We are proud to be included among a stellar lineup of woman-led design firms in this article from Core77, “20 Woman-led Industrial Design Firms You Should Know”.
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Today we are looking back on a significant project we designed for HIFIMAN, the amplifier of their flagship electrostatic headphone system, dubbed “Shangri-La.”
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We are proud to announce that Carol Catalano and the Capelli Stool will be featured in Woman Made: Great Women Designers by Jane Hall.
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If your product development program is on an extremely compressed schedule, there can be unforeseen risks.
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When designing the handle of the Dexter Outdoors Dextreme fillet knife, we faced an unusual ergonomic challenge.
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We’re excited to announce our collaboration with Dexter Outdoors on the design of their new fillet knife, the Dextreme!
We’ve worked with Dexter on their professional foodservice cutlery, developing several successful designs for many of their knife lines over the past 18 years. This is our first project for their hunting and fishing knives arm, Dexter Outdoors.
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Here’s another throwback to a product we designed with the guitarist in mind.
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Here’s a throwback to the days when tuning a guitar on stage couldn’t be achieved with a smartphone.
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We are collaborating with our client CGX and Avid to experiment with a new flexible material for MJF 3D printing.
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Using publicly available NIOSH data we have created a 3-D library of head sizes for our client, CGX, and our design team.
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Previously, we wrote about designing for additive manufacturing, and how it requires a change of mindset to be most effective.
In this post we are exploring a major advantage of designing for additive that illustrates how a flexible mindset can have huge benefits for design and production. That advantage is the non-assembled part.
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We are experimenting and testing - looking for soft but durable elastomeric materials that can be 3D printed.
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What is it like to design and manufacture a product completely using additive manufacturing (3D printing)?
For the product to be successful, your design and engineering team needs to know HOW to design for additive manufacturing. This does not only mean they must be familiar with the different constraints of each additive process, although that is important.
Truly taking advantage of additive manufacturing requires a change of mindset.
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The CGX Quick-32r EEG headset design is the result of a rewarding yearlong collaboration between Catalano Design (industrial design), Kelly Design and Development (mechanical engineering), and CGX.
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This video is just a fraction of the prototype parts we made during the development of the new CGX Quick-32r EEG headset.
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Here's a unique 3D printed sample showing use of voxels in additive manufacturing. By changing the properties of the voxels on the interior and exterior of the volume, we can 3D print an opaque inner shape surrounded by translucent material, in one operation.
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As designers, a key component of our toolkit is Biomimicry - the study and emulation of ideas found in nature in to solve human challenges.
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Inspiration for our 2021 greeting came from the lodgepole pinecone, both for its unique functionality and the spirals and splines that generate the patterning of its form.
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Often, product design is an evolution of something that already exists, with known functions, forms, and examples already in the marketplace. However, when the goal is invention how does one prove out concepts?
At Catalano Design, we rely on quick-turn prototypes during
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Do you have complex human factors issues to solve for a product? Is your product development team using digital twins? A digital twin is a virtual model of a something that exists in the real world, be it a physical product or service. When linked directly to its real world counterpart, often via data-gathering sensors, a digital twin can diagnose problems, guide a user through a procedure, and even gather data that can lead to new solutions. An example
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