1980 founder ravi sawhney headquarters thousand oaks california u.s. website rksdesign.com rks originally known as rks design is an american industrial design consultancy founded in 1980 by ravi sawhney . notable designs include the original teddy ruxpin 1 2 the panaflex millennium and the rks guitar which was the featured on the july 4 2005 cover of business week . 3 the rks studios and prototyping lab are located in southern california in the conejo valley . 4 rks has been consistently ranked among the top firms by business week . 5 6 7 8 partnerships edit on january 28 2013 rks announced a strategic partnership for interaction design with the finland based software company rightware . 9 references edit pierson john 1999 11 22 . fortune cnnmoney.com style and substance why design matters . money.cnn.com . retrieved 2010 12 12 . 1987 idea award certificate pdf . archived from the original pdf on 2011 10 09 . business week businessweek magazine july 4 2005 stephen j adler . amazon.com . retrieved 2015 02 09 . rks design bringing real feel to prototypes . cncmagazine.com . archived from the original on 2004 11 04 . businessweek idea awards 2003 . businessweek.com . 2003 07 07 . archived from the original on 2003 07 14 . businessweek annual design awards 2005 . businessweek.com . 2005 07 04 . archived from the original on 2005 11 01 . businessweek annual design awards 2006 . businessweek.com . 2006 06 29 . archived from the original on 2007 08 11 . businessweek annual design awards 2008 . businessweek.com . 2008 07 17 . archived from the original on 2008 07 25 . http finance.yahoo.com news rightware rks announce strategic interaction 140000595.html . retrieved april 2 2013 . missing or empty title help dead link external links edit rks retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title rks design & oldid 724434627 categories industrial design firmsdesign companies of the united statesinnovation consulting firmshidden categories pages with citations lacking titlespages with citations having bare urlsall articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from june 2016 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 9 june 2016 at 07 15 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view