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Neo Industrial Design and Your Engineer of Newcastle developed the design concept for the Concourse Golfs Smart Wheel which recently helped it gain support from the Victorian government to  shift manufacture from China to the Melbourne company SRX in the suburb of Dandenong where minister Minister for Industry and Employment Wade Noonan announced the creation of nearly 200 new Australian manufacturing jobs, in a subu

We are currently designing a range of traditional boats in kit form for Óslo Bøatyard. A close collaboration of traditional form and the sensibilities of two generations of traditional timber boat builders with 21st century computer modelling and  computer controlled manufacture. We have designed the the boats to be faithful to traditional form and values but requiring negligible skill to put together. This is the fi

We recently provided design expertise assisting the designers at Varley Specialised Vehicles in the development of an updated version of the innovative plastic Australian police prisoner wagon we previously designed.   The original iconic prisoner pod was quite a development leap from the previous canvas covered cages and would be one of our most widely recognized designs – seen in all the wrong places. an

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 

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

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

“The Shape of Things to Come” – its a prophetic book by H. G. Wells made into a disturbingly prophetic movie by Alexander Caulder and was the marketing slogan for the Triumph TR7. The TR7 was the replacement for the aging TR6, designed primarily with an eye to the US market it was Triumph’s first hard top production sports car and anticipated scheduled US safety legislation banning convertible

Jon is principal designer of neo industrial design. Jon comes form a long line of  “makers”; carpenters, builders, cabinet makers and boat builders, he first became interested in industrial design through a family friend the UK industrial designer Eric Kemp before studing Sculpture and Industrial design at Victoria College, Melbourne. His career started with five years managing the design department of De