Archive for 'Industrial Design'

We’re busy, and we’d love your business too!

Since giving talks for the Inventor’s Alliance in Sacramento and Menlo Park (at TechShop!) We’ve become VERY busy (a great thing!) We are now offering a package to new clients that is simple, straightforward, and direct. Two hundred bucks, for 2 hours. What you say?! You’re a small company, or a single inventor looking to [...]

Product Development., hobby vs. professional (and inventors)

Product Development., hobby vs. professional (and inventors)

Wednesday I received this email from my friend Pamela Slim over at www.escapefromcubiclenation.com (she’s awesome,, visit her site often, also her coaching prices are great and she really helps (and yes, I pay full price for her amazing help)). Here’s what she sent me: “I would like to share this (took off the name to [...]

Dave Seah, brilliant, and vastly more organized than you

Dave Seah in San Jose

Ok, so Dave is probably going to hurt me for using the picture at the bottom of this article, but he’s got funny ones of me too, while we sat Sunday at Coffee Society in San Jose (he was in town from the East Coast on a project, and chatted about our respective plights. David [...]

Vote for your favorite designs then go Visit the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum!

Vote for your favorite designs then go Visit the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum!

So a few years ago I worked for a company called Sharper Image as a designer, (maybe you’ve heard of them?) Their iconic piece the “Ionic breeze” is up for a Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum People’s Design Award. This is a piece that has been around for years and everyone knows it by sight. Great lines, [...]