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As my first post on The Product Farm’s new website, I wanted to take the opportunity to promote our Facebook page. It’s been up for a fairly long time now. Before I created the page I was pondering if...
View ArticleMaking the USB Scent Flower™ – Part 1
I’ve been designing, developing and producing products for what I would consider a long time. It wasn’t what I went to school for, nor was it what I wanted to be as a child (I wanted to illustrate and...
View ArticleMaking the USB Scent Flower™ – Part 2
Although 3D/CAD plays a very big part in almost all of our developing product design projects, the USB Scent Flower™ was one of those projects where it wasn’t as necessary from a design standpoint....
View ArticleMaking the USB Scent Flower™ – Part 3
We had finally received our first pre-production samples from our factory. They looked pretty cute and the initial reaction from people was that we were onto a very unique and fun product. The flower...
View ArticleBringing back forgotten engineering from the 50′s
The initial idea of our unique utility strength stand up stapler came when I visited a neighborhood yard sale. I found a “hand vice stapler”, commonly used in industrial settings, dry cleaners etc....
View ArticleFlameless Rechargable USB Lighter
Nathan Gabriele is one of our design collaborators here at The Product Farm – and also the designer behind our Stand Up Stapler. Besides creating beautiful products for KitchenAid at his day job,...
View ArticleCustom Gecko Coffee Mug
I’ve been fortunate enough to work on several recent custom product concepts for a famous US auto insurance company. When Kevin Silver came across an opportunity to present promotional ideas, we sat...
View ArticleRefrigeration Without Electricity
Adam Grosser talks about a project to build a refrigerator that works without electricity — to bring the vital tool to villages and clinics worldwide. Tweaking some old technology, he’s come up with a...
View ArticleDavid Merrill: Siftables, the toy blocks that think!
MIT grad student David Merrill demos Siftables — cookie-sized, computerized tiles you can stack and shuffle in your hands. These future-toys can do math, play music, and talk to their friends, too. Is...
View ArticleBroken: Discover Lattea Design Contest
Create a new and unique latte macchiato glass. That was the challenge for the Melitta Lattea contest. In response, the Broken/ Home Collection was imagined. The collection is defined by 8 uniquely...
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