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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

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