Sparkfactor Design
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| Sparkfactor Design | |
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| Type | Private |
| Founded | (2001) |
| Headquarters | Palo Alto, California, USA |
| Key people | Abraham Farag, CEO Robert Garett, Co-Founder Claudia Truesdell, Co-Founder Anthony Del Balso, Director of Engineering Andy Hooper, Director of Design |
| Industry | Mechanical Engineering Industrial Design |
| Employees | 20 (2006) |
| Website | www.sf-pd.com/ |
Sparkfactor Design is a product development consultancy with offices in Palo Alto, California and San Francisco. They help design products and equipment for the consumer electronics, medical equipment and other industries.
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[edit] History and work
Sparkfactor Design was founded in 2001 by Claudia Truesdell and Robert Garrett both graduates of the Stanford Graduate School of Product Design[1] and Mike Smith an Industrial designer from GVO. The current CEO, Abraham Farag, also graduated from the Stanford Graduate School of Product Design. Previously, Abraham Farag was a Senior Product Design Engineer at Apple Inc.,[2] Product Design Engineer at IDEO, and a Product Engineer on the General Motors EV-1.[3][4]
The firm employees approximately 20 people in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Design. Inc Magazine included Sparkfactor in their 2007 list of top 100 consulting companies in the USA.[5] Sparkfactor was also included in the San Francisco Business Times list of top 100 private companies in the San Francisco Bay Area for 2007.[6]
Sparkfactor has partnered with many product oriented companies to help design more than 100 consumer electronic products. In total these products have had sales of over 150 million units.
[edit] Notable products
- Mechanical Engineering for the first Apple Wireless Mouse and other mice, the first Apple iPod and follow on iPods and other MP3 players, the first Apple Mac Mini and follow on Mac mini’s. These products have won many design awards including D&AD "Gold" for Product Design and "Silver" for Product For Work, Plastics Industry Consumer Product Design of the Year Award and Red Dot Product design of the year awards.
- Complete ME & ID design for the Dash Navigation Dash Express Product: which was named by CNET & LAPTOP "Best of CES 2007" for Car Tech & GPS.
- Complete ME & ID design for the Meraki Networks outdoor product. Product:
- Design and manufacturing of the Apple Design Awards.[7], and the Apple change tray[citation needed] used in all Apple Stores in Japan.
[edit] References
- ^ Stanford Product Design Alumni [1]
- ^ Apple mechanical design patent issued [2]
- ^ GM mechanical design patent issued [3]
- ^ GM mechanical design patent issued [4]
- ^ Inc magazine top 100 consulting companies [5]
- ^ top 100 [6]
- ^ Menkentos does cat scan of Apple Award Menkentosj Retrieved on 2007-05-30
