prototyping
Prototyping is a critical part of the product development process, and offers a number of invaluable benefits.

Within the concept and styling development stage of a project, we would almost always suggest a life-size visual model that you, as the client, can pick up and handle, or walk around. We will often start with a quickly built model in 3D CAD, but there's no substitute for a physical model to really get a feel for a product.

As the project progresses, functional aspects of the design become the focus for modelmaking and prototyping, with concept-proving models that may demonstrate moving parts that you interact with when using the product, or internal mechanisms and engineering solutions that are critical to the inner workings.

Finally, we'll commission pre-production prototypes that as closely as possible replicate production materials and techniques to check and finalise the design prior to tooling.