Design Anthology

Design Anthology has been delivering great product development and innovation from the Business Growth Centre in Gateshead since 2006. This environment allowed Josh Jeffress, Design Anthology's principal, to establish and grow new networks while receiving mentoring from leading Hunter business owners. With a number of awards under his belt; winner... of the Lake Macquarie business excellence awards in entrepreneurship and innovation as well as the young business person of the year, Josh recently graduated from the Business Growth Centre and relocated Design Anthology to shared facilities with another exciting Hunter-based business, Tecevo. Tecevo specialises in mechatronics, software, engineering and electronics, a perfect fit with Design Anthology's expertise in product development and manufacturing. This exciting combination will dramatically speed up Design Anthology's development process through direct collaboration. "The great thing about being in the new office is that I can walk out into the workshop and talk to the engineers and brainstorm solutions to our client's needs. There's no downtime and no delay" says Josh. Another advantage of the new office is that the Design Anthology team has access to a larger workshop space for prototyping, model-making and small production runs. Josh says "we can meet with a client on Monday morning, conduct our research and then develop a range of concepts over a few days. By Friday, we can be creating computer 3D models and by Friday afternoon we can be out in the workshop building prototypes to test. It's a rapid, iterative process that has become much easier to execute since the move. Once Design Anthology moves through detailed development and the design is agreed with the client, Design Anthology's increased production capacity means that products can be manufactured in-house. As Josh points out, "that's the key difference that Design Anthology offers; the ability to make the thing that we design." Jeffress and the Design Anthology team can now be found at 5 Nevin ...Read More