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Bay Area Product Design Studios

Product design consultancies or studios in the Bay Area that I should contact about observing the prototyping process:

• Astro Design
  Designed Nike wrist watches, InFocus LCD projectors, Compaq iPaq, Kensington Gravis game controller, Virgin Boomtubes+handheld MP3 player, HP home projectors, Iomega Zip 750, Good Technology G100 pdawirelessemailerthing
  Contact: 461 Valencia St, San Francico, CA 94103
  (415) 487-6787
  infoATastrostudiosDOTcom
• Brad Bissell
  Freelancer?, worked on earlier Apple products, including Newton
  Address: 1539 Bordelais Drive, San Jose, CA 95118
  408-448-1747
• fuseproject - SF
  some technology work w/ Toshiba, Moviebeam, Microsoft. But not tech-centric.
  Address: 123 South Park, San Francisco, CA 94107
  415 908 1492
  infoATfuseprojectDOTcom
  
• Frog Design
  Disney ATM, Microsoft Media Player Skins, Ford Th!nk Kiosk, eCast internet jukebox
  Addresses: 1327 Chesapeake Terrace, Sunnyvale, CA 94089, Tel. +1-408-734-5800
  420 Bryant Street, San Francisco, CA 94107, Tel. +1-415-442-4804
  infoATfrogdesignDOTcom
• Hiemstra
  Product development focusing on hand held instruments and "custom enclosures".
  Address: 101 Townsend Street, Suite 301, San Francisco, CA 94107
  415-495-6441
  James Flom {VicePresident, Research & Development} jflomAThiemstraDOTcom
• inno Design
  Samsung Camcorders, LG PDA/Phone, Samsung cell phones and game pad, iRiver portable MP3 and video players
  Address: 577 College Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94306
  650-493-4666
  
• Jay Wilson Design
  Freelance? Phone 650 529 9181; 30 Ciervos Road, Portola Valley, CA 94028
• Lunar Design
  Motorola Talkabout phone, Palm m100 series PDA, Biosentient physiological monitoring, Optimize digital eyewear
  Addresses: 541 Eighth Street, San Francisco, CA 94103; 415-252-4388
  537 Hamilton, Palo Alto, CA 94301, 650-326-7788
• Moto
  Intel dot.station, Zeum Artist Studio, Experience Music Project museum guide, collaborations with Interval Research
  Address: 85 Second Street, Suite 710, San Francisco, CA 94105-3459
  Tel 415.281.4800
• Pentagram
  387 Tehama Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
  +415 896 0499
  infoATsf.pentagram.com
• Speck Product Design
  ACT Labs game controllers, MedPoint Medication Management System, Gyration Gyropoint
  Address: 227 Forest Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94301, P: 650.462.9080
  speckpaATspeckdesignDOTcom
• Zoe Design
  Rocket eBook, Motorola Accompli 2-way pager, Siemens Tradeboard, NEC Urban Warrior Address: 466 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA 94107, 415-896-1438
  infoATzoeDOTcom

Companies with their own in-house ID departments (presumably):

• Apple - Cupertino
• Digidesign - Daly City

Studio addresses were mostly collected from design-engine.com's link list Other interesting companies, not local:

• Design Continuum - Boston, Milan, Seoul. LARGE portfolio.

Additional links (thanks to Krispin Leydon):

• http://www.mindtribe.com/ (from an embedded systems direction)
• http://www.smartnyc.com/ (has SF office)
• http://www.unovo.com
• http://www.ziba.com (has San Diego Office)
• http://www.idbias.com/
• http://www.cooper.com/

Posted by Bjoern Hartmann at January 20, 2005 03:16 AM