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broken a widget on your special thing and can’t get a replacement, want to prototype something you have designed yourself or need a part for your scale model? we can print it for you on one of our 3D printers in a variety of plastics and often in just a few hours.

Research by Beverly Nielsen of Birmingham University entitled “Looking for growth, sack the economists and hire a designer” has shown that companies that put design driven innovation at the heart of their strategy significantly out perform the economy. Read the full article here

One of the most important decisions in the development of a new product is what processes should be used in its manufacture. Choice of process will have dramatic effects upon the form and structure of the product If you ask a carpenter to design a chair for you it will be made of wood and if you ask a metal fabricator it’s a fair bet it will be made of metal, ask an industrial designer and it’s a fair bet they will a

We have won a few awards for our design work and we have even designed and built a few awards for others. Jon recently oversaw the design and production of the 2014 Hunter TAFE Awards by design students Sharna, Sam and Pete – well done guys. The awards utilised a unique casting process that was a challenge for all involved, including the foundry; for each award recycled aluminium was cast around a block of recl

Think of all the objects you interact with on a daily basis. Now think about how they affect your daily life. From products to services, industrial design is everywhere. World Industrial Design Day (WIDD) is observed annually on 29 June in recognition of the profession of industrial design. First declared in 2007 on the occasion of the International Congress of Societies of Industrial Design’s, ICSID’s, 5

From beginnings in Melbourne in 1947 as the Society of Designers for Industry, to the incorporation of the Industrial Design Institute of Australia in 1958, to its current form as the Design Institute of Australia  in 1982  –  the DIA has maintained the design professions responsibilities to Australian Society, through standards of professional practice and ethics. We are proud to have been long time members of

We have often heard other designers bemoaning the lack of exciting projects presented by their clients. At neo industrial design all our projects are exciting; because it’s our job to put the excitement into a product – sometimes its not a big innovation that has inherent excitement –  but the excitement is in pushing the product that bit further so it’s better suited to its application, more appealing to

We have moved to larger premises – parking was often a bit of a challenge at our inner city Hamilton office; but now with onsite parking and a larger office / studio and prototyping workshop we are still centrally located only 15 minutes form our old address – that’s 15 minutes closer to the freeway for our out of Newcastle clients. It’s hard to believe but this is our sixth address in Newcast

Neo Industrial Design lead designer Jon Pryer receiving the Award for Excellence and Innovation in  Addressing Sustainability Issues in Design (left to right) Francesca Saccaro, Associate Director OTEN ; Hon Gabrielle Upton MP, Parliamentary Secretary for Tertiary Education and Skills. By thinking about how your product will be made, serviced and used and ultimately disposed of you can do a lot to minimise its enviro

“things which are differnt in order to be differnt are seldom better, but that which is made to be better is almost always differnt” – Dieter Rams Deiter Rams is associated more than anyone with the rational machine aesthetic which characterised German product design post-1945, he was chief designer for Braun from 1961 to 1995. The legacy of Rams’s rational minimalist style has influenced a ge