Plug-in Product design support
When your product team is flat out, good ideas get stuck. The skills are there, but the spare hours are not. One of the most common reasons companies come to us has nothing to do with a shortage of talent. It’s that the talent they have is already flat out. You...
We Hit Our Kickstarter Goal in 40 Minutes!
Launching your first physical product is like climbing your first serious mountain. Ambition is vital. But so is respect for the mountain. The founders who make it understand that turning your ambition into a real, manufacturable, shippable product is far harder than...
Permission to Dream
At this year’s Blue Earth Summit, one talk stood out amongst the sessions on net-zero targets and carbon offsetting. When Sir Tim Smit took the stage, the co-founder of the Eden Project and the mind behind the restoration of the Lost Gardens of Heligan shared...
How Autonomous Vessels Are Changing Marine Operations
A sleek new Coastguard vessel cuts through choppy waters off the Kuwaiti coast, scanning for illegal fishing activity, tracking any unknown vessels above or below the surface and providing high resolution video feed far over the horizon from shore. No crew, no human...
The Tide Is Turning On Electric Boats
A new survey of 750 US boat owners reveals something fascinating: 54% would actively consider going electric for their next purchase. But dig deeper into the data, and the story gets more interesting. The research, conducted by Unmuted Consumer Insights and analysed...
What Marine Can Learn From Patagonia
The North Sea just recorded its warmest summer on record. Again. Extreme weather, tighter regulations, and shifting customer expectations are reshaping the market. But here’s the good news for marine: you’re already wired for this future. Where many...
Inside View
Sam Mytton solves 100 mini puzzles every day. At least, that’s how he describes the technical challenges of product design. Three years into his journey at Realise Design, he’s taken on the dual role of Product Designer and Sustainability Lead, proving...
Marine vs Industrial Print
Back in April, we hit FESPA in Berlin, the global trade fair for the print industry, where we got to catch up with the latest tech and thinking, including from our partners Fujifilm. Immersing ourselves again in the Print world got us thinking – what can the...
