Awards Overview for Design 1st
| Award Type | Count |
|---|---|
| Platinum A' Design Award | 0 |
| Gold A' Design Award | 0 |
| Silver A' Design Award | 1 |
| Bronze A' Design Award | 2 |
| Iron A' Design Award | 0 |
| Runner-up A' Design Award | 0 |
| Total Awards | 3 |
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Career Highlights of Design 1st
Notable Achievements
- Total Awards: 3
- Total Score: 10
- Global Ranking: #2795 Worldwide
- Top Award: Silver ( 1 × )
Areas of Expertise
- Office and Business Appliances Design
- Wearable Technologies Design
Top Designs
| Design Name | Category | Award | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arc | Office and Business Appliances Design | Bronze | 2022 |
| Calibre | Wearable Technologies Design | Bronze | 2022 |
Featured Designs by Design 1st
Arc
An intelligent mobile device management system in one centralized kiosk to help companies manage and charge handheld mobile devices. Modular to support device growth, the heavy-gauge steel lockers kee...
Category: Office and Business Appliances Design
Award: Bronze (2022)
Calibre
Calibre was inspired by a belief that access to meaningful, reliable data can improve everyday health and performance. Calibre packs a suite of gas and pressure sensors into a tiny, portable, wireless...
Category: Wearable Technologies Design
Award: Bronze (2022)
About Design 1st
Biography
A passionate product designer and business executive, Kevin Bailey helps guide CEO’s, start-ups and established companies through the maze of hardware product development. Spending over 35 years in the detailed designing of hardware products, Kevin is now an expert at assessing risk and opportunity when making the hundreds of decisions required to move from a vision to a physical product that customers find useful and businesses can manufacture.
Since the early 1980’s Kevin has been on the ground floor of global hardware product innovation, cutting his teeth with National Research Council, General Motors, Shell, Bell Northern Research Labs and Nortel Networks where he worked on the first global smartphone development in 1994. After founding Design 1st in 1996, Kevin has emerged as one of the leaders at stickhandling hardware product development from concept to design including mechanical engineering and go-to-market manufacturing set-up.
As CEO and president of Design 1st, clients and staff rely on Kevin’s strategic thinking to guide the full suite of development and manufacturing oriented product decisions. The company’s results with new product development speaks for itself. More than 1,000 start-ups and global enterprise corporations—such as Motorola, Acer, Stanley Tools, Ericsson and Christie Digital—have brought hardware product ideas to life under Kevin’s guidance. Kevin and his team of thirty creative experts bring up to 70 projects to market for a diversity of clients each year.
Kevin is a Mechanical Engineer graduating top of class in 1984 from the University of Waterloo and has been a registered member of the Professional Engineers of Ontario since 1985. Kevin is also a VC and Angel Investor and one of Canada’s leading experts at bringing innovative new hardware product designs to market.
Areas of Expertise
- Office and Business Appliances Design
- Wearable Technologies Design
Country
Canada
Statistics and Insights
Performance Metrics
Key Statistics
- Total Score: 10
- Total Awards: 3
- Global Ranking: #2795
- Performance Score: 8.67 / 10
Insights
Design 1st's performance score of 8.67 places them in the top tier of designers worldwide. This score, which ranges from 0 to 10, reflects not just the quantity but also the quality of awards received.
With a total of 3 awards and a global ranking of #2795, Design 1st has demonstrated consistent excellence in Office and Business Appliances Design, Wearable Technologies Design .
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