Last year we received a series of fixture design requests centered around one user question: How to hold small slippery objects in mid-air for color measurement. While investigating this design task one fact was immediately obvious: A loosely held object Read more…
When we first received the call to design a magazine targeted at the Textile and Apparel industry, we were intimidated. Our client wanted to break away from their usual corporate design language and move toward a more flashy and playful Read more…
About a week ago we learned that a local New Jersey design company called Tangible Creative was part of a massive volunteer effort to provide face shields to NYC hospitals. We were even more intrigued to learn that they had Read more…
Medical staff members are being asked to make their surgical and N95 masks last for as long as possible. We are hearing nurses report that masks are being reused for periods of a week or longer, if they are lucky Read more…
It is difficult to know how to act or how to prepare for the near future when so much is uncertain. We’ve heard this pandemic described by some as “The Apollo mission of our time”. It took the coordinated efforts Read more…
Recently a talented designer friend of ours lamented that he has “spent years just designing boxes for things”. As simple and mundane as that sounds, each enclosure project poses unique challenges for product designers. Teams developing benchtop instruments or electronic Read more…
The year is 2006. A tall blond woman stands on top of her pickup truck as 300 wild mustangs gallop toward her. The horses can smell water from miles away, and her truck is filled with water. The dust cloud Read more…
We joined the Spyder5 project after the original industrial design company dropped the project midway through. The task in front of us was to fit a newly developed optical module into a housing design that had been worked over for Read more…
We were contacted about this project while in the middle of a move from Yunnan, China, to Tokyo, Japan. This would be the first of several projects that made us realize the need to invest in prototyping machines to minimize Read more…
How often do we find work that we love? Few people end up doing what they love for their entire career. Sometimes, through a combination of interest, determination and circumstance, these happy few achieve mastery in their craft. At Zaic Design, Read more…
