Chris Glaister // Folio

Consultant to Swifty Scooters Ltd, assisting with the adaptation of the design for mass manufacutre. Please visit www.swiftscooters.com for more information.

Above: Swifty One kick scooter designed by Jason and Camilla at Jamily Design Studio

Role: Senior Designer, Blend Studios

During the development process of grab-it a rapid and cheap tooling technology was developed in the UK using CNC machining of perspex to enable many iterations of the design to be made within budget before travelling to the Far East. We stayed in China for 2 months to oversee tooling development and pre-production runs prior to setting up a full scale production line. 

We found that time spent in the UK saved huge amounts of time once in China enabling the product to go from the first hand made prototypes to full scale production within 4 months. 

Above: protoypes made by manually injecting machined acrylic moulds.

Above: production tooling in China.

Above: mixing silicon batch prior to moulding

Role: Senior Designer, CliQ

Production tooling development for the Je Joue SaSi product was closely supervised in China to meet deadlines and maintain a high level of quality. These tools were developed from advanced prototypes built in the UK using rapid prototyping and machining techniques.

Shot from the production line conveyor belt at the Excellent Lavatory Equipment Forever Victory Computer Metal Company (Ltd) in Dongguan, China, this short film shows some of the characters that work there.