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01/06/2009

Innovation is Beauty

Thoughts about innovation & strategy in design

We strongly believe that good products are born out of a spirit of innovation.
We begin with the initial notion about the nature of a product, through creative ideas, constant searching for knowledge of materials and techniques, skillful shaping, uncompromising technical elaboration and attentive refinement of production methods. It is the constant drive to discover new insights, perspectives and solutions that bring together individual values that enrich the product's personality.
This drive, the spirit of innovation, distinguishes well designed products from randomly designed products, strengthens the coherence of brand and product values, transfers corporate values to the physical level and substantiates the future.
In short, it's the key to match a company's material reality with its future strategy.

Design Strategies

Incremental - The product-centered approach

Clear focus - rapid impact
A regular incremental product update is an ideal requirement for a design initiative.
When committed to development and implementation of an incremental design strategy, we take the existing product/product-line and examine all the relevant aspects that define its nature. We capture all the innovation paths in order to define their constraints and possibilities.
During a further step we predict any possible future modifications or redevelopment of the product by emphasizing the various key focal aspects.
The following phase covers all the important details, aesthetic elaboration, technological updates, etc.
If required, we provide further support during the implementation schedule and attend the production process.
The result is a brand new product line that stands out through innovative design methodologies.

Lateral - The Brand Centered Approach

Contextual refresh
Processing a lateral design strategy starts from an in-depth analysis of the company’s brand(s), culture, markets and targets that are affected by its activities. These metrics lay the groundwork for a further elaboration of the declared aim: to sharpen the brand through innovative products.
Equipped with this strategic approach, we develop product- and product-family visions with corresponding feasibility studies and realization scenarios.
The next step covers the accurate implementation of the development roadmap: The realization of new product-lines & appropriate brand communication refinements. With our wide range of competencies we are able to back-up internal capacities where needed and ensure targeted implementation in due time.

Radical - The Innovation-Centered Approach

(Re)loading business
New businesses or new-build businesses have the opportunity to profit the most from employing a radical strategy. We offer partnership and support in a radical design approach. The absence of legacies provides the huge potential to create consistent business values in a customized way.
Our deliverables are strongly focused on uncompromised creative concepts and ideas (constrained only by our generally elaborated market studies).
They combine with indisputable feasibility studies, realization roadmaps and brand identifiers.

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