Focus: [MAKE] Product Development and the Brooklyn Designs Expo
Brooklyn, NY April 27, 2004 -- [Make] Product Development, a Red Hook based firm of 4 industrial designers, Kevin Williams, McKay Duncan, Scot Spratford, and Scott Lundberg, is eagerly anticipating their debut at Brooklyn Designs, the annual design expo taking place at DUMBO's top cultural spots, St Ann's Warehouse and the Brooklyn Designs Gallery. The expo features some of Brooklyn's most exciting designers and manufacturers of home furnishings and is expected to draw over 4000 trade, consumer and media attendees. The expo has created a significant buzz since its 2003 premiere, adding cache to the already hot Brooklyn art and design scene.[Make] sees the expo as an important opportunity to highlight their unique place in the Brooklyn design community by presenting a diverse group of designs, everything from fine contemporary furniture to mass produced consumer products. [Make]'s strength is derived from the varied backgrounds of its designers. The team, all trained industrial designers, has significant experience in consumer product design and engineering, home furnishing design, fine furniture production, exhibit design, as well as architecture, interior design, and fine art. "Because of the strength of our collective experience we are able to work across many specialized fields to produce outstanding and innovative design in both custom furniture and exhibit design as well as mainstream consumer products," says [Make] designer Scott Lundberg.
[Make], a multidisciplinary design and development firm in Brooklyn, provides a full range of services to manufacturers, museums, retailers, institutions, and private individuals. From soup to nuts, [Make] is positioned to create beautifully designed and useful items, to partner with the best manufacturers in providing production solutions, to design and implement packaging and display, and to efficiently manage the delivery process to distributors, says [Make] founder Kevin C. Williams.
"Our products and designs are top of the line, we're eager to show the market how Brooklyn designers and design firms are poised to be the leaders in product design and development. [Make] is at the forefront of this trend, we're prepared for any project: we're totally scalable, totally experienced." -[Make] designer Scot Spratford.
[Make]'s designers, all graduates of Pratt Institute's Master of Industrial Design program, are dedicated to building their business in Brooklyn. Located on Van Brunt Street in happening Red Hook, they've made great successes, gaining new clients, brokering manufacturing agreements, and developing Make designed items for sale at retailers such as the Home Depot, Sam's Club, Bed, Bath and Beyond, Kmart, and Target, as well as furniture installations for Brooklyn clients, like the Open House Nursery School in Cobble Hill. [Make]'s design studio boasts 5000 sq feet of state-of-the-art computer engineering equipment, a top-of-the-line wood and metal shop, conference and exhibition spaces, as well as great views of the NYC harbor.
"At this moment, exciting things are happening at [Make], we are inventing and developing new products, researching cutting edge manufacturing processes and materials, designing elegant forms, engineering prototypes, and bringing tomorrow's product to market today. It is a great business to be in, and the best borough to do business in." -[Make] designer McKay Duncan
Find [Make] at the Brooklyn Designs Gallery on the corner of Main and Water Street, Booth #G9, April 30 May 2. Call them at 718.797.9180, or visit them on the web at http://www.makeinc.net.
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