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October 24, 2008
Metaform Product Development helped bring Borland's "Unlock the Black Box" ad campaign to life by devising and building a one-off, life-sized, functioning tradeshow contest prop that, when unlocked with a winning key by a contestant, lifts up to reveal a Nintendo Wii prize hidden inside. The Black Box features an ominous pulsating red LED framed in a machined and polished aluminum ring on a mysterious, monolithic slate black cube. A rotating base animated the cube and added to the theatrics of the contest. The prototype prop was unveiled at a tradeshow in Orlando, Florida and was apparently a big hit drawing crowds of attendees to the Borland booth.
October 22, 2008
The BACtrack Breathalyzer designed by Metaform Product Development appears on Discovery Channel's MythBuster's TV show.
August 26, 2008
The BACtrack Breathalyzer designed and invented by Metaform Product Development tops the list of Inc. Magazine's "7 New Technology Marvels." The client and licensee also became an Inc. 5000 fastest growing private U.S. company of 2008. The product is now in worldwide distribution counting Target, Amazon.com, Drugstore.com, Bevmo, and Walmart among its distributors.
June 2007 - January 2008
Metaform's Electronic Printer Abacus and Sun Ray 270 projects were selected by the San Francisco International Airport Museums to be in "Prototype to Product," an exhibition featuring thirty different design projects from firms and individuals throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. From preliminary sketches and drawings to detailed illustrations, and from basic models and prototypes to finished products, a range of design solutions are presented by a number of designers from an area known as a hotbed of creativity. The exhibition coincides with the IDSA/ICSID International Design Conference held in San Francisco in Oct. 2007.
December 2007
The BACTRACK Breathalyzer designed by Metaform Product Development makes a primetime TV appearance in an episode of CSI: Miami.
November 13, 2007
Metaform Product Development Founder, David Shaw, presents at the Oracle OpenWorld co-hosted Pecha Kucha Night San Francisco held at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Over 500+ attendees were treated to 12 short attention span, 20 images X 20 seconds presentations. Pecha Kucha Night is a place for creatives to meet, network, and show their work in public. Founded in Toyko, Japan, Pecha Kucha Night is now in over 80 cities worldwide.
November 8, 2006
The Sun Ray 270 Virtual Display Client designed by Metaform Product Development and Sun Microsystems User Centered Design Group is named as an Honoree in the Eco-Design Category of the 2007 International CES Consumer Electronics Show Innovations Design and Engineering Awards.
July 11, 2006
Sun Microsystems releases the Sun Ray 270 Virtual Display Client design in conjunction with Metaform Product Development. The Sun Ray 270 is a RoHS compliant thin client network computing device intended to further proliferate Sun's founding vision: "The Network is the Computer."
June 16, 2006
Metaform's David Shaw is featured in "Young Designers Americas" a book published by daab GmbH of Cologne, Germany and edited by Carissa Kowalski Dougherty. This 400 page hardcover volume introduces a select group of innovative up and coming Interior and Product Designers on the American continent. It presents 50 top young designers and their products, celebrating the diversity of North, South, and Central American design.
December 16, 2006
The BACTRACK Breathalyzer is launched. BACTRACK features an innovative patent-pending Dual-Flow Air Tube Chamber innovation invented by Metaform's David Shaw and licensed to KHN Solutions for manufacture.
December 15, 2006
The Sun Ray 270 Virtual Display Client designed by Metaform Product Development and Sun Microsystems User Centered Design Group was part of a series of products that earned a Good Design Award from the Chicago Athenaeum. The Good Design program was founded in Chicago in 1950 and remains one of the oldest and one most important competitions in the world.
November 14, 2006 - December 15, 2006
The Sun Ray 270 Virtual Display Client designed by Metaform Product Development and Sun Microsystems User Centered Design Group is exhibited at the Natalie and James Thompson Art gallery in San Jose State University's School of Art and Design. The exhibition called "Points of View: Experiences in the Industrial Design Profession" featured 6 prominent SJSU alumni.
October 19, 2005
Metaform founder David Shaw has
been selected to be included in an upcoming book
by
Fusion/teNeues Publishing
GmbH called "Young Designers: Americas."
The book will feature about 60 up-and-coming designers
from throughout North and South America, and will be
published in late Spring or early Summer 2006.
