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Black Rapid’s Lensbling on the scene

The Pillar Product Design team just finished designing a complete set of lens covers for both Nikon and Canon for Black Rapid latest release the Lensbling brand. This set of caps and covers handles all the major sizes and models of camera lens for both Nikon and Canon. 3D modeling in Solid Works 2013 and scaling these caps accordingly was a challenge since Black rapid wanted this to be (3) color tri injection molded shot. The Pillar Design team work with Black Rapid’s in-house tooling manufacturer team to make sure we ended up with the right quality of part that would meet the desired material cost of

June 19, 2013

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Finishing out 2012.

The Pillar Product Design team would like to thank everyone we worked with, on having such a successful year. It was alot of hard work and we did some amazing things. We helped a number of client’s to fofill their dreams on getting their innovative products to market. Going into next year we are excited to work on new and innovative product ideas that will shape the market place. Happy Holidays and a happy new year.

December 26, 2012

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Culti-Sifter Urban Garden Tool on Kickstarter

Pillar Product Design of Seattle WA recently assisted CultiSifter in the development of a new urban ergonomic garden tool that will soon be released to the market. The CultiSifter team husband and wife duo has put there product on Kickstarter to get support in further developing this product for manufacturing. The product was recently premiered by Solid Concepts web site as well as used as a 3D solidworks complex surfacing example of the types and complexity of builds. We used a GF PA Nylon 12 Objet SLS process to get working and functional samples for testing. This would not have been possible 3 years ago, this technology allows our client and

October 30, 2012

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Flow Bindings New Active Strap Technology wins Snowboarder Magazine’s Platinum Awards

The New Active Strap binding technology known as NX-2 GT NASTY recently won the Snowboarders Magazine platinum product awards. The Pillar Product Design team worked with with the Flow team for nearly 2 years developing and performing mechanical engineering services on this new binding technology. It is definetly one of the hotest performing bindings on the market to date. We were very excited and honered to be involved in the development of the binding program and to work with such innovative individuals. Congrats for all the hard work and energy from the FLOW product management team for making this product idea a reality and turning

September 14, 2012