February 11th, 2010
Design Thinking to the Rescue
Thoughts from the recent Sarasota International Design Summit.
By Kim Cartlidge
Hosting a design summit solely for designers and creative types is so last year. The forward-thinking Ringling College of Art and Design chose instead last week to spread the word about how design thinking might deliver businesses and the region from the grips of the recession. [...]
READ MOREFebruary 9th, 2010
ROBRADY Covers the 2010 Social Media Conference in Miami
Recently I traveled to Miami to represent ROBRADY at the 2010 Social Networking Conference. Overall it generated some great enthusiasm and I walked away with fresh ideas for our social media agenda. The dominating theme of the conference was how to build relationships through the various social media channels and use Web 2.0 tools to [...]
February 4th, 2010
Inventing, Inc.
Yeah, we get it, you have an idea – but is it a good one? In an era of people lining up for “cattle calls,” queues are stretched around the corner and full of inventors hoping to get a shot at pitching their ideas for an infomercial or hitting the “big time” on a major [...]
January 7th, 2010
ROBRADY design and DK City’s db0 Electric Folding Bike Thrills Taipei
At their December 26th launch party at Taipei 101 in Taipei, Taiwan, DK City unveiled the db0 3.0 electric folding bike to the attending public, including over 80 press representatives. Mr. Matthew “Mashow” Lien and his wife Daisy, spokescouple for the db0 3.0, joined DK City President Mr. Hans Huang to host the party. Mr. [...]
December 31st, 2009
2009: Augmented Reality’s Odyssey
While perusing the web for multimedia ideas in 2005, I came across a demonstration of something called Augmented Reality (AR)—not to be confused with the failure of the mid-90s known as Virtual Reality (VR). As I watched the demonstration I remember asking myself, “what am I seeing here? Is this for real?” The demo generated [...]
December 11th, 2009
Rob Brady Discusses The Business Of Design With CEOwise Part 2
Rob Brady sits down with Sean Burke from CEO Insights to discuss the business of design. This interview originally appeared as a podcast on CEOwise.com. In this interview with Sean, you will hear Rob discuss: what it is like being in the “eye candy” business; the increased importance of design in business; how design is [...]
December 4th, 2009
Rob Brady Discusses The Business Of Design With CEOwise
Rob Brady sits down with Sean Burke from CEO Insights to discuss the business of design. This interview originally appeared as a podcast on CEOwise.com. In this interview with Sean, you will hear Rob discuss: what it is like being in the “eye candy” business; the increased importance of design in business; how design is [...]
November 25th, 2009
ROBRADY Design Innovates With New Business Model
Recently, I spoke with Rob Brady, Owner / CEO / Design Director of ROBRADY Design, who has worked with alternative vehicle companies such as Vectrix, Segway and, most recently, DK City on their folding bike design. I was curious to find out what parameters might drive the designs of alternative vehicles as compared to the [...]
November 13th, 2009
Xhale Recognized in Popular Science’s “Best of What’s New” with ROBRADY
Xhale, Inc. has been recognized in Popular Science’s “Best of What’s New” in 2009 for thier HyGreen™ hand washing system. Xhale, Inc. tapped Florida based firm ROBRADY design as thier product development partner – including industrial and mechanical design as well as functional rapid prototype modelling. Xhale, Inc. and ROBRADY have a substantial history of [...]
November 6th, 2009
ROBRADY Unfolds the Gold at the 2009 Spark Awards
ROBRADY design has been awarded a Gold Spark award in the Mobility category of this year’s competition for their db0 Electric Folding Bike design. Partnering with Taiwanese manufacturer DK City, ROBRADY design developed a eco-conscious, user friendly e-bike that celebrate the concept of a “folding bike” – a uniquely original design solution that is instantly [...]
October 27th, 2009
Rob Brady, Ed Benjamin and David Cabanban Discuss Electric Bikes
E-bike consultant Ed Benjamin; David Cabanban of Sanyo; and Rob Brady of ROBRADY design discuss electric bikes with BikeBiz executive editor Carlton Reid. 29-minute show was filmed at Interbike Las Vegas in September 2009.
October 14th, 2009
Tutorial: Design a Concept Car
Nothing can excite the masses quite like a sexy and futuristic concept car. Everyone can relate to them, invoking pure passion in many. As fun as it is to look upon these rolling sculptures, it is even more exciting to create them.
This tutorial will focus on the “hero” rendering that is used to accurately explain [...]
