Packaging Redesign

File this under “Overreaching And Figuring Out a Way to Recover Gracefully”. Our initial concept for packaging inserts involved having forms cut...

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Original Trivet Design

Here’s a design idea that was considered and discarded when we were coming up with concepts for the group of objects that would become the Brass ...

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Repurposing Designs

Here’s a short look at how we’ve taken parts from prototypes and repurposed them or taken a basic design and tried to see what else we can do wit...

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Shadow Box Part 2

We experimented quite a bit with the Shadow Box idea and finally finished up the experiment this past week. Even though we didn’t have a clear id...

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Evolution of the Coaster

We always find it interesting when you stumble across a forgotten object that was part of a development process. It’s usually a dusty, discarded ...

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Shadow Boxes

Doing production work day in and day out can get monotonous. The focus tends to be quite narrow in that you are monitoring multiple steps in a pr...

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Area Lamp - Part 5

After the base was finished curing, the sections of the mold form were dis-assembled and removed. Everything looks  fine. The metal spine that wa...

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Area Lamp - Part 4

With the mold finally constructed and the some experiments with the concrete completed, if feels like we have enough to finally start making the ...

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Area Lamp - Part 3

Since we wanted the front and back to be a slot shape, the best approach would be to purchase a round tube and then cut it along its length, giv...

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Area Lamp - Part 2

Before deciding to get too much deeper into designing the concrete base for our lamp, we need to get a feel for the material we’re going to be wo...

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Area Lamp - Part 1

Kitty and I had talked for a long time about buying an Arco Lamp for our living room. It's a unique, timeless design by Achille Castiglioni that ...

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Introducing the Brass Family

We thought you might like to see some of what goes into making the various pieces that make up the Brass Family. The term “hand made” is thrown a...

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Welcome to Daughter Manufacturing

Welcome to the new website and online store for Daughter Manufacturing. We started exploring the idea of starting our own company quite a few yea...

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