street's confidence.

ROGOV International Design was established as the foremost strategic design center of San Diego.

1993: Samsung become ROGOV's first Korean client.

Hewlett Packard printer was designed by ROGOV.

Hitachi become a ROGOV client.

Allis Electronics was ROGOV's first Taiwanese client.

Sony become a ROGOV client.

Hughes got look & feel for wire bonder.

Consistently recognized with awards from around the world, ROGOV’s research, planning, industrial design and engineering has been helping companies create compelling ideas, designs and consumer experiences for nearly a three dozen years.

1996: Harris Corporation marketed connectionless LAN Monitor with the ROGOV touch.

1997: Yamaha came to ROGOV for point-of-purchase display design.

1998: More creations in the months and years to come.