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Ex-art-education-major and ex-architecture-student Nick Blair was at a wedding when he met an industrial designer. Upon hearing the description of the profession, he decided to get a degree in ID.

Later he would audition for, and win, a job as host of Discovery Channel's "Smash Lab," whose team of "the designer, the engineer, the ideas guy and the scientist" conducts outrageous technological experiments (like connecting rockets to trucks as an emergency braking measure) that often end in Bruckheimeresque destruction.

So how did Blair get the job? His audition video, "Nick's Science Omelette," depicted what is often the first project an ID student ever gets: The drop-eggs-from-the-roof-in-a-vessel-of-your-own-design assignment. Who knew?

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via milwaukee journal sentinel