July 22, 2005
Metaform is honored to be
commissioned by
Sun Microsystems'
award-winning User Centered Design Group as a Contract
Service Vendor and ID Lead supporting programs that
ensure and champion the quality and design integrity of
Sun branded peripheral devices, displays, and network
computing products. Metaform will work as an outsourced
but integrated component of Sun's in-house product teams
and utilize its experience in Asia to manage projects
with leading manufacturing suppliers such as Samsung,
NEC, Fujitsu, and Quanta.
April 4, 2005
David Shaw presents lecture on
industrial design process to Design and Industry (DAI)
students as part of the
Industrial Designers Society of
America's
(IDSA) Professional Lecture Series hosted by San
Francisco State University.
December 7, 2004
Firetide earns Red Herring Top 100 Innovators Award.
December 2, 2004
Metaform + Asian manufacturing giant, Coxon Group's
Teckon Industrial Division co-develop a line of slim
optical and half-height drive ODD and HDD enclosures for
the OEM market. Visit
www.teckon-tw.com
for more information.
Metaform engages in hybrid equity partnership with Silicon Valley start-up DualCor Technologies to develop innovative cPc portable communicator and computing device design concept.
April 27, 2004
Metaform partners with StreamWorks to explore ODM fly fishing products with
outdoor sporting goods catalog and retail chain giant
Orvis of Manchester, Vermont, USA.
December 3, 2003
Metaform start-up client Firetide wins Fall Wi-Fi Planet Conference & Expo Best
of Show Award and a host of other industry accolades.
September 19, 2003
Firetide
HotPoint Mesh Router conceptual
industrial design designed by David Shaw of Metaform
Product Development wins the prestigious DEMOgod award at DEMOmobile 2003 in La
Jolla, California. The demonstration prototype
built by Metaform appears in a C|net / ZDNet interview.
Click to view video.
July 12, 2003
CyberVibe Varatus
designed by Metaform Product Development makes its debut at the Adult Novelty
Manufacturers Expo (ANME).
June 4, 2002
Metaform founder David Shaw presents "Industrial Design:
Process, Role, Involvement" lecture to industrial design
students at Chang Gung University in Lin Ko, Taiwan ROC.
March 23, 2001
Metaform Founder,
David Shaw, speaks on role of early creative arts
education and honors teacher Ms. Siu Fong Tai for her 30
years of service to the children of San Francisco's
Chinatown
at the
San Francisco Asian Art Museum benefiting the
Chinatown Community Children's Center
(CCCC). "Then
and Now, Making a Difference" was the theme of CCCC's
3rd Annual Spring Gala Fundraiser. Special guests
included San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, Actress and
Film Director, Joan Chen, San Francisco Police Chief,
Fred Lau, and KRON TV Reporter, Vic Lee.
March 14, 2000
SFMoMA
curator
Aaron Betsky
selects Metaform designs for "Vision
+ Reality" Exhibition.
September 16, 1999
Metaform honored among the "Bay Area's Best" by
the S.F. Chapter of the IDSA at the Yerba
Buena Gardens Center for the Arts in San Francisco.
June
7, 1999
Metaform earns prestigious IDEA Award from IDSA +
BusinessWeek
Magazine
for the VCR Co-Pilot.
The VCR Co-Pilot is the easiest, fastest way to record your favorite TV shows. Click to watch video of the TV commercial.
Spring 1997
Metaform Founder, David Shaw, returns to his alma mater San Jose State University to teach Industrial Design Visualization.
August 1, 1995
Metaform forms Star Wars Toy Development team with Galoob Toys and Lucasfilm.
May 5, 1995
David Shaw guest lectures at Fortune College of Technology in Kaohsiung, Taiwan ROC.
June
1, 1993
Polaroid MicroCam
designed in collaboration with
BWDA wins the Grand Prize in Modern
Plastics' First Annual Consumer Design Awards.
November 20, 1992
Gymtek Vaulting System wins US Olympic Committee Sports
Equipment Design Award at the Quadrennial Sports
Equipment Technology Symposium held at the U.S. Olympic
Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA.
July 1, 1991
Electronic Printer Abacus
designed by David Shaw wins ID Magazine Annual Design
Review Award for Concepts and earns the International
Designers' Choice Mark.
