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Neoindustrialdesign was approached to redesign the packaging for the Sheffield Tool Groups extensive professional hole saw range of kits. With electrician, plumber, locksmith and tradie kits each in 11 and 19 piece sets it was going to require a lot of boxes, with some out of the box thinking however we designed an 11 and a 19 piece box with universal compartments to snugly locate all the wide range of different size

Neo industrial design are finalists for the Lake Macquarie Business Excellence Award for Innovation. The awards winner is announced on the 22nd of July.

Ralf Speth CEO of Jaguar paraphrased Red Adair when the said “if you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design” Good design is cheaper than poor design or no design – because good design adds significantly to the profitability of a product and more than pays for itself. It is a given design objective that the design needs to work and be manufactured cost effectively,

Based in California USA the Callaway Golf Company is the worlds largest manufacture of golf clubs. Based in Newcastle Australia Neo Industrial Design designed the Callaway Concourse III – probably the worlds most compact three wheel golf cart.   In 2013 we designed the Concourse II the worlds most compact two wheel golf cart – read it’s devlopment story here Newcastle………. coal

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

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

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