Scott Summit
Bespoke Innovations
Bespoke Innovations
Scott Summit is a co-founder of Bespoke Innovations. Summit has been designing consumer products for more than 20 years, including innovations for Apple, Nike, Palm, and other major brands, many of which have earned patents, as well as IDEA and IDSA awards.
Summit has held faculty positions teaching design and process at Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon, and Singularity University. Additionally, Summit writes for Time Compression Magazine on the art and technology enabled by additive fabrication. He lives in the mountains of Marin County, California.
Related Links: http://www.bespokeinnovations.com/
Last Updated: Wed, Oct 5, 2011
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| Category | Title | Author/Speaker | Organization | Length | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Podcast | Products With a Purpose | Scott Summit | Bespoke | 58:05 | 10/2011 |
| Video | Products With a Purpose [Entire Talk] | Scott Summit | Bespoke | 57:28 | 10/2011 |
| Video | Re-thinking Form Follows Function | Scott Summit | Bespoke | 03:59 | 10/2011 |
| Video | A Revolution in Manufacturing | Scott Summit | Bespoke | 03:05 | 10/2011 |
| Video | Matching Your Product to Customers | Scott Summit | Bespoke | 03:48 | 10/2011 |
| Video | Connecting Passion to Progress | Scott Summit | Bespoke | 01:24 | 10/2011 |
| Video | The Trajectory of 3D-Printing Technology | Scott Summit | Bespoke | 01:08 | 10/2011 |
| Video | When Business Models Don't Work Out | Scott Summit | Bespoke | 01:04 | 10/2011 |
As the Co-Founder and CTO of Bespoke Innovations, Scott Summit leads a continuing effort to create products that radically change lives. In this lecture, Summit shares insights from creating customized prosthetic devices using new technologies in nascent markets. He also discusses some of challenges his company faced in discovering a working business model and developing customers.
As the Co-Founder and CTO of Bespoke Innovations, Scott Summit leads a continuing effort to create products that radically change lives. In this lecture, Summit shares insights from creating customized prosthetic devices using new technologies in nascent markets. He also discusses some of challenges his company faced in discovering a working business model and developing customers.
Bespoke Innovations Co-Founder Scott Summit explains how the mantra "form follows function" has been contorted into the idea "form follows mechanical function." According to Summit, this change has allowed product designers to think they have a free reign to create clunky and purely utilitarian designs. Summit relates how Bespoke works to counter this idea when designing prosthetic legs that possess greater form and artistry.
Designer Scott Summit, co-founder of Bespoke Innovations, discusses the impact of three-dimensional scanning and printing in the world of product design. This revolutionary technology offers important improvements on traditional manufacturing, says Summit, and provides new avenues for creating customized and long-lasting products and artifacts.
Bespoke Innovations Co-Founder Scott Summit shares his company's challenge in finding a working business model and matching product to customers in a viable market. Originally inspired to bring prosthetic legs to customers in the developing world, Summit and his team faced issues of cost, time and complexity, which lead them to eventually focus on higher-end offerings for customers in the U.S. market.
"It's not about selling product; it's about creating lasting meaning," says designer and entrepreneur Scott Summit. As the co-founder of Bespoke Innovations, Summit is excited to be fulfilling a boyhood passion by participating in a space full of developing technologies making real impact on the lives of customers.
In response to a question about the future of three-dimensional printing in manufacturing, Bespoke Innovations Co-Founder Scott Summit shares his opinion of the trajectory of this new technology. Summit believes 3D-printing technology has reached a "Columbus" moment of discovery, where designers and technologists in different fields know they're on the cusp of a huge leap forward.
"Sometimes you just have to bite your lip, wince a few times and move on," says entrepreneur Scott Summit, in response to a question on what happens when your original business model does not work out. The co-founder of Bespoke Innovations talks about the painful challenge in accepting this fact, when he was unable to produce cutting-edge prosthetics, at appropriate price points, for the developing world.