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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

“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

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

 trinity:  “neo…… nobody has ever done this before”. neo:     “that’s why it’s going to work”. The Matrix 1999