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The Oode studio team

You bring the idea.
We bring the team.

One person with a brief is enough. A product with parts from several makers needs someone to connect them, and that is our job: we design it in the Studio with you, and bring together the parts and the makers it takes.

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Seen from above on a pale table: a paper pattern piece for a vest, two swatches of navy fabric, a thin heating panel, a small controller with one button, a battery, a cable, blue thread, snaps and a zip.
One product, several makers.

What you get

  1. Your product designed in the Studio, with you
  2. The simplest way to build it, chosen early
  3. The parts and the makers it takes, brought together
  4. Each supplier’s certificates checked with the lab that issued them
  5. A sample, built and tested
  6. The first batch, shipped to your door

You deal with one party throughout.

A heating panel half under folded navy fabric, a small controller with one button and its coiled cable, a spool of blue thread behind.

What the team takes on

From a brief to a first batch. Each part is done with you or for you.

An open plain cardboard box holding folded navy fabric tied with blue thread under a paper pattern piece, with a spool of blue thread and a zip beside it.
  1. With you, in the Studio

    The design

    We design it in the Studio with you: its shape, its sizes, and where each part sits.

  2. Oode

    The simplest way to build it

    Early choices decide how much has to be tested later. We make them with you before anything is ordered.

  3. Oode

    The parts and the makers

    We bring together the parts and the makers it takes. Parts that already exist come first; a specialist designs one when the product needs it.

  4. Oode

    The papers

    Each supplier’s certificates are checked with the lab that issued them.

  5. Oode and a test lab

    A sample and its tests

    A sample is built and tested. We plan the tests; the testing itself is done by a lab.

  6. Oode and the maker

    The first batch, delivered

    One maker assembles it and the batch is shipped to your door.

A worked example

How a project runs

A heated vest

A slim vest for the city with printed heating panels, a battery and a button for the heat. Nothing in it is new, but it has to be safe, it has to work, and it must not be bulky.

A drawing of the vest taken apart: the shell, a quilted lining, two heating panels, the controller with its heat button, the battery pocket, the battery and the zip, joined by a cable.
This is an example of how such a project runs: Oode has not made this vest.

  1. The brief

    You

    Who wears it, what it is for, and what it must not be.

  2. The garment

    You, in the Studio

    The cut, the sizes, where the heating panels and cable runs sit, the battery pocket.

  3. The simplest way to build it

    Oode

    Its own battery, or the wearer’s power bank? Early choices like this decide how much has to be tested later.

  4. The parts and their papers

    Oode

    Heating panels, a controller and a battery: certified parts where they exist, a specialist’s design where one has to be made. Each supplier’s certificates are checked with the lab that issued them.

  5. A sample, its safety and its paperwork

    Oode and a test lab

    A sample is built and tested, and the documents for the markets you will sell in are put together: CE in Europe, and its counterparts elsewhere.

  6. The first batch, delivered

    Oode and the maker

    One maker assembles it and the batch is shipped to your door. You deal with one party throughout.

Where the line is

Parts that exist come first

We start from parts that already exist, and bring in a specialist when a part has to be designed for the product.

A lab does the testing

We check papers and plan the tests; the testing itself is done by a lab.

Not a new phone

We do not take on products where the electronics are the invention: this is not the place to build a new phone.

The Studio alone, or the team

A project in the Oode Studio: guest slides drawn in 3D, with their checks beside them.
On your own

Open the Studio

For one thing made one way: guest slides, a staff set, a machined part. You design it and the Studio checks it.

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A heating panel, a small controller, a battery and a coiled cable laid out on a pale table.
With the team

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For a product with parts from several makers, or one that has to be tested before it is sold.

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Tell us what you would like made

How many, and by when. A sentence is enough to start. The Oode studio team replies by email.

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