Conceptual 3D Rendering of Vertical SpectraVision for measuring multi-colored, textured and irregular shaped objects

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

By Yumi Zaic, ago

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

By Zaic Design, ago
Zaic Precision Instrument Enclosure 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

By Zaic Design, ago
Spyder 5 Conceptual Design from 3 angles

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

By Yumi Zaic, ago