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A bench needs an end table. Coco has been hard at work on putting together the design for the matching end table. Here are the results.
The wings on either side are a place to put personal items, maybe a book or a flashlight. The top surface can hold a plate, drinks or cell phone.
Putting it all together makes for a comfortable evening by the fire.
MORRISVILLE & PINEHURST, N.C.–Innovation and commercialization firm Montie Design (www.montie.com) will be participating in the 2013 NCDBA (North Carolina Defense Business Association) Expo & Symposium April 9 at the Pinehurst Resort as an exhibitor, showcasing competencies of interest to defense industry contractors. By actively participating in this well-respected annual event, Montie Design is able to lend insight and experience to conversations among attendees on best practices essential to achieving excellence in product design. “We’re pretty active in the NCDBA community as event participants and committee members as it helps us showcase our core competencies in mechanical engineering, industrial design, engineering analysis, prototyping, and product commercialization” Montie Roland, company president, said. Continue reading “Montie Design Participating in 2013 NCDBA Expo & Symposium April 9”
Morning,
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Cheers,
Montie
coco and her assignment
I am coco, an industrial design graduate student at NCSU. I am an intern at Montie Design this winter. I am now working on the outdoor wood bench design. This bench design focuses on the customer need which has a hanger for people to put their back packs and their coat when they feel hot and a hook for people to hang on the garbage when they talk with their family member and take some snacks.
sketching
The following picture shows how the concept developed. Fist I have three different ideas about the bench and then narrow down to one idea. Secondly I started to have different styling about the concept and at last I decided the assemble method.
final design
This is the outdoor bench. In order to matches the whole environment, the design comes from the tree branch and also matches the function of it.
The higher one on the right is the hanger of the coats or backpacks. The small one on the left is hook for people to hang on the garbage bag or other paper or plastic bags. The first purpose of this bench is setting around the camping fire. So at the bottom of the bench, there is a shelf for people to store the fire wood.
In this podcast I share how to dig in and understand a marketplace. Understanding is key to designing products that fit with the needs and desires of a specific market.
This prepping series of podcasts came about through a lot of research. Understanding your customer on this level helps you better design and engineer products for that customer and avoid mistakes that occurred because of a lack of understanding of the customer and market. This prepper market is very interesting. I hope this podcast is engaging on a personal level and gives you great examples of how to put a market into a context that helps you design better products for that market.
If you like how we think at Montie Design; please give me a call or email so we can help your company with your next product or prototype!
Have a great weekend,
Montie
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Inventors often come to us and say “I just need a prototype.” Lets take a look at how we can get that prototype to you.
Understanding your customer is an important part of a successful part of a new product. Lets take a few minutes and chat about how to do just that. This podcast looks at one specific market (Preppers / emergency preparedness / life skills / self reliance) in detail. Learn how to step out of your comfort zone and look a market that you may have been exposed to before.
Cheers,
Montie
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I’m Daniel Lecky, a 2012 graduate from NCSU College of Design, and I am an intern here at Montie Design. This project was an idea I had to add to the line of Montie Gear products. Introducing, the Survival Hatchet! It is a 10.6″ long Hatchet with a long para-chord wrapped handle with a knife, magnesium and flint for fire starting and a whet stone for sharpening the blade, all concealed in the hatchet’s sheath. Below are a series of sketches and images from conceptual to ideation to modeling stages.
Here I thought of concealing a spear head along with fishing wire and matches within the handle but it would be too awkward to get to everything quickly and comfortably.
The blade is too large and there is a concern about stability with there being such a sharp angle right under the blade.
Solving the stability issue, this new version of the hatchet has a unique angle to the handle and a solid look.
These are a series of Sheath sketches to determine how the knife and assorted survival stones can be packaged together.
Here is a print out of the 3D model with sheath sketches. The sheath is drawn on top of the drawing with specific components labeled and sent off to a leather shop to construct the case. However, the hatchet was too heavy and bulky. Redesign!
The Survival Hatchet! It is much slimmer, weighing 1.45lbs as opposed to the previous 2.4lbs, yet still very solid and structurally sound. There are spaces provided for a Carabiner clip or rope to loop through to carry the hatchet. There are also small holes for the paracord to tie through.
Hello my name is Luca Harrell and I am currently a summer intern at Montie Design. As the winner of the 2012 Montie Gear student competition, I’ve been asked to develop my contest submission into a product that will be added to the Montie Gear product line. I’m very excited about this opportunity and am equally excited to share my progress with you. Through weekly blog posts, I’ll document the process of my product’s development from concept to prototype through pictures, sketches, and 3D models. In today’s post you can see how I kicked off the project with a project brief, a rough project plan, and research. Feel free to give feedback or comment on what you see. Hope you enjoy!
Project link here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/96159347/Presentation-1
(Morrisville, N.C.) Montie Design, an innovative concept-to-marketplace product design and development firm, has expanded its product realization toolset with the purchase of a rotational molder. The new equipment allows the firm to produce prototypes of small rotationally molded parts and follow up with limited production runs of client parts. Continue reading “Montie Design Expands Product Realization Toolset with Addition of Rotational Molding”
(Spring Creek & Morrisville, N.C.) Montie Design, an innovative concept-to-marketplace product design and development firm, today announced it will be holding a Winter 2012 Student Design Contest for aspiring product designers in community colleges, four-year colleges, or high schools from North Carolina and Virginia. Initial submissions are due on Feb 1, 2012 with final submissions due on Feb 29, with full details available online at www.montie.com/contest. Continue reading “Montie Design Announces Winter 2012 Student Design Contest”
Earlier in the year we sponsored a student design contest for students in NC and Virginia. Josh Little was the first place winner. Josh is an Industrial Design student at NCSU. It worked out that Josh was able to spend the first part of the summer commercializing his entry, a locking rack for assault rifles. His design allows owners to safetly exhibit their rifles while keeping them secure and out of the hands of unauthorized users.
We don’t have a prototype to show you yet but the document below helps explain where we are headed with the design.