Designing
Better
Designing new & next
When you work with us, you don’t just get experience across many industries and countless projects.
You get a bunch of driven creatives who have the right tools and know-how to design, test, manufacture and launch your product with a bang. Let’s set you up for the win.
Our standards
We are ISO 9001 certified for Design and Manufacturing
When we do something, we do it with purpose & to ensure our clients always have a better-than-imagined experience.
What this means for our clients:
- Consistent, reliable & fit for purpose solutions
- Quality protocols that ensure products are well tested & of high quality
- Adaptable to clients’ needs, wants & market conditions
- Better than imagined customer satisfaction
- Traceability from go to whoa!
Projects
Countless projects
Our product development record includes the successful completion of projects across aeronautics, sporting goods, exhibition, industrial equipment, medical devices, consumer electronics, homewares, advertisng, point of purchase, transport, mining and more.
Workshop packed to the rafters
Our DA factory is full to the brim with a wide variety of advanced prototyping & manufacturing equipment, enabling us to create, test & refine your idea quickly in house. CNC routers, welders, lathes, 3D printers... All the right tools to help turn your concept into a viable product, with an expert team to use them.
Trade experience & manufacturing know-how
More than just Industrial Designers, our team are masters of many disciplines, mechanical and mechatronic included. We live to get our hands dirty and demonstrate on the daily that manufacturing know-how makes for better designers.
Award-winning design
We enjoy submitting our work for judging, as it helps us maintain the exceptional quality of work that we are well known for. We've been winners, nominees, finalists and received honourable mentions in various awards programs since 2012.
Fixed cost & fixed deliverables
All our projects are fixed cost and fixed deliverables, so you know exactly what you'll get and how much you'll spend. This means you carry less risk and can confidently start and know where you're at. We keep our process clear, simple and fluff-free.
Navigate complexities
It takes more than a great idea to get a product to market. We can help you to capitalise on unforeseen opportunities, answer all your questions and turn your idea into something tangible. Our extensive network also gives you premium access to a range of experts and partners.Our clients. More like our heroes.
“The team at DA really go the extra mile to understand where you're coming from. Being a defence company, we have a certain set of needs and requirements that our customers expect of us. And it's great to be able to work closely with DA and marry in their process with the expectations of our customers.”
Martin Carr - Applied Virtual Simulation
“The outcomes were beyond what I could have imagined, the DA team did a great job within a short period of time in helping us with concept Validation to help our own R&D team make some decisions before continued the journey with DA onto Prototyping.”
Owen Dawes - Permobil
“A really good service across the board. From initial concept, design concept, prototyping, manufacturing and commercialisation. They proactively supported us through the whole process”
Brad Collins - Orica
"You're the only company we know that can be the principal across all disciplines of strategy, project management, design, manufacture & implementation. Because we know you have our best interest at heart.“
Nathaniel Bavinton - City of Newcastle
"DA helped facilitate the design of this product so that it not only worked better but was made for mass manufacture. The sales of my FG Wizz are going exceptionally well and I'm delighted with the outcome".
Ray Fewell - FG Wizz
"DA solved a lot of the difficult problems we had, by helping us leverage our electronic technologies to confidently work in industrial environments, the way we intended them to."
Liam Manning - SAPHI Engineering
"DA was great at taking our idea & quickly creating the visuals & collateral that allowed us to successfully communicate our vision to other stakeholders we needed to bring along the journey."
Adam Van Dyck - Levit
"Josh helped us hone in on the next steps required to progress our prototypes from the design for manufacture stage to production.”
Lawrence Ranson - DeeWeed
"I like the quality of DA's design, their people; their high-quality rapid prototyping; and rapid manufacturing. They understand that their designs need to make money. They know how to build a realistic business case, ie. the right balance between practical design and commercialisation."
Bill Clifton - Banlaw
Team
Our design renegades
To successfully design and manufacture your product, you need an expert partner that believes in your vision and can transform your idea into a product that is better than imagined.
