Design Edge Sydney

About Us

complete product development

We focus on adding the design 'edge' - innovation & creativity, high quality design aesthetics, increased product profit, reduced tooling & manufacturing costs, rapid speed to market & maximum end-user satisfaction. Our work has received numerous awards, patents and design registrations for clients.

 

Understanding the problem

The essence of our industrial design service is being able to remove our client's product problems by developing successful cost-effective solutions. The best outcomes grow from understanding and partnering co-operation. Experience reinforces our belief that the answer to a problem lies in understanding the problem. The better we can define the goal posts, the more successful the solution will be.

Complete Service

Design Edge provides innovative concepts, reliable engineering. detailing, 3D solid CAD models, rapid prototypes and test rigs, research and testing, product graphics, final production specifications and initiation of manufacturing.

Capabilities

Design Edge staff are qualified Industrial Designers, with university degrees and extensive knowledge, training and hands-on experience developing products in a broad range of industries. Our industrial design work includes consumer, commercial, business, medical, scientific and industrial products.

Experience

Design Edge has over 30 years staff experience developing innovative products for world markets. We integrate market effective styling with clever engineering to maximise sales appeal, significantly reduce tooling, part and assembly costs. Design Edge has wide experience with plastics, in particular, injection, compression and GRP moulding.

We have considerable expertise in the design of all types of metal castings. Also, we have designed numerous plastic and aluminium extrusions with assembly and component mounting details as well as a number of rubber mouldings.

We concentrate on quality engineering and product detailing to reduce number of parts and fasteners required, facilitate assembly, minimise production rejects and provide optimum strength, durability and problem free operation in use. As well as industrial design we provide comprehensive graphic design services for products, logos, labels, brochures and technical literature. We also have experience in environmental design including exhibitions, signage, displays and street furniture.

Product Design Development

Design Edge is approved by Innovation Australia (Federal Government) as a Registered Research Agency (RRA). An RRA is an organisation with technical and scientific expertise that can perform contract R&D work on behalf of companies eligible to claim the R&D Tax Concession.

As an RRA we offer to clients:

  • Expenditure for Australian R&D contracted to an RRA within approved classes of activity is eligible for the full concession in the year of income irrespective of the company’s annual R&D expenditure, i.e. the normal annual threshold of $20,000 is waived.
  • Prepayments for contracted Australian R&D may be claimed by companies up to twelve months in advance of the work actually being carried out and can be included in the calculations for the 175% Premium concession, and
  • Small and medium sized firms are able to undertake R&D programs without having to invest in costly R&D equipment and expertise.

Design Edge registration number is 45726

For more information on R&D Tax Concession and R&D Tax Credit programs go to http://www.ausindustry.gov.au/InnovationandRandD