Industrial design montreal

Industrial Design Montreal

The cost of industrial design

The cost of industrial design

Well, the most correct but annoying answer is: it depends! There is no fixed price for hiring an industrial design firm. It mostly depends on the scope of the project. Venous Light Medical Design Sketch Rendering   What are we defining? Industrial design is a...
Sand casting at SurfaceID

Sand casting at SurfaceID

In our previous post, we discussed the exclusive benefits of 3D printing and CNC machining. Another very important manufacturing method is sand casting. As the name suggests, a mold made of sand is used to cast metal into robust metal pieces. The sand is mixed with...
Virtual Reality and Industrial Design

Virtual Reality and Industrial Design

Industrial design is about imagination, conception and ultimately, sharing a vision with the rest of the world. What if we could interact with it at the earliest stages? Ever since the release of the first HTC Vive in 2016, virtual reality is mainstream and...
CNC Machining & 3D Printing

CNC Machining & 3D Printing

As product designers, customers constantly come to us urging us to make 3d prints.  Everyone is crazy for them.  And understandably so, it’s like Star Trek magic—to be able to input some data in the replicator, press go, and voilà! Magic shapes will appear! We at...
SurfaceID visited Shenzhen, China

SurfaceID visited Shenzhen, China

Located in the very south of China, right next to Hong Kong, Shenzhen has become an important manufacturing hub for the world. Shenzhen’s population has grown at an incredible rate throughout the years, climbing from just 30.000 people in the 1970s to over 17...