Autodesk Inventor, one of the industry’s leading digital prototyping solutions, enables design, engineering, and manufacturing teams to collaborate throughout the process of product development.

Working with Eleven, Cobra Creative produced a concept that follows the creation of a mobile phone—from design through manufacturing—to show how Inventor integrates each phase of the process into a seamless workflow. Along with creative direction and motion and sound design, we developed the framework and devised a localization solution allowing the titles to be translated easily into multiple languages.

At a recent Autodesk event, one of my colleagues told me about a design contest that had been held in Poland for users of Autodesk Inventor. Here are some of the entries that we have been sent for the gallery.

Created by Rhys Evans from Ysgol Dinas Brân School in North Wales using Autodesk SketchBook Mobile on his iPhone

At a recent Autodesk event, one of my colleagues told me about a design contest that had been held in Poland for users of Autodesk Inventor. Here are some of the entries that we have been sent for the gallery.

Image courtesy of D. Harrington

At a recent Autodesk event, one of my colleagues told me about a design contest that had been held in Poland for users of Autodesk Inventor. Here are some of the entries that we have been sent for the gallery.

Images courtesy Patrick Emin

In the final days before Autodesk's initial public stock offering (IPO) in May of 1985, John Walker and Al Green went on the traditional “road show” (or “dog and pony show”—I don't know who was the dog and who was the pony, but I sure felt like a dog by the time it was over!). This involves travelling to various cities in the United States to meet with the institutional investors to whom the investment bankers are trying to peddle the offering. As I recall, we made road show presentations in San Francisco (a warm-up for the trip), Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Chicago, Boston, New York, and Baltimore (the latter the home city of one of our underwriters, Alex. Brown).

The presentation was accompanied by the usual slick professionally-produced slides. I have reassembled the presentation from slides in my collection. I'm not sure I have all the slides (although it's likely, since I have duplicates of many of them), nor that we showed the slides in exactly this order; this is how I'd arrange the slides were I doing it today. I spoke first and covered the following slides.