http://meld.com Concept products for a world reflecting your personality Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:03:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Platform design is the idea that brings MELD together and give us a singular point of focus. Put simply; it’s a design method to achieve near mass production efficiency while providing inspiration and easy access to customizable products. There are three steps to creating a platform design. 1. Design a product ... http://meld.com/on-platform-designing/ The design of this chair has been in the works for a good 3+ years and now we’re getting down to the details. Each new step has added new details with new problems and luckily new renderings for new thrills. This is the first product to market formally using the ... http://meld.com/there-was-a-chair/ The platform design method on the whole is a good thing. Any idea that plays against a soylent green vision of utopian sameness help the struggle against cooky cutter Ikea products. But, it’s a method. Methods tend to be passed along like gospel and that’s ONLY a bad thing. We are ... http://meld.com/platform-design-bad/ Going to China to work the manufacturing side of create the chair. Going to China, especially these days comes with a price, the stigma that is connected with all that is cheap, low quality and unhealthy. These are big and difficult issue to try and overcome. I think if I had ... http://meld.com/this-is-a-chair/ It’s been almost 12 years since I registered meld.com as my domain and while I didn’t know the details at the time, my vision today is nearly the same as it was back then; The marriage of multiple disciplines to create an unexpected result. It’s not that the idea is ... http://meld.com/a-long-time-in-the-making/