Whipsaw is an industrial design and product development consulting firm in San Jose, California, with a staff of 25 designers and engineers. Whipsaw creates breakthrough product experiences across the consumer electronics, medical and business product categories. Whipsaw’s clients range from start-ups to large international corporations, and include such companies as Acer, Cisco, Creative Labs, Dell, Eton, Intel, Leapfrog, Pioneer and Vudu. Whipsaw has demonstrated a repeated ability to develop designs that are not only award-winning but also highly successful in the mass consumer marketplace. Whipsaw has won over 100 design awards since its inception in 1999, including numerous IDEA, CES Innovations, Red Dot, iF, MDEA, Gmarks and D&AD awards. In 2008, BusinessWeek magazine ranked Whipsaw among the top 3 design firms in the world, while Fast Company ranked Whipsaw in its top 5 firms the following year. Whipsaw’s work has been published in BusinessWeek, Fast Company, Fortune, ID Magazine, Newsweek, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Wired. Whipsaw’s designs are in the permanent collection at the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture & Design, the Pasadena Museum of California Art, and the Smithsonian Institution’s Cooper Hewitt Design Museum.
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Specialties
product development, industrial design, engineering
