We speak bag.
Industrial Design, Development and Sourcing for softgoods and all things cut and sew.
We design functional products out of textiles.
Backpacks for hiking, Duffels and Rollers for traveling, or protective cases for your electronics. Our products offer more function than a typical fashion accessory, but are more intimate than molded or hard items (but we do that too).
If your product involves fabrics and carries, protects, floats, flies or otherwise has a job to do, that’s our specialty.
Let our industrial design methodology can unlock space for innovation and bring market leading finish to your product development pipeline…
WELL DEFINED OBJECTIVES
Maybe the most overlooked step in the Industrial Design process— Whether you have an internal team or want to design with us, let us help craft your early design process with thorough design briefs and methodologies to consistently build world-class product.
"If I had an hour to solve a problem, I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions" - Albert Einstein
CREATIVE HORSEPOWER
Know where you want to start? Great.
Our rigorous brainstorming methodology gets you thinking of new ideas, faster. The result is a broad exploration of solutions that lead to unique and ‘just-right’ functionality. This is the magic people like to call “design thinking.”
Effective idea generation can happen in the boardroom, a group offsite or in the studio. Black Thread Creative can help facilitate.
PROTOTYPES AND POC-
(Proof of Concept) On all levels, the sooner you can push, pull and hold a product concept, the sooner you can learn and iterate.
Multi-stage and iternative prototyping works through critical functionality first. Validate everything. Keep the process efficient. Fail Fast and Fail Early.
DEVELOPMENT and SOURCING
Even the best cut and sew designs, without proper development support, are destined to fail.
Black Thread Creative can provide or work directly with your in-house developers to bring the product to life.
This can include material development, sourcing, color selection and approval, costing support, even QA/QC support.
FRACTIONAL AND SCALABLE
Budgets must be managed. Product development is chaotic. Timelines are always tight. We get it.
Let’s talk about how Black Thread Creative can be available when you need us, without the onboarding hassle.
Fractional Retainers, pre-set work blocks, or project-based collaboration. Black Thread is your solution for quickly scaling up or scaling back your development pipeline.