Shipped
Industrial design · Eindhoven
From sketch to tooling.
Studio Plinth designs physical products that actually reach production — housings, handles, hinges, the parts people touch ten thousand times. Four designers, a workshop with real machines, and a rule that nothing ships that we haven't broken first.
Process
P0 to P3, honestly.
Every product goes through four prototypes. The numbers are real stages on our workshop wall, not a slide.
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The ugly one
Cardboard, hot glue and printed parts inside a week. It answers the only question that matters this early: is the idea worth a month?
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The working one
Machined and printed, correct mechanisms, wrong materials. This is the prototype users get their hands on — and the one that changes the brief.
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The honest one
Right materials, near-final tolerances, tested to failure on the bench. Whatever breaks here would have broken at a customer. Cheaper here.
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The tooling one
Draft angles, wall thicknesses, the boring drawings that make injection moulders answer emails. We stay through first shots off the tool.
Work
Parts in the world.
A sample of what's left the building. Filter by where it stands.
In tooling
Surgical handle line — P2 bench tests passed, tooling started
Shipped
Measurement grip — a tool people hold 400 times a day
The bureau
Off the workshop wall.
4 Prototypes per product, never fewer
31 Products in production, counted by tools
7d Brief to P0. Speed is a design decision
0.1mm Where most of our arguments happen
If we haven't broken it, we haven't designed it.
Engagements
Three ways to work.
Fixed prices for the phases we can see; honest ranges for the ones nobody can. Every engagement starts with the P0 week.
The P0 Week
€6,500 one week, fixed
Your problem, our workshop, five days. You leave with an ugly prototype and a truthful answer about the month.
- The ugly prototype, yours
- A go/no-go you can trust
The Program
scoped at P€0 P1 → P3
The full arc to tooling, priced per phase after the P0 week has shrunk the unknowns.
- Phase-gate pricing, no surprises
- We stay through first shots
The Bench Retainer
€3,800 per month
For hardware teams that need a workshop and four opinions on tap — reviews, fixes, tolerance arguments.
- 48h turnaround on reviews
- Workshop hours included
Clients
After first shots
The P0 week killed our idea. Best €6,500 we ever spent — the tooling quote we didn't sign was €140,000.
They argued with us about 0.1 millimetres for a week. In production, that argument is why the hinge doesn't creak. We now start every project with them.
Our moulder said the drawings were the cleanest he'd seen from a design studio. First shots worked. Nobody believed us at the trade fair.
The workshop
Strijp, the door with the orange P.
Bring the problem, the constraint, or the part that keeps failing. Fridays the machines run demos — visitors welcome, safety glasses provided.
- hello@example.com
- Phone
- +31 40 555 0173
- Address
- Eindhoven
- Hours
- Mon–Fri 9–18 Friday demos 15:00, glasses at the door