![]() I like how something that's hand-drawn can become vector art but still hold on to its organic curves - it helps if we don't want a design to look too "CAD". I still use it occasionally to input some odd shape I've come up with on the fly, or some old design from my archives I'm revisiting. When I first moved from making patterns by hand to digital designing, I used a GTCO CalComp Roll-Up III digitizer to input all my existing designs. One of the things I appreciate most about our company is that a lot of the design process is happening in the factory - there's a beautiful co-evolution between design and manufacturing that you don't get when the design process is physically removed from the build process. ![]() These days when I am sewing prototypes, I either am in the factory using whatever sewing machine is available or I'm in my studio using my new Seiko. That specific Consew I started with is now over 30 years old and still sees daily service in my factory: Tao uses it to do three-fold bias binding. Seiko was the OEM for Consew, so it's the same as the old Consew machine. Basically a machine made for heavy work like sewing leather and upholstery - an incredibly flexible tool (if you buy a new one today it's reputed to be not so great - buy a Seiko STH-8BLD instead. The sewing tool I used for over two decades was a Consew 206RB, with a compound walking foot. One of my most obvious tools is a sewing machine (Ivan Illich would call it a tool, not a machine - I like that). I love using Bic's writes-in-four-colors pens: each color can represent whatever it needs to at the time: lining/exterior, new/old, this/that. Sketching and note taking: my favorite sketchpads are from the Mirage Paperco.įor some reason I'm drawn to square sketchbooks instead of rectangular ones: sometimes turning an idea 90 degrees suddenly makes it work. When I'm being a CEO I'm working when I'm being a designer I'm having fun. we design and manufacture travel bags, backpacks, laptop cases. ![]() I'm Tom Bihn, CEO and chief designer at TOM BIHN INC. ![]()
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