SAIC have a sophisticated design studio on prime Maryleborne actual property in the course of London. The open plan association with designers’ zones, assessment areas, sit back house and groovy chairs supplies a inventive atmosphere with which to draw design expertise to outline the longer term SAIC Group merchandise.  Once I began Drive and was proven spectacular services of OEMs like Volvo or engineering companies like Magna, it made me marvel how a design consultancy like Drive can compete with the main automotive producers and their studios. The reply after all is we don’t – design consultancies supply one thing completely different.

Main automobile firms perform most of their design work themselves, with devoted design departments able to dealing with each side of the design course of.  However few firms don’t use the companies of exterior design consultancies for some smaller initiatives or as a validation of their inner designs, while many smaller area of interest firms use such consultancies to complement their extra restricted in-house design services on bigger design initiatives.

Generally the rationale we get proven round an organization’s design services is as a result of Drive is working with them or about to.  They see that Drive has one thing to supply them and so they need us to work with their groups to stimulate creativity and maximise the design output.  Whether or not or not it’s for market insights, a contemporary design perspective or just further digital useful resource we’re capable of present focussed {and professional} experience.

As with the studio house, I query ‘how can we compete’ when recruiting inventive expertise, when automotive OEMs can supply a lot when it comes to employment, services and certainty of initiatives nicely into the longer term.

Once more we don’t compete, what we have now to supply is completely different.

We’re an environment friendly studio that has a welcoming, inventive {and professional} ambiance.  We work with quite a few manufacturers so it’s unlikely that we’ll designing the same face of a automobile or similar product for lengthy.  The kind of work is diverse, and is extra prone to be idea ideation than manufacturing detailing.  The initiatives will cowl a big spectrum with mobility options, plane interiors  or perhaps one other supercar impressed Monitor-tor being as doubtless as the following manufacturing SUV.

A consultancy atmosphere like Drive’s isn’t for everybody, however the fixed change advantages our inventive crew conserving them contemporary, and gaining a breadth of experiences that differentiates them from different designers.  The very ability set that many design chiefs search for of their subsequent rent, certainly two former Drive workers will likely be ready loosen up on the new SAIC espresso bar.

It’s the various experiences that pulls our purchasers and advantages their initiatives as they get new views, contemporary concepts and perception from our broad information gained throughout completely different industries and purchasers.

So in case you are in search of some inventive enter on your subsequent challenge or if a consultancy atmosphere is someplace you want to work, come spherical for a chat.  We don’t have a espresso bar however we do have a incredible café across the nook.

(SAIC Design Superior London high picture – photographs supply SAIC)

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