Category Archives: Industrial Design

Kicker Studio marked our 3rd Anniversary on August 8, 2011. To celebrate, we hosted the Second Annual Device Design Day at the San Francisco Art Institute, Jody’s alma matter. It was a great success thanks to inspiring speakers and involved attendees. Couldn’t make it? Don’t worry, we’ve posted videos of the talks for you to [...]

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Here’s a whiskey glass by Kacper Hamilton * for Ballentine’s: A hole in a glass is often a prank. In this case, it is the core of the design: the shape of this glass practically insists the drinker unconsciously swirl the whiskey, which is how we’re supposed to drink it, anyway. Doing so increases enjoyment [...]

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A talk by Dan Harden at Kicker Studio’s 2010 Device Design Day.

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A talk by Gretchen Anderson at Kicker Studio’s 2010 Device Design Day.

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A talk by Stuart Karten at Kicker Studio’s 2010 Device Design Day.

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Our first video from the 2010 Device Design Day, featuring Kim Goodwin and Michael Voege. Interaction designers and industrial designers are kindred spirits in many ways, yet we tend to lean on somewhat different skills, biases, and design approaches. Many teams struggle with these differences, and the results of that struggle are visible in the [...]

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For the past two months, we’ve been racing forward on our tea project with a concept we dubbed The Hourglass. But no longer.

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We’ve been been digging deep into the industrial design and mechanical engineering for the teapot.

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We didn’t pay too much attention to it at the time, since it was one sketch out of the dozens we made, and we were focusing a lot for a time on a tea stick concept instead of a tea pot. But one of our industrial designers, Emily, remembered the idea and worked up some sketches around what became known as the H— concept.

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As our tea project progresses, we’re looking at many of the products in the space and what people are saying about them, focusing on forms, materials, and any issues tea drinkers have encountered.

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