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ABC Radio Newcastle works through the alphabet looking at a different profession each week. This week was I for Industrial Designer; the ABC Morning Programs Paul Turton spoke to our lead designer Jon Pryer. Paul “So what is industrial design” Jon “That’s THE question……….  an industrial designer provides the contact surfaces between the mechanics of a product and the user 

Jon Pryer of neo industrial design was recently invited to speak at the Hunter Net Advanced Manufacturing Seminar. Jon spoke of the importance of using good deign process if you want to get the most out of your product and the most out of your manufacturing potential, however advanced. He exampled two products which neo industrial design developed for local clients and which are now dominant in their product categori

An increasing number of our smaller and individual clients are using crowd funding to get their ideas from a design into production, production usually being the most expensive bit of the exercise. So what is crowd funding? Crowd funding is an online tool for exposing your design to a large number of potential investors, and raising the capital to implement it from a large number of low risk modest investors rather t

Innovators are often wary of disclosing their ideas or intellectual property (IP) to people who can develop them further for fear of having them “stolen” – this is where a nondisclosure or confidentiality agreement is useful. Nondisclosure agreements can be “one – way”; where only one party discloses confidential information or “mutual”; if both parties wish their discl

World Industrial Design Day is observed annually on 29 June. First declared in 2007 on the 50th anniversary of the International Congress of Societries of Industrial Design, World Industrial Design Day was established with the aim of promoting awareness of the profession of industrial design and  highlighting the impact of industrial design on economic, social, cultural and environmental quality of life.

Plastic parts made by rotational moulding are typically on the large and very large end of plastic products, such as the water tanks we designed for Formit Services.  The moulding process is slow so it is good for moderate volume production and tooling relative to the size of the part is quite cheap. Rotationally moulded parts, being typically large and bulky to ship, are one of the areas of manufacturing where local

The world’s longest-serving car goes out of production The Land Rover Defender, the Land Rover is going out of production in 2015. Since 1948 Land Rover has offered  new car buyers what is now the world’s oldest vehicle (depending on specification it’s not technically a car). The design for the original Land Rover vehicle was started in 1947 by Maurice Wilks, chief designer at Rover,  on his farm on the i

Tragically a large number of toddler drownings occur around the home, pools are an obvious risk but approximatly 8% of toddler drownings occur in buckets.The traditional bucket safety solution is labeling, warning of the danger – unfortunately this does not make the bucket any safer it merely alerts those who bother to read any labeling of the danger and toddlers generally can’t read…….. in an

We found this Lego model of our police prisoner transport design posted on a Lego builder forum recently – awesome work by Criga88 Follow Griga88’s work here : http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=96193 More than 400 billion Lego bricks have been produced since 1958. There are about 62 Lego bricks per person of the Earth’s population. Check out the video below to see how that happened

Long awaited by fans Sony Pictures has announced an early 2015 start for production of the next Ghostbuster movie. Click here for the full article. Back in the 1989 neo industrial design partners Jon and Heather, another Melbourne industrial designer Kevin Mooney and model maker John Bibby built a replica Ghost Buster ECTO 1A car for Greater Union; to travel around Australia promoting the release of the sequel Ghostb