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MAKO Design + Invent is the founding firm in North America for providing world-class consumer product development services tailored to startups, small manufacturers, and home inventors. Simply put, we are the leading one-stop-shop for developing your physical product from idea to store shelves, all in a high-quality, cost-effective, and timely manner. We operate as one powerhouse 30-person product design team spread across 4 offices from coast-to-coast to serve you (Austin, Miami, San Francisco, & Toronto). We have full-stack in-house industrial design, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, patent referral, prototyping, and manufacturing services. To assist our startup and inventor clients, in addition to above, we help with business strategy, product strategy, marketing, and sales/distribution for all consumer product categories. Scroll down to learn more!
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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
Our Client Product, the ROVER Packhopper on Display at the Red Dot Museum Winners Exhibit!
About the Red Dot Museum Winners Exhibit! The Red Dot Awards celebrate their design awards in more ways than just an online exhibition! The team at Red Dot Design dedicated a whole museum in order to help exhibit and appreciate the outstanding and innovative designs...
Mako Design Featured on Creative Pool’s Editorial!
A big value that we stand for at our Austin product development studio. Mako Design is collaboration! Collaboration is a big part of what makes the Mako Design team work together flawlessly and stay in touch with the design community. It’s for this reason that we put...
Mako Design Wins the Coveted Red Dot Award for Concept Design with the ROVER Packhopper!
At our Texas product design studio, Mako Design, we are constantly striving to push forward and innovate the field of product design, and this means providing world-class, quality, and top-notch designs to our clients. Receiving numerous design awards for our work is...
Catch Our Director of Design, Tim Uys, on the Latest Season of Make48, now Live!
This past year, our Austin product development agency, Mako Design, was excited to hear about another season of the popular North American invention show, Make48, airing another season! As with the past couple of seasons of Make48, our director of design, Tim Uys,...
Congratulations to the Winners of the 2020 Mako Student Innovation Award!
Earlier this year, we were excited to begin our annual Mako Student Innovation Award hosted with Ryerson! Our Toronto industrial design consultant, as well at the rest of the Mako Design team, loved hearing all the different and new innovative ideas that the talented...
Mako Design Makes the Shortlist for Creative Pool’s 2020 Annual!
A goal that our Ontario product design agency, Mako Design, is continuously striving to accomplish is creating high-quality product designs! Not only do we receive validation for our work from the great words and reviews from our clients, but also through the...
Introducing Mako Design’s Newest Office in San Francisco, California!
One of our biggest goals at Mako Design is to bring our top-notch product design and development services to inventors and innovators around the world! From what was just a small design company based in Toronto, Canada, now has a total of 4 main offices located all...
Mako Client Spotlight: Intellipan!
At our Toronto industrial design agency Mako Design, we look forward to helping the most innovative small business owners and inventors build and bring their ideas to life! We hear a lot of great ideas, and love to see the genius and brilliant solutions that inventors...
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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.
Recent News Articles about MAKO Design + Invent
⋅ Entrepreneur Magazine: MAKO earns Top 100 Entrepreneurial Firms!
⋅ Venture Beat: Robert Herjavec, Google, & MAKO
⋅ Ryerson University: MAKO boosts
⋅ 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
Justin Bui
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
Sergio Martinez
Industrial Designer
Leighann Roden
Hiring Manager
Helen Dworaczek
Office Coordinator
Navdeep Singh
Electronics Designer
Ready for MAKO to make YOUR product the next success story?