Wearable Designers Reinventing the Common Backpack
Back to school is among us and the back to school shopping for all the typical school supplies is in full force. One of those important back to school items is the classic backpack to carry your lunch, pencil cases and everything in between from home to the classroom...
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Inventors are Rethinking Our Everyday Bathrooms
Innovation surrounds us every day and with the introduction of new and exciting products, we’re also seeing innovations to pre-existing products we’ve been using for as long as we can remember. This can be exciting in the world of invention production as it’s an...
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Bennetti Watches Nominated for a London International Award in the Best in Product Design Category
The London International Awards (LIA) have been a worldwide award that celebrates creative excellence in all forms of media. These awards have evolved over the years to truly reflect the ever-evolving and changing media industry and it has grown from honoring...
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Tool-Up: Top Makerspaces in Toronto
Making things is fundamental to being human. When you stop to think about it, we’re not the strongest species on the plant, we’re certainly not the fastest nor do we have the best endurance … if fact our physical characteristics are impressively average. But, we are...
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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 last...
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Female Inventors and Their Inventions That Changed The World
Female inventors and designers have changed the world with some of their inventions, shook up the industry, and have been leaders in innovation throughout the years and today. We’re going to take a look at some of those female inventors that have changed the world...
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MAKO Nominated For Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies
Each year Fast Company (FastCo) selects a handful of companies that are ranked as the world’s Most Innovative Companies of that year. This award honours leading enterprises and rising newcomers the exemplify the best in business and innovation. MAKO was nominated...
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Design Thinking: An Interview with our Manager of Design Strategy
If you spend any time around the bright, red-walled, open concept spaces at Mako Design, you’ll see 3D drawings on large monitors zooming around the screens and flipping this way and that, as the designers discuss the virtues of a particular design. You’ll hear words...
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Client Spotlight: Bennetti Watches Pairs Luxury With Performance for Innovative Timepiece
Why does one adorn a luxury timepiece? To be taken seriously. To stand out amongst peers. To complement the personal style. A quality watch is a conversation piece; a confidence booster; a work of art. But to invent a unique timepiece with the quality you can see, and...
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Strategic Thinking: 5 Key Product Idea Questions
At Mako, we work on a LOT of projects, over 150 a year. We receive even more calls about potential product ideas. In fact, our project strategy team fields hundreds of inquiries a quarter. We asked our project strategy team, what do successful product ideas have in...
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