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We’ve been been digging deep into the industrial design and mechanical engineering for the teapot. Continue reading Kicker Tea Project: Industrial Design Refinement and Mechanical Engineering >>

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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. Continue reading Kicker Tea Project: Selecting a Direction, Functional Cartography >>

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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. Continue reading Kicker Tea Project: Competitive Analysis, Design Principles, and Initial Concepting >>

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As consultants who specialize in new technology, a lot of our work is under NDA, so every once in a while, we do a project just for ourselves, to strut. (Last year it was the Kicker Conference Phone.) This time, we wanted to design a product for the home and we focused on an activity many of us enjoy: tea drinking. Continue reading Kicker Tea Project: Introduction >>

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Our colleagues Matt Jones and Jack Schulze at BERG have produced concept videos of a future digital magazine reading device for Bonnier R&D. Kicker Studio is working on expanding their concepts into a robust, interactive prototype over the next several months. Continue reading Mag+ Concept Video >>

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Last week, we presented our top five concepts to our clients at SVA (you can sneak a peek at the thumbnail sketches). The concepts ranged from manipulating 3D objects to ambient hanging objects that projected images to monitors that viewed invisible objects. Continue reading Projects in Process: SVA IxD Dept. Installation, Scoping >>

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We’ve been brainstorming (and thinking about possible product metaphors) for the last several days to come up with concepts that meet the project requirements, including the important one that this installation not be just a slideshow of student work. One technique we’ve used was to brainstorm around objects that you might find in hallways. Continue reading Projects in Process: SVA IxD Dept. Installation, Brainstorming >>

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