Convene is a design studio focused on bringing your product ideas to life.
It was formed to address one of the biggest concerns discovered through my career as an industrial designer; connecting clients to maker facilities and translating the needs back and forth. It is, therefore, very fluid in how it approaches industrial design and product development.
The first steps in Convene’s process are identifying not only the design, development and engineering challenges but also the approach for building the appropriate resource banks best suited to bringing the idea into the world.
With backgrounds in industrial design (MID, Pratt Institute, 1996) and mechanical engineering (BSME Ohio Northern University, 1993), Joel merges both elements into the design process and offer insights from his personal experience in the field.