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Telephone Number: 07533 444 453 Email: henry@inventid.co.uk

We use a variety of sketching styles to communicate a wide range of messages to our design buyers and for them to communicate to their own stakeholders, in turn.

Sketching can be about getting a vast number of ideas down quickly for critical review later – see the ideation ‘thumbnail’ sketches above left. Sketching is also a powerful tool for exploring an idea in depth and then presenting a persuasive image that grabs attention and helps people ‘believe’.

Different stages of a single project will call for different styles, as shown here. Since every design buyer is unique, our flexibility means we’re sure to have a style to match each corporate identity.

Sketching Process

If a picture tells a thousand words, a thousand quick sketches, well…they explain a vast number of ideas! The key to effective ideation sketches is a balance of speed, clarity and breadth of thought.

The sketches displayed here explore smart concepts for new kitchen devices. Whether we’re innovating around consumer electronics, packaging, interactive apps, display stands – you name it – we promise a quick delivery of quality ideas that really push the brief!

Concept Sketching

To prepare for changing legislation that would affect company strategy in a dramatic way, inventid offered innovation support to UK brand Minky, leaders in housework products. Under the direction of ‘contract cleaning’ inventid delivered a range of product innovations and implementation strategies to help them establish their brand within this market.

The presentation sketches effortlessly combine 3D CAD renders, hand drawn sketches and digital elements in a dynamic style unique to inventid.

Minky Strategy Innovation

We wish we could show you what’s under the purple squares…but we’re currently helping Canadian company Bell Crafts bring this exciting innovation in utility blade design to market!

We design to make an impact, we don’t do “more of the same”. Your ideas – and the designs we create for you – are confidential before, during and after working with inventid.

Bell Crafts

Design > sculpt > chomp!

Rodin is our contribution to Electrolux’s search for kitchen innovations of the not too distant future. We’re making fruit and veg fun for kids - by bringing current developments in the rapid prototyping industry into the heart of the home!

Big Ben Carrot? Pokemon potato shapes? Why not?

The aesthetic prototype was designed in CAD, 3D printed in SLS and lovingly finished by hand. Believe it or not - not even the carrot is real!

Rodin 3D

Travelling with a baby – a stressful business! Working alongside engineers at Babisil UK, we set out to design a product that removed some of that stress.

By interviewing new and old parents, and speaking to occupational therapists, we highlighted the most troublesome of baby-travel tasks: the cleaning and sterilising of baby feeding equipment.

The resulting product is not only 60% smaller than other mobile sterilisation products currently on the market; it is also capable of both microwave and cold-water sterilisation. It even incorporates a handy bottlebrush into the design - for those forgetful moments!

Babisil

Photorealistic renders breath tangibility into a design before it is finalised for manufacture. First, we demonstrated materials, scale, part interaction and context on-screen. Lifelike renders of the Solar Pebble, top left, gauged customer interest, harnessed early marketing opportunities and secured potential funding before a single part was prototyped!

Exploded drawings (bottom left), sections and orthographic drawings derived from the Pebble’s CAD data helped us define part dimensions and tolerances before committing to tooling…so everything fitted just so!

Computer Aided Design

Delivering affordable, solar-powered lighting across sub-Saharan Africa and reducing the reliance on dangerous kerosene fuel: the Solar Pebble. High fidelity aesthetic and functional prototypes were manufactured to define the final design and generate a buzz around the product before we commenced manufacture.

High quality marketing visuals and photos, such as these, helped the Pebble win a place in the Thomson-Reuters AlertNet Top 20 Innovations for a Sustainable Future before it even hit the shelves!

Solar Pebble

We learnt from the very best! Our eco design expertise is an amalgamation of our own lifelong passion for design that does better, and a period of co-working with some of the most influential sustainable thinkers around.If you don’t believe us, we even wrote the book on it!

EcoSuss is an environmental design toolkit we co-authored and published in North America. It helps designers cut through the waffle and get to grips with real-life sustainable design thinking.

EcoSuss

We’re rather good at spotting opportunities for well-established brands to add to their already strong product lines. This design was one of a range we sketched, modeled in CAD and developed quickly to presentation level to give the incredibly popular brand something to think about!

Product Development

Our design for print service covers everything from business stationery to glossy brochures, signage to flyers, presentation displays to quite a bit more! With our product-design hats at arms reach, we’re the ideal choice for your packaging design needs too. We use great value, premium-quality, external print partners so whatever the job, our design for print-work promises your brand the glossy finish it deserves.

Print Design

Projects can come in all shapes and sizes.

From developing award-winning products to re-branding companies, designing magazine adverts to last minute wedding invites, we’re starting to feel like we’ve seen it all!

Challenge us, we love putting our creative mittens to new problems!

Challenge Us!

We’ve all seen them – websites that look very pretty but are as functional as an inflatable dartboard! At inventid we apply the same in-depth research and demand for functionality that characterises product design to the design of communication devices – like websites – too.

From the outset we take time to consider your brand, the image you wish to portray and the perfect strategy for creating beautiful, functional and highly memorable web designs.

Web Architecture

As one of the UK’s leading distributors of Bott Workshop Equipment, SAC have hundreds of products and thousands of possible combinations from which to choose.

On top of a complete visual overhaul of the previous SacBott site, the main challenge was to significantly improve the layout of the content and enormous product range to enable anyone to navigate to a chosen product in as few clicks as possible. We delivered a functional, intuitive site – and even injected some style into a fairly dry commercial sector!

Web Strategy & Redesign

Decoratum – Europe’s largest commercial gallery – wanted a brand overhaul and new approach to online business.

The resulting brand is lighter and fresher but still oozes timeless class – and the offbeat charm of celebrity owner Jeff Salmon! Pricing labels and documentation compliment design classics from the 1950’s to the present day.

Quick and usable, the new design took first-time customers through to product selection in three clicks, or one click for repeat users via the menu bar. From customer and interior designer insights, we developed a ‘favorites’ tool. Here customers build lists of items they love and share them with friends or clients via email or social media.

Decoratum Web Design

Buying an offshore company can be complicated! There are a number of pitfalls and a lot of websites out there with confusing advice and astronomical fees.

We worked hard with BC Business Centrum to clarify the process as much as possible. Our solution was to build structured formation ‘packs’ for each jurisdiction. Not only did we achieve great simplification of the process through smart design, the customer came away with the feeling of a physical product purchase that more than warranted the price!

Offshore Formations Web Design

Consultancy is our bread and butter, but creative as we are, we’re often solving the problems we notice day-to-day outside of commissioned work. We understand the strategic value of intellectual property and the need to protect our ideas to build real brand equity. We help our design buyers get to grips with intellectual property, so they too can reap the associated windfalls.

Intellectual Property Services

We wouldn’t trust our brand with just anybody – and neither should you!Inventid’s branding services are as considered as they are considerable. From a logo freshen up to a completely new identity, from the visual marketing materials you’ll need to get your brand’s message out, to the social media platforms you’ll want to use to keep it there. Our services are delivered with the promise of getting deep under the skin of your brand before we start.

That way we’re always, well, on brand!

Branding

Contact Bryn

Specialities: Communication & Digital

Telephone Number: +44 (0) 7990 621 167 Email: bryn@inventid.co.uk

Contact Henry

Specialities: Innovation & Product

Telephone Number: +44 (0) 7533 444 453Email: henry@inventid.co.uk