Unexpected places your designs have shown up

I had two nice ones today. Right here in the banner above and an ad on an UpWorthy.com news story about the record number of women voted into the senate. Both links to our new sites that my teams designed and with the brand mark that I personally worked on.


I don’t want to freak you out about tracking cookies, but you know that ads appear on your sites based on the sites you’ve been to right?

Hyper-targeting baby.

Also, this would be a good time to pitch the Adblock Plus plugin which blocks ads from most sites. I didn’t even know Core had ads. :smiley:

If you want to really become sketched out, your mobile traffic, location data, and even voice info can and will be used to feed you ads.

I checked with marketing before I posted, the UpWorthy one was a media buy. The c77 one is part of retargeting.

I just found out that one of the products I have been working on will show up in a major video game release which I am very excited about. I feel like I am a car designer that got to do a Gran Trurimo concept car. They got samples and are doing 3d scans can’t wait to see it.

Still cookies. Different users get different ads.

+1 for Adblock Plus, BTW

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Design engine was working with retired buyers from a major hardware outlet store. We were working financially on royalties. As a team we developed several products per month only later to find them on the shelf at the retailer. Asking the buyers what up with this they claimed this is a different skew. The Chinese manufacture changed the product slightly and the buyers saw that product as completely different product skew. Everyone has a different perspective however any product designer would find the resemblance hard to deny.

Made me think of how a DJ steels music and calls it sampling. Happens so much but from the buyer perspective its a competently different product.

SKU = Stock Keeping Unit

Right here on Core77: Desktop-Sized Machine Allows You to Create Your Own 3D Printing Filament - Core77

The spool inside the Next 1.0 filament extruder actually is the very SD 200 K made by Hafner.
http://www.hafner-spools.com

Somehow it has wound up as the de facto standard for FDM printing. Some of the printers do also take the larger SD300K or you can put the SD350K on an external spool rack, since all of the spools have the same central bore.

Originally this set of spools were designed for the needs of wire welding applications. Thus combining relatively low cost with strength and precision. But at the moment I am actively looking into better understanding the needs of the 3D FDM printing market and how to fine tune or adapt some spools to that.

mo-i

You mean like you’d find on one of these?

Just saw one of the griddles i worked on show up in a recent episode of Modern Family.

nice!

I was touring Bell’s Brewery a few weeks ago (my first tour in their new expanded facility) and after sitting in a room full of chairs my friend Nicolai designed, we headed next door and walked up a set of stairs and stumble across a table that I designed the base of.

I find youtube unboxing videos of products we have designed strangely satisfying :slight_smile:

Michael, do you get any push back on the inclusion of the machine screws on the face to hold in the baffles, like on that Polk center channel unit? Or is it an established design element by now, that doesn’t get scrutinized?

Actually we have never done it like this before. Typically we hide this kind of thing, or minimize it with smaller trim rings and tonal hardware. Looking at who the demo is for this range and what else he values in his life we thought it was an opportunity to celebrate the construction. They also act as magnetic anchors to the grille. Typically the grilled have these “catch cups”, basically press fit receptacles and pins. I firkin hate those visually. Just a mess and I felt we could do it better. I think this really sets our mid tier product off nicely at a glance. The entry level line, T Series, has the traditional catch cups. Our best line, LSiM, has all hidden magnetics, almost no detail on the baffle. This is the nice midpoint of doing something that feels high end but celebrating how we achieved it.

One of my buddies drove up in a vintage Porsche 911 that had a set of Polk speakers I designed installed in the doors. When I posted an image on Facebook, David over at Zelectric Motors​ sent me an image of the same model speaker installed in his restored and electrified VW Bug! These are exactly the kinds of cars I designed this series for. Vintage cars and trucks that had little in the way of factory systems at the time. Almost everything else in this category is overly aggressive or blinged out. We wanted to do something for the vintage car enthusiast building a resto-mod. That user wants something a little more subtle but still with some great detailing. It is so important to understand your user an not just chase your competition blindly. Image below showing both installs with my original rough sketch on the left.

The Inventcor sports bottles I work on as a product designer have shown up in Netflix series such as Breaking Bad and I believe also in Santa Clarita Diet.

Nice Yo!

Love the vintage feel. Are these 6.5"? (I couldn’t see them on the Polk site)

I don’t think it is available anymore. I did that line 5 years ago. We replaced it with DB+ and MM1. But it was available in pretty much every size imaginable, including ovals and subs.

Most people install them under the factory grilles of course, with newer cars anyway. The only cars that typically keep the grilles we designed are older ones.
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got my daily email from pinterest showing boards I might like… with one of my own sketches highlighted… yes I will like that pin as a matter of fact :laughing: