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Sunday, April 26th, 2009From a simple observation, a promise for the future.
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From a simple observation, a promise for the future.
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The NEUTROGENA Healthy Skin Rejuvenator is a snap. Simply wet and attach the puff, then rejuvenate your skin’s look. No measuring. No mess. Just great-looking skin.
The Wet/Dry System Applicator was designed and developed by Robert Radi for NEUTROGENA. © Neutrogena Corporation 2007-2008 |
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Robert Radi is a designer for today’s demanding marketplace. He combines the sense of a true artist, dedicated to providing product designs that achieve incredible and unique aesthetic functionality, with the sensitivities of an experienced engineer, focused on creating designs that meet the manufacturing, ergonomic, and technical requirements necessary for high functionality of the end product. In today’s world of “high tech” manufacturing, the possibilities for achieving the lofty goals of product developers have increased dramatically. However, this places great demands on today’s product designers. Robert Radi has taken the time and effort required to continually increase his awareness and understanding of the ever-changing needs of product developers in order to remain on the forefront of product design, style, and technological trends. Robert Radi creates a synergy between style and function, across core industries and product categories which is rare in today’s world of either highly designed product that places look and feel over function or overly functionally designed product that is unapproachable by the average consumer. Radi designs meet the need for functionality while remaining true to the substance of the product and the identity that the product is meant to achieve for the end user and/or customer. From the very beginning Mr. Radi business approach was to maintain a highly effective and manageable operation, as his wish was to be a designer and not a manager, thus creating a structure suitable to design products for Clients of any size. |
“….a synergy between style and function, across core industries and product categories….”
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Radi in Italy is not an anonymous last name. It is a brand name that since 1926, first under steady leadership of its founder Serafino Radi and then under the strong management of his son Mario, has meant quality and innovation. Today, it is still a brand that the Merloni Group S.p.A. owns with pride, after having purchased it from RHEEM back in the mid-eighties. Many generations of workers found employment at Radi Industries, and for years after the Great War, Radi Industries was the protagonist of the first industrial boom in Italy. It was Serafino, Roberto’s grandfather, who invented and then established a state-of-the-art manufacturing plant. In 1926, Serafino designed and produced small space heaters and neon lamps. By 1933, his manufacturing plant churned out 1000 water-heaters per month. It was a different era, a time in which our society moved from artisan production to mass industrial manufacturing. Above all, it was the beginning of the era of consumer products. Serafino Radi intuitively understood the market trend and developed production of a product that was heretofore only a dream to most Italian families: the home water-heater. Willing to take a chance, following a hunch backed by his knowledge of engineering, Serafino struck gold. Robert Radi, Serafino’s grandson, looks to establish himself, in his own right, as innovator for the new Millenium. This innovation is manifested in Radi’s Styling & Design. And if “genetics” had a role in all this, we believe, after meeting him, that it’s also a matter of style, character, will power and intelligence for Robert. His simplicity, modesty, and ability to acknowledge his origins without negating his past, are certainly attributes that make Robert Radi a serious professional and a brilliant interpreter of talent and creativity. |
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Industry Product Research and Strategy Development. Conceptual Design and Ideation. 3D Modeling suitable for tooling. Product Development in Function of Ergonomics, Human Factors and Manufacturing Requirements. Working Mock-ups and Camera Ready Prototypes. Electrical & Software Development and Integration of User Interface. Tooling & Manufacturing Sourcing and Management. Brand Definition and Corporate Identity. Packaging Design and Visual Communication.
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Production samples are here and looking sleek. Ginsu will begin shipping the product to retailers this week. Check back soon for more information, and images of this product.
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radi design, inc. 8350 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 200 Beverly Hills, CA 90211 T. 323.556.0788
F. 323.556.0838
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Robert Radi, an award-winning designer based in Beverly Hills, California, has reached a new career milestone today: 15 years of product design and development done right.
Radi still approaches every new Project with the same enthusiasm and ambition that set him apart fifteen years ago and landed him the first Product Design Account.
“I offer the constant striving to create a product that is best suited to the client, the market, and the consumer” says Radi “In order to do that, we try to understand the entire context for the design, from its place in a company’s brand strategy to its tooling in the factory to its future role in a consumer’s everyday life. By incorporating these elements into the design process, we are able to produce work that is relevant, intelligent, and, of course, aesthetically pleasing.”
Radi is best known for some of his most commercially successful designs-including Personal Microdermabrasion and Consumer Product projects — that have collectively generated more than $200 million in sales. Radi’s entire body of work demonstrates his attention to detail, his unique sense of styling, but also his ability to come up with humorous, original concepts for consumer products.
Radi grew up in Northern Italy, borne into a rich tradition of design and invention within his family lineage. He moved to the United States some 17 years ago and has gone on to achieve considerable acclaim, winning in excess of a dozen design awards in the last four years alone.
Radi has designed products for mass and limited production for companies such as Johnson & Johnson, Guthy-Renker, DermaNew, MeadWestvaco, Snapware, Mattel, Revlon, Apex Digital, Toyota, Neutrogena, Avery Dennison, Aroma Houseware, and Berkshire Hathaway (GINSU Brand) — to name a few.
In 2006 the creativity and design of Robert Radi, has been recognized in an editorial project by Fusion Publishing (Los Angeles – Stuttgart). The beautifully executed book celebrates the inspired work of 61 pioneering designers who represent the new American generation.
In 2005, Robert Radi launched his Limited Edition Eyewear line, still one of his ongoing pride and joy. He is currently working with several of his high-profile clients on products that will be released in 2009.
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SUPPLIER GLOBAL RESOURCE MAGAZINE – OCT 2006 (USA) title: Seeing the Future: A Forecast of Upcoming Product Trends ( page 53, 54, 55 ) by Michele Bell, Editor
PLASTIC PACKAGING INNOVATION NEWS – PIRA PUBLISHING – SEP 2006 (UK) title: Brand Owner Show Interest in New Labeling Concept (page 1 and 2) title: New ice cream package developed (page 3) by: Margaret Garn, Senior Editor
Young Designers Americas – Summer 2006 – published by daab, 400-page – color edited by: Carissa Kowalski Dougherty
Los Angeles Business Journal – May 2006 (USA) – Title: Stuff – Innovation by: Sarah Filus
COSMETIC & PERSONAL CARE PACKAGING MAGAZINE – MAY2006 (USA) – Title: Editors’ Choice Award
IOnOne LIVE MAGAZINE – JAN 2006 (USA) – Title: The Good Design 2005
IOnOne LIVE MAGAZINE – JAN 2006 (USA) – Title: 1 @ IOnOne Subject: The list of the Best of 2005.
IVELO – JAN 2006 (FRANCE) – Title: Le designer californien Robert Radi vient de recevoir un Prix pour ces lunettes DEXIGNER – DEC 05 (EUROPE) Title: Robert Radi Honored with Good Design 2005 by: Levent OZLER – Editor-In-Chief
Eyes Way Webzine – Dec 15 2005 (ITALY) – Title: Robert Radi vince Good Design Award 2005
IOnOne LIVE MAGAZINE – NOV 2005 (USA) – Title: Design, from aesthetic to functionality. by: IOnOne.com / Subject: Robert Radi, functional active sportswear.
COSMETIC & PERSONAL CARE PACKAGING MAGAZINE – OCT 2005 (USA) – Title: Hidden Value by: Jennifer Kwok – Managing Editor / Subject: The scroll container.
BUSINESSWEEK online / CORE 77 – OCT 2005 (USA) – Title: Robert Radi – Razorback Sports Eyewear by Core 77
SEATTLE POST INTELLIGENCER – OCT 2005 (USA) – Title: Robert Radi expands eyewear line. by: Staff / Seattlepi.com
IMPACT 210 Online Fashion Magazine – OCT 2005 (NY/USA) – Title: Industry News – Robert Radi Performance Eyewear Line. by: Staff / Impact 210.com
DESIGN WEEK MAGAZINE – SEP 2005 (UK) – Title: Robert Radi interviewed by Clare Dowdy – Full page profile by: Clare Dowdy
MARIE CLARE – OCT 2005 (USA) – Featured Pictorial: Neutrogena Microdemabrasion Device (design: Robert Radi)
MORE MAGAZINE – OCT 2005 (USA) – Featured Pictorial: Neutrogena Microdemabrasion Device (design: Robert Radi)
ELLE MAGAZINE – OCT 2005 (USA) - Featured Pictorial: SUPERMARKET STYLE
SELF MAGAZINE – SEP 2005 (USA) – Featured Pictorial: Neutrogena Microdemabrasion Device (design: Robert Radi)
DEXIGNER - JULY 2005 (EUROPE) - Title: Robert Radi nominated for the DesignPreis2006 by: Levent OZLER – Editor-In-Chief
DEFRAG MAGAZINE – JULY 2005 (ITALY) - Title: Robert Radi riceve Nomination per il prestigioso DesignPreis by: Sara De Deo - Web Editor
BUDGET LIVING MAGAZINE – APR/MAY 2005 (USA) - Title: Mrodermabrasion: Dermatologist’s vs. At-Home System (pg. 30) by: Tracey Perez – Writer
QUOTIDIANI L’ESPRESSO – TRENTINO (ITALY) - Title: Il nuovo sucesso del designer roveretano Date: Mar 01, 2005
COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE – MAR 2005 (USA) – Title: GO FOR THE GLOW (pg. 231 – product featured)
MARIE CLARE MAGAZINE (USA) – MAR 2005 – Featured Pictorial: Neutrogena Microdemabrasion Device (design: Robert Radi)
OPRAH MAGAZINE (USA) – MAR 2005 – Featured Pictorial: Neutrogena Microdemabrasion Device (design: Robert Radi)
I.D. MAGAZINE - JAN/FEB 2005 (USA) - Title: New & Notable / Razorback Quadra by Robert Radi by: David Sokol – Managing Editor
ALLURE MAGAZINE – FEB 2005 (USA) - Title: Neutrogena Healthy Beauty News
CBS – KMOV 4 St. Louis, Missouri (USA) - Title: News 4 Health Team: Microdermabrasion by: Lisa Manzo - date: Jan 26, 2005
BEVERLY HILLS COURIER (USA) - Title: BH Designer Robert Radi Honored Again date: Jan 21, 2005
ELLE MAGAZINE – MAR 2005 (USA) - Featured Pictorial: Calmar Sonnet (design: Robert Radi)
SKI CANADA (CANADA) - Title: New Razorback Quadra, High Performance Ski Goggle by: Canadian Ski Council - date: Jan 19, 2005
DEXIGNER - JAN 2005 (EUROPE) – Title: Robert Radi honored with 4 good design awards. by: Levent OZLER – Editor-In-Chief
ROBB REPORT COLLECTION (WEB) - JAN 2005 (USA) – Title: Razorback Quadra – Imagine Skiing in HDTV Wide Screen Format
OFFICE SOLUTIONS MAGAZINE - NOV/DEC 2004 (USA) - Title: Hottest new office products for 2005: Avery Label Dispenser by: Scott Cullen – Managing Editor ADI DESIGN INDEX 2004 (ITALY) - Published Book - Title: MiniVac by Radi by: Editrice Compositori
ADI DESIGN INDEX 2004 (ITALY) - Published Book - Title: American Angler Knife by Radi by: Editrice Compositori
FIRST TRACKS!! SKI MAGAZINE- NOV 2004 (USA) – Title: A Clearly Visible Difference by: Marc Guido – Editor
ALL ABOUT VISION – NOV 2004 (USA) – Title: What’s New in Sunglasses by: Liz Segre – Editor
LUXIST – OCT 2004 (USA) - Title: Razorback Quadra Winter Goggle by: Deidre Woollard
GOOD HOUSEKEEPING – OCT 2004 (USA) - Title: NEW GROOMING GIZMOS
CORE77 DESIGN MAGAZINE – OCT 2004 (USA) - Title: Razorback Quadra Launched by: Allan Chochinov
DEXIGNER – OCT 2004 (EUROPE) - Title: Robert Radi launches the Razorback Quadra by: Levent OZLER – Editor-In-Chief
RUBBER STAMPER MAGAZINE – SEP 2004 (USA) – Title: Bring Your Own Stamps.
ARCHIMAGAZINE – SEP 2004 (ITALY) - Title: Robert Radi e l’ industrial design by Giovanna Eghenter – Journalist
QUOTIDIANI L’ESPRESSO – TRENTINO (ITALY) - Title: Radi enters the 2004 “hall” of design Date: June 22, 2004
CORE77 DESIGN MAGAZINE - MAY 2004 (USA) - Title: Studio Bullitts by: Allan Chochinov
TRENTINI NEL MONDO - APR 2004 (ITALY) - Title: Altri importanti riconoscimenti a Robert Radi by: Giovanna Eghenter – Journalist
JUSTINE MAGAZINE – APR 2004 (USA) - Title: Smooth as a baby’s…..
DEXIGNER – APR 2004 (EUROPE) - Title: The Avery Label Dispenser by: Levent OZLER – Editor
REDBOOK – MAR 2004 (USA) - Title: Smooth Skin for Spring by: Cheryl Kramer
L’ITALO AMERICANO - MAR 2004 (ITALY) - Title: Altri importanti riconoscimenti a Robert Radi by: Giovanna Eghenter – Journalist
WOMEN HEALTH & FITNESS – MAR 2004 (USA) - Title: Heads Up! by: Erika Sumerfield
QUOTIDIANI L’ESPRESSO – TRENTINO (ITALY) - Title: Robert Radi style captivates the USA by: Bruno Coveli - date: Jan 25, 2004
PAPERKUTS MAGAZINE – JUN/JUL 2003 (USA) - Title: Hot Stuff
TRENTINI NEL MONDO - DEC 2002 (ITALY) - Title: Talento italiano e formazione americana per dare “tridimensionalita’” alle idee. by: Giovanna Eghenter – Journalist
L’ITALO AMERICANO - NOV 2002 (USA) - Title: Importante riconoscimento al connazionale Robert Radi. by: Giovanna Eghenter – Journalist
I.D. MAGAZINE - OCT 2002 (USA) – Title: The Last Lion of 20th Century American Industrial Design by: Robert