Concept Development
When you need a solution
Problems solved and ideas brought to life - the first stage of any concept is robust conversation and alignment before any pen touches paper. We work directly with stakeholders and project managers to minimize confusion. Brainstorming, design workshops, research, we do whatever it takes to make sure we have all the information possible to ensure our clients receive thoughtful, informed, and thorough concepts.
Product Design
Making a product out of a problem
After a concept direction is defined, the next step is taking it from sketch to product. Our designers love to create anything from packages to furniture, consumer electronics to soft goods, testing rigs to thermoformed trays. We always keep our client’s needs and desires top of mind to ensure that we are always pursuing their goals, not substituting our own. There is nothing we enjoy more than bringing innovation to life.
Design For Manufacturing
The final step before reality
With our extensive manufacturing knowledge, our clients can rest assured that their products are producible from the start; we don’t believe in designing things that can’t be made. Pushing boundaries and exploring new technologies? Yes. Surprising engineers and project managers with a design that requires weeks of rework to be manufactured? No. We can be your manufacturing partner, working with third parties to finalize CAD, maintain design integrity, and seamlessly deliver results for our clients. We take on production headaches so you don’t have to.
Rendering and Visualization
like it’s a photo
CAD screenshots just don’t cut it. Whether you need to see a product in context or want to compare CMF (color, material, finishes), nothing beats a rendering. We take existing CAD models or create our own to meet your needs, visualizing products and concepts as realistically as possible. Using professional grade imaging capabilities we can also capture custom environments to situate your product within.
Physical Prototypes
one in the hand
Sometimes seeing is believing, but more often touching is. Utilizing both in-house capabilities and trusted third-party partners, we can create any level of prototype necessary to prove out our designs. Low fidelity FDM prototypes can be produced quickly and inexpensively to evaluate volume or prove-out functionality. Realistic models can be created to mimic actual materials, print and embellishing styles, weight, functionality, and can even be food-safe; we can help you make anything required for internal review, sales samples, or consumer research.
Packaging
Not just cardboard boxes
Oft overlooked by traditional industrial design firms, packaging has changed a lot in or new e-commerce world, but it is still important. We can make it pretty, strong, cheap, or any combination thereof; no matter the situation we have packaging experience to draw from. Our paper-based expertise includes cartons, shippers, retail ready, e-comm, and displays with further research into molded pulp, plastic replacement, and ship-in-own-container. Ask us how we can help you meet sustainability goals, reduce weight without sacrificing strength, or save you some money with material and structural optimization. We can work with our trusted partners to test evaluate material options and virtually simulate supply chain stress to save time and increase confidence.