April 29, 2015
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Ernie Ball
Pillar is excited to announce our partnership with Ernie Ball to develop new and innovative products for the music industry.
February 5, 2015
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K2 Outsole
Pillar attended the Outdoor Retailer show this year and not only did we get a chance to see some great new products coming to market, but we got to see our design work come to fruition through these K2 outsoles. K2 sought out Pillar’s help to explore patterns and textures for this ski boot outsole, and we’re happy to see how amazing the final product looks!
January 27, 2015
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Innovative Sugarworks
Innovative Sugarworks is leading innovation in the culinary arts category with their professional-grade, ergonomic, and responsibly made culinary tools. Pillar has helped them develop a number of products including their “Sugar Shapers” used for creating sugar masterpieces and “Turntable Expander” for a larger working surface on most turntables. After launching their products in November of 2014, they have continued to show great progress and success with their tools in the culinary world. Visit WWW.SUGARWORKS.COM for more details on their products!
October 21, 2014
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Vintage Snowboard Plate
The Vintage Snowboard Plate is here! The V-Plate allows you to mount new bindings to most old boards–so don’t get rid of your vintage boards, get a V-Plate. It’s not too late to order, just go to V-Plate’s Facebook page for more info. Visit HECKLER MAGAZINE to read the latest article about the V-Plate!
September 23, 2014
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V Plate
Snowboarding has finally aged to the point where vintage snowboards are popular collectibles. With great innovation from Dave Billinghurst, former marketing and team manager for K2 snowboarding in the 90’s, and Pillar’s Bob Carrasca, former K2 binding engineer and product manager, collectibles are no longer for collecting dust. Together they have created the Vintage Snowboard Plate (V Plate), a machined plastic part with carefully and dynamically placed holes in patterns that will match up perfectly with most vintage snowboards, allowing you to mount nearly any current binding to a vintage board. Visit TRANSWORLD SNOWBOARDING for an article about the V Plate!
August 5, 2014
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Gizmodo reviews The Clean Cup
See what Gizmodo has to say about our client’s beer pong ball washer: The Clean Cup! And don’t forget to help support The Clean Cup on Kickstarter! Click the image below to go to Gizmodo
July 11, 2014
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The Clean Cup
“Everyone loves beer pong, but No One Likes A Set Of Dirty Balls.” Pillar helped develop The Clean Cup–the world’s first portable and automatic beer pong ball washer. Help support our client on Kickstarter! Check out their Kickstarter!
July 1, 2014
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BevTender
Pillar worked with Karl Moore to develop the BevTender–the first ever dual use airplane cup holder that can be used on either the seat pocket or tray table. This product is ideal for traveling on planes and secures various beverage containers to free up your hands. Help us support Karl and his product by funding him on Kickstarter! Click the image below to go to Kickstarter!
March 31, 2014
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Ski system for knee amputee
Pillar Design is honored to be collaborating with such an inspirational person, Brian Bartlett. As an above the knee amputee, Brian has shown incredible tenacity in life and has brought remarkable innovations to the world of prosthetics. His ideas have truly made a social impact, and allow amputees to maintain an active lifestyle. Click the following link to check out a video of Brian using his BTK system: Leftside Industries Connect with us on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter @PillarSeattle to get updates on the projects we are developing with Brian!
March 13, 2014
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Intelligent LIDS
Pillar Design has teamed up with Intelligent LIDS to bring you a solution for your food storage needs. “Intelligent LIDS provide practical, stylish, environmentally thoughtful food storage for use at home or on the go.” These lids are not only food-safe and made with recyclable materials, but they fit onto your existing mason jars. Coming in two styles, Storage Lids and Drink Lids, Intelligent LIDS create an airtight, non-leaking storage for liquids or dry goods. Find this product now at a number of retailers including Whole Foods. Click here to go to their
February 1, 2014
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K2 Freeride Ski Pole
The Pillar Design team has been working diligently with K2 Ski for sometime now and they just released the freeride ski grip that we assisted in developing with them. This complex 3D model has some mind blowing surface modeling. It is a 3 piece over-molded grip with some very intense texture treatments and complex ergonomic surfaces. We built a few different versions of this model using SolidWorks 2013. The asymmetrical shaping on this product was a definite challenge, but the product turned out very good and close to our initial concepts.
February 1, 2014
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SIA 2014/ 15 Tour with the Pillar Design team
July 3, 2013
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Rhino Rig Gear
The Pillar Design team in Seattle WA. team up with Rhino Gear to develop the world class new Rhino Rig. This system is absolutely amazing, we had a chance to rapid prototype and CNC machined a sample to check the ergonomics, balance, functionality and weight. This project was about 4 months in development, but as you can see we have something to all be very proud of. This versatile rig system will allow professional photographers to fully dial in their rig for their specific shot or film with smooth balance and high accuracy. This complex 3D assembly is a combination of tool-less adjustment and ergonomic
June 19, 2013
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Cube X Duo
Pillar Product Design is proud to announce that we are now bringing on FDM prototyping services in-house for both clients and on going projects. The Cube X Duo is (2) head FDM machine that has very large 10.8″ by 10.45″ by 9.5″ build envelope. This machine also has the capability to run (2) materials and (2) colors. ABS plus and PLA in a variety of colors. This tool will assist us in speeding up the development process and helping our client’s bring products to market quicker. Also we will use this tool to shorten the transition from industrial design / concept development to 3D Solid
June 19, 2013
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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
December 26, 2012
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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.