Firmhouse Company Blog » New products http://firmhouse.nl/blog The company blog of Firmhouse. We share our thoughts and experience on prototyping, concepting and random stuff. Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:54:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Sneak preview iPhone case engraving http://firmhouse.nl/blog/2009/07/08/sneak-preview-iphone-case-engraving/ http://firmhouse.nl/blog/2009/07/08/sneak-preview-iphone-case-engraving/#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:38:59 +0000 Bob Jansen http://firmhouse.nl/blog/?p=55 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> We know, we’re an internet company and probably we should stick to that. But we liked to explore the production of physical products. Or to say, customization of physical products. We’ve been inspired by Engraved Moleskine Covers, whom produce cool covers for Moleskine notebooks. We aim to bring this to the iPhone in a slightly different way.

When creating webservices we use prototyping to see what works. So we did with engraving these skins. We started with some plain leather, Omar Munie gave us some remaining materials to test the engraving on leather. Watch the video below to see how this turned out.

(Watch in HD)

I sacrificed my old Knomo iPod case to apply our company logo. We used the front to experiment with some grayscales, but it didn’t turn out that well. So we’re looking into that right now.

We also tested with a case imported from China. Anniething was kind enough to give one for testing purposes (thanks!). For engraving the materials we use the laser engraving machine from CabFabLab. Probably we will partner with them to actually start producing these cases & sleeves.

More information will be coming soon!

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