Hello,
I'm an experienced industrial designer with engineering background and specialization in product styling and development. In my career I have worked on numerous projects with engineering and design studios involved in product research and development. It varied from designing small home products and gadgets, advanced composite furniture design, to designing very specific projects like interior of low floor trams, public transportation rail vehicles to yacht interiors...
Today I collaborate with many factories and various manufacturers not only in EU but also in China and south Asia. So together with my team composed of proven experts in the engineering and manufacturing field, we can offer you complete design service; from concept stage, sketching and object styling, developing 3D visualizations and presentation materials, to building fully functional mockups and prototypes and supportive documentation. I think future 'trends' in design can be found as a fusion of various technical and artistic disciplines, and design management. I tend to cover all that area, so my clients can have entire support in one place.
Knowing that you are starting such complex project, I would like to make a research of my own as a first milestone of the project. This is usual procedure, and after that I could give you the answers to your questions. In other words thorough market research is the first thing to do, and then we need to conclude together which concept is the right one for this project.
Speaking about my prices and timetable for design phase, I can not just roughly estimate it without researching more details about specific project. My philosophy is that I prefer quality over speed. I'd rather be honest from the start than annoy everyone with delays or worse still, rushing the process and designing a product that I'm not proud of.
I found your case very interesting and inspiring, and I would definitely like to know more details about it. Looking forward to your feedback. Feel free to ask any additional info!
Thank you!
Milivoj Ujevic