Christof
Lead Industrial Designer
Christof is a lead industrial designer at RAAK. He works on concept, form and colour, material and finish, and carries designs through to the engineering handover.
A sensor that disappears: designing hardware for museums
Charp's climate monitors sit next to irreplaceable artworks. The design brief was to be precise, reliable and almost invisible. Notes on designing for a space that is not yours.
Christof
The case for calm hardware
Most products we are asked to design are trying too hard. A note on restraint, why it is harder than it looks, and what it does for a brand.
Christof
Colour, material and finish: decide it early or pay for it late
CMF is often treated as the last step. It is a manufacturing decision with tooling, cost and lead-time consequences, and it belongs in the engineering phase.
Christof
The brief we wish every client sent us
A good brief is one page and answers eight questions. It makes the quote faster, the design better and the arguments shorter.
Christof