Al Dean

Al Dean is formerly DEVELOP3D’s editor in chief and has been writing and talking about product development technology for the last 20 years. With a technical background in product design and engineering, he still gets excited about new ways to apply a fillet.

Profile: Justin Discoe, Sprig

Posted by - April 4, 2011
Interview with Justin Discoe, Sprig’s co-founderToy designers Justin Discoe, Chris Clemmer and David Bowen decided to set up their own eco-friendly toy company having visited the factories in China that…
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Profile: Aaron Fournier, thinksound

Posted by - April 4, 2011
Interview with thinksound founders Aaron Fournier and Mike Tunney thinksound was founded by Aaron Fournier and Mike Tunney, who met while working for Tivoli Audio. At Tivoli Audio, Aaron was…
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Eco Materials Adviser

Posted by - April 4, 2011
Autodesk has teamed up with materials science master, Granta Design, to create a materials selection system that is built directly into Inventor 2012. By Al Dean If there is one…
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The beauty of manufacturing

Posted by - April 12, 2011
Just found this on Vimeo and thought I’d share it. The video by Michael John Evans shows how Soulcraft build custom bicycle frames by hand. And its a thing of…
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