Our Story
Pollen Design was founded in 1997 as a full service design and development firm with a particular focus on consumer and household products. We serve large clients and small; From consumer electronics, satellite radios, telephones, sound systems, to housewares, kitchenwares, office equipment, portable technology, apparel and everything in between. Pollen has developed deep expertise in a broad span of categories.
Our name was borne out of the fact that the firm is cross-pollinated and influenced by the dynamic worlds of fashion, engineering, architecture, graphics, film, sculpture, art, music, and e-media. These are the influences that keep Pollen bubbling with fresh ideas and aesthetic enthusiasm.
Client's find Pollen to be very flexible, highly creative, innovative, significantly practical, and tremendously client focused. We aim to help companies make significant strides in their product design and new product development efforts by sparking breakthrough ideas that improve our clients performance, both from a marketing and financial perspective.
Our team-based approach integrates research and design with engineering and branding to ensure that our products connect emotionally and physically with the user. We design products that give consumers feelings of pleasure, pride, and a sense of meaningful activity, products that delight, products that trigger lasting interest and affection, in essence products with value.
Pollen and its people have achieved success in the marketplace and have won numerous design accolades. Our designs have garnered rave reviews in magazines, blogs, retail web sites, periodicals, and television. Our success lies in our ability to build trust-based relationships with our clients that in turn get validity through our hands-on approach to design, our accountability and responsibility to the client, and constant communication loops with all constituents involved.
Since our inception we have helped bring to market over 500 products. Our deep understanding of trends, usability research, manufacturing processes, shipping, warehousing and distribution has given us empathy and insight into the multifarious world of margins, marketing, sales and retail.
Our success as a design firm can also be judged first hand in our ability to ‘practice what we preach’. Taking from the ground up, (napkin sketch to successful retail brand) Prepara, one of the fastest growing kitchen tools brands in the housewares industry. We have been involved in every aspect including; Brand positioning, product invention and development, manufacturing, intellectual property, pricing, forecasting, sourcing, shipping , warehousing, retailing, web site, packaging, in fact, every touch point of this burgeoning, multi faceted brand.
