From first sketch to production files: concept, colour and material, prototypes you can drop, and drawings the factory agrees with.
Typical timeline
12 weeks to DFM
You hold
Working prototypes
You leave with
Factory-ready files
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The drawing office
From sketch to factory file.
01
Industrial design is where the grid meets gravity. Every part accounted for, every line earning its place.
02
Mechanism before moodboard. The enclosure is drawn around what it has to house.
03
Colour, material and finish, chosen for the production line, not the render.
04
Prototyped, broken, prototyped again. Alongside engineers, never upstream of them.
05
Production files out. The datasheet, unboxing and launch site all come off the same geometry.
What we make.
Industrial design is where the grid meets gravity. We draw physical products with the discipline we bring to a page: every part accounted for, every line earning its place.
01
Concept & product strategy
What it must do and what it must cost, settled before anyone argues about looks.
02
Colour, material & finish
Chosen with the suppliers who will actually make it.
03
Prototyping & testing
Real materials and real assembly. Prototypes you can hold, drop and take apart.
04
Design for manufacture
Tolerances agreed on the drawing, not discovered on the line at 6am.
05
Packaging & documentation
Unboxing, manuals and service guides drawn from the same geometry.
06
Visualisation & launch
Renders, photography direction and the launch site, so the story arrives intact.
How it goesConsultation → launch · 5 phases · zero surprises
Week 001
Brief & feasibility
What the product must do and what it must cost to make, before anyone talks about how it looks.
→A feasibility review the factory agrees with
Weeks 1–302
Concepts
Two or three buildable directions, drawn not rendered, with the honest tradeoffs written beside them.
→Resolved concepts, tradeoffs included
Weeks 3–803
CMF & prototyping
Materials chosen with real suppliers, then prototypes you can hold, drop and take apart.
→Working prototypes and a CMF specification
Weeks 8–1204
Design for manufacture
Production files drawn with the factory and your engineers, not thrown over a wall.
→DFM-ready drawings, tolerances, BOM
Ongoing05
The launch system
Datasheet, packaging, photography and launch site come off the same geometry as the enclosure.
→A product that launches with its story intact
Working with usThe fine print, in bold
The part other studios keep vague.
Working with us is deliberately unexciting in all the ways that matter. Here is exactly what you can hold us to.
01
Engineers in the room
Mechanical and production engineers review from week one, while changes are cheap.
02
Prototypes you can drop
Real materials, real assembly and real failure modes, before tooling.
03
Factory-ready files
Specified the way manufacturers actually ask for them.
Not sure where your project fits? Book the call. Half an hour, no charge, and we’ll tell you honestly if we’re the right office for it.
Fair questions.
The things people usually ask on the first call. If yours is not here, ask us.
We design alongside your engineers or our engineering partners. We own form, CMF and DFM detailing; structural and electronic engineering stay with specialists.
Yes, and we prefer to. We review drawings with your manufacturer from the concept stage.
After the first call you get a fixed fee for the first phase, so you can stop at any gate.
Always, before the first real conversation about the product.
Who we do it for.
Sectors where we know the buyers, the constraints and the shortcuts. If yours is not listed, the first call costs nothing.