Design
Blog articles on product design, industrial design and creative solutions
3d printing
7 Reasons to Prototype with Zaic Design
Ordering 3D prints and CNC machined parts has become as easy as clicking a few buttons and uploading your STL files. Why use a local prototyping shop like Zaic Design? 1.Confidentiality: When you are designing components for a new product, you need to trust that your drawings will not be Read more…
Automation
Collaborative Robot Integration
A few years ago, Zaic Design teamed up with Enterprise Color Solutions to deliver a turnkey automation system to one of our clients. Here is a brief summary of that project. Case Study: Problem: >20,000 measurement data points needed for a new research and development effort. Each measurement required a Read more…
Design
SpectraVision V: Designing Around Gravity
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 could slip and fall directly into the measurement chamber of Read more…
Design
Magazine Layout that Keeps Readers Hooked
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 aesthetic. As the world leader in color measurement science, Datacolor Read more…
3D Printed Face Shields
Covid Maker Response
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 been pulled into the action by a group of Columbia Read more…
covid-19 response
Design Challenge: Extending the Useful Life of Surgical & N95 Masks
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 enough to have surgical masks at all! A local hospital Read more…
3d printing
COVID-19 Status Update
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 of an estimated 400,000 American workers nearly a decade to Read more…
Design
The Challenges of Enclosure Design
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 appliances of course want something that will set them apart Read more…
Design
Spyder 5: Mechanical Engineering
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 months with the industrial design firm and already had buy-in Read more…