Results-Driven Product Development
GinnDesign is a product development consultancy in Raleigh, NC that artfully blends creative and thoughtful industrial design with innovative materials and manufacturing expertise.
We develop successful product solutions for clients ranging from start-ups and small companies to academic institutions and large corporations within a wide variety of markets. The key to our success is working effectively with all members of the team including managers, designers, engineers, vendors, suppliers, and manufacturers.
By combining over twenty-five years of experience and a broad range of capabilities, GinnDesign can play a multi-functional role in your organization. This collaborative, multi-disciplinary approach will add value to your organization and generate real-world results that benefit your company, the product, and the user.
About Warren Ginn, Principal and Lead Designer
With over twenty-five years of product design and development experience, Warren Ginn, FIDSA is Principal of GinnDesign, LLC. Since graduating from school, he has been passionate about product design, materials, and manufacturing. He has particular expertise in and affection for product design for medium and low-volume production that mix materials and processes to create innovative solutions.
Before starting GinnDesign, Warren was Senior Research Industrial Designer at the Renaissance Computing Institute (Renci) in Chapel Hill, NC and before that, Director of Product Development for Elumens Corporation in Durham, NC.
Prior to moving back to North Carolina, he worked for 7 years as an industrial designer for Integrated Design Systems, a small product development firm in Long Island, NY and for 3 years as the designer for Fort Wayne Plastics, a large structural foam molder in Fort Wayne, IN.
He has served on the board of the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) as the Professional Interest Section VP and was previously Chair of the Materials and Processes Section for over 10 years. In August of 2012, he was inducted into the IDSA Academy of Fellows.
Warren was the guest editor of IDSA’s Spring 2011 Innovation magazine (his article, “The Three Stages of Understanding” can be found on page 22 of this PDF). He is constantly evangelizing the value of materials and processes education within the industrial design community as well as improving the collaboration between the industrial design, engineering, and manufacturing communities. He received his Bachelor of Environmental Design in Product Design from North Carolina State University and 23 years later earned his Master of Industrial Design from North Carolina State University. He is now teaching at the College of Design at NC State as Assistant Professor of the Practice of Industrial Design where he is responsible for the Materials and Processes courses in the Industrial Design curriculum.