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Our latest news, our biggest projects, and our best resources. Everything you need to know about hiring and working efficiently with a product development partner.
Happy Solar Eclipse 2017!
photo credit: Benjamin T. Fredricks using his Android phone
Fredricks Design, Inc. Welcomes Rogerio Miguel Back to Our Team!
We are excited to announce the addition of Rogerio Miguel, Design Engineer + MBA to our team effective June 30, 2017. Rogerio worked with us from 2000-2002 before returning to Brazil. He brings deep and diverse automotive experience and advanced degrees in business,...
Furniture and Work Space Insights
City planning for the work space. We commissioned a research and ideation project to explore the correlation between city planning and the design of work environments. The findings from this study supported our premise that any work environment is a landscape of...
How to Plan, Develop and Deliver a Show Property
Well, it's now only 48 days until the doors open at Neocon 2017...yikes! Many of our friends in the furniture business are drag racing to the deadline for installation of show properties and prototypes. Wash, rinse and repeat...it's the same every year. The furniture...
Fredricks Design Review: Autoshow 2017 Insights
source for images: Adient.com Autoshow 2017 insights | Adient AI17 Demonstrator Our first stop at the NAIAS Detroit Autoshow this year was at the Adient showroom. We were invited to tour the showroom by the Adient Studio Team based in Plymouth, Michigan. We were...
CES and Auto Show 2017 Automotive Insights
I've taken a bit of time to reflect on my experience over the past two weeks at CES and Auto Show. The sequential timing of the shows this year was challenging. I am curious about what is going on behind the scenes with the planning teams for both shows. Will the...
Conor Fredricks Joins Our Family Business!
We have some great news to share... Conor Fredricks has joined our family business. Conor graduated from Kendall College of Art and Design in May 2016 and was heavily recruited by design firms and corporations. We reminded him through the rigorous...
Fredricks Design Review 3: Artificial Intelligence
In our previous Fredricks Design Reviews, we've talked about virtual reality and augmented reality. Now, let's get into an even fuzzier area of technology and philosophy: artificial intelligence. The term "artificial intelligence" was coined by a computer...
Fredricks Design Review 2: Augmented Reality
In our last Fredricks Design Review, we took a look at Google Cardboard, an inexpensive gateway to virtual reality. Today, we're going to dig a little deeper into another reality bender called "augmented reality". "But whoa, bro. Isn't all...
Fredricks Design Review 1: Google Cardboard
I had a vivid flashback this morning. During the assembly of a Google Cardboard at my desk, I time-traveled to 1986 and relived the unboxing of my first Nintendo console. The simplicity of the setup and the anticipation of hours of novel...
Happy Solar Eclipse 2017!
photo credit: Benjamin T. Fredricks using his Android phone
Fredricks Design, Inc. Welcomes Rogerio Miguel Back to Our Team!
We are excited to announce the addition of Rogerio Miguel, Design Engineer + MBA to our team effective June 30, 2017. Rogerio worked with us from 2000-2002 before returning to Brazil. He brings deep and diverse automotive experience and advanced degrees in business,...
Furniture and Work Space Insights
City planning for the work space. We commissioned a research and ideation project to explore the correlation between city planning and the design of work environments. The findings from this study supported our premise that any work environment is a landscape of...
How to Plan, Develop and Deliver a Show Property
Well, it's now only 48 days until the doors open at Neocon 2017...yikes! Many of our friends in the furniture business are drag racing to the deadline for installation of show properties and prototypes. Wash, rinse and repeat...it's the same every year. The furniture...
Fredricks Design Review: Autoshow 2017 Insights
source for images: Adient.com Autoshow 2017 insights | Adient AI17 Demonstrator Our first stop at the NAIAS Detroit Autoshow this year was at the Adient showroom. We were invited to tour the showroom by the Adient Studio Team based in Plymouth, Michigan. We were...
CES and Auto Show 2017 Automotive Insights
I've taken a bit of time to reflect on my experience over the past two weeks at CES and Auto Show. The sequential timing of the shows this year was challenging. I am curious about what is going on behind the scenes with the planning teams for both shows. Will the...
Conor Fredricks Joins Our Family Business!
We have some great news to share... Conor Fredricks has joined our family business. Conor graduated from Kendall College of Art and Design in May 2016 and was heavily recruited by design firms and corporations. We reminded him through the rigorous...
Fredricks Design Review 3: Artificial Intelligence
In our previous Fredricks Design Reviews, we've talked about virtual reality and augmented reality. Now, let's get into an even fuzzier area of technology and philosophy: artificial intelligence. The term "artificial intelligence" was coined by a computer...
Fredricks Design Review 2: Augmented Reality
In our last Fredricks Design Review, we took a look at Google Cardboard, an inexpensive gateway to virtual reality. Today, we're going to dig a little deeper into another reality bender called "augmented reality". "But whoa, bro. Isn't all...
Fredricks Design Review 1: Google Cardboard
I had a vivid flashback this morning. During the assembly of a Google Cardboard at my desk, I time-traveled to 1986 and relived the unboxing of my first Nintendo console. The simplicity of the setup and the anticipation of hours of novel...
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Coast-to-Coast Solutions Since 1984.
Industrial Design and Engineering Studio.
