Product Development Firm Awarded
January, 2010
Ottawa, Ontario, January, 2010 -- Intel Video Contest Winner Design 1st uses the latest tools and a little innovation to demonstrate the basics of a day in the life of product design. Intel sponsored a Canada-wide design competition asking companies to share what they do and how they differentiate themselves from their competition. Selected as the Grand Prize Winner from 120 entries, Design 1st receives a $10,000 prize which they will donate to the Ottawa Technology Venture Challenge (TVC). TVC is celebrating their 10 year anniversary as Eastern Ontario's most prestigious competition for encouraging and mentoring post-secondary students to act on their technology business ideas and become the next-generation of entrepreneurs.
The team at Design 1st used a stop motion video style to reveal how a product makes it from napkin sketch through the multifaceted process of product development. With a little imagination, the video makes it look relatively simple and instantaneous to generate a fully functioning product, while in reality it is anything but.
Check out the award winning design video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzcrNrcF-qE
After winning, Intel interviewed the Founder and President of Design 1st, Kevin Bailey, to learn more about the function and process of a design engineering firm.
“When artists and engineers work together you get inspired products, inspired solutions” said Mr. Bailey, referring to the collaborative effort the team at Design 1st employs to complete each and every project. “In reality, every part to a product is built one feature at a time,” he explains.
Check out the interview with Mr. Bailey, Design 1st at http://site.canadianbusiness.com/intel/contest.aspx
About Design 1st
Design 1st is a product development company with a team of highly talented Industrial Design and Mechanical Engineers who help inventors, start-ups and growing corporations bring new innovative products to market. Specialists in physical product design and mechanical engineering development, Design 1st takes clients from a napkin sketch concept to a production-ready product. Working closely with strategic marketing and development teams Design 1st manages the detailed design, prototyping, verification testing and documentation. Design 1st is based in Ottawa, Canada with satellite offices in Montreal and Vancouver. For more information, visit www.design1st.com.
Contact: Ian Kayser, Toll Free: 1.877.235.1004 ext.228, ikayser@design1st.com