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Product
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MAKO Design + Invent is a full-service consumer product development firm servicing small product businesses and early-stage invention startups. With a 25-person team across 4 offices (Austin, Miami, Toronto, and soon Shanghai), MAKO has
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For Small Businesses & Manufacturers
Click below to find out more about our full suite of in-house industrial, mechanical, and electrical design, engineering, and development services tailored to established physical product development companies.
For Inventors & Startups
Have an invention idea? We have developed hundreds of products for startups in addition to providing end-to-end solutions to get our inventor clients from Idea to Stores Shelves! We are here to help.
FEATURED MAKO POSTS
MAKO Opens Third Location in Miami, Florida’s Design District
Big News for Our Product Development Firm! The MAKO team has officially opened our third office location in North America in the up and coming tech scene of sunny Miami, Florida. We are so thrilled to share this news about our product development firm....
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How to Build A Successful Startup Business: Advice from MAKO’s Founder
Is your entrepreneurial spirit just itching to come out? Then maybe it’s time you stop working that mundane 9 to 5 and start a career in which you have more control over your hours and your pay. In this article, we will discuss the various methods that you can...
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MAKO Opens Third Location in Miami, Florida’s Design District
Big News! The MAKO team has officially opened our third office location in North America in the up and coming tech scene of sunny Miami, Florida. We are so thrilled to share this news about our product development firm. Situated in the innovative neighborhood of...
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Make48: MAKO’s Director of Design Judges National Competition on PBS
Make48 - Spearheading Innovation in 48 Hours Just outside Baltimore, cameras descended on the state-of-the-art 4,500 square-foot, Stanley Black & Decker Makerspace for the filming of the third season of PBS’s Make48. When the sawdust had settled and the...
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MAKO’s Top Level Designers to Appear on National TV Show Make 48
As inventors ourselves, we know what it’s like to tinker with every concept and tiny detail of an invention. Our industrial design company will help create products with both short and long timelines depending on the specifications. So, what happens when you add a...
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From Helicopter Crash to Inventor: Veteran Partners With MAKO on Invention
It’s every pilots’ worst nightmare. You’re 30,000 feet high, soaring high above the clouds, with the sun beaming off your face - when the engine starts to stutter. Suddenly, it stops propelling the enormous metal contraption and you’re forced into a life-threatening...
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MAKO Named Official Industrial Design Firm of Austin Design Week
This year’s Austin Design Week featured many diverse events for design aficionados to explore, including designing parenthood, playing with chalk, exploring the world of artificial intelligence design, designing your career, and so much more. With the Austin...
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MAKO Hosts Design Workshop For Trend Hunters’ Future Festival
Known as one of the best innovation conferences in the world, Trend Hunter’s Future Festival is like Disneyland for any product development company, let alone any thought leaders in innovation. But, instead of hosting vendors who typically exhibit their brand or...
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SOME OF OUR CLIENTS
It’s extremely exciting to be revolutionizing the incredible industry of industrial design and development. For each project we earn, we are given the responsibility of developing something amazing to disrupt and improve an entire product market segment for the client. Our goal, simply put, is to make our clients’ product businesses hugely successful.
Kevin MakoRecent News Articles about MAKO Design + Invent
⋅ Entrepreneur Magazine: MAKO earns Top 100 Entrepreneurial Firms!
⋅ Venture Beat: Robert Herjavec, Google, & MAKO
⋅ Ryerson University: MAKO boosts
⋅ The Globe and Mail: A road warrior’s top 10 tips to make travel bearable
⋅ Google Official Blog: How MAKO discovered lean growth
⋅ BII2: Kevin Mako appointed as Fellow at Brookfield Institute for Entrepreneurship
⋅ Globe and Mail: each office abroad means a new set of rules
⋅ SAGE: Kevin Mako keynotes at SAGE Nationals
⋅ Ryerson University: Kevin Mako keynotes Ryerson DFZ Launch
MEET THE MAKO TEAM!
Kevin Mako
President
Ryan Davidson
Senior Product Strategist
Tim Uys
Director of Design
Chris Richardson
Electrical Engineering Manager
Joe Brod
Senior Product Strategy
Rick Stockton
Senior Mechanical Engineer
Leona Lyons
Project Management Director
Bruce Lee
Senior Industrial Designer
Robert Colgan
Senior Industrial Designer
Luther Yap
Senior Mechanical Designer
Magnus Skold
Senior Industrial Designer
Demsey Kirkwood
Mechanical Engineer
Hossein Kazemi
Mechanical Designer
Joe Shim
Director of Finance
Jesse Waldin
Technical Research Analysist
Paul Davis
Industrial Designer
Amy Rogers
Project Manager
Cameron Navarre
Mechanical Designer
Justin Tyra
Mechanical Engineer
Chantel Destacamento
Office Coordinator
Ready for MAKO to make YOUR product the next success story?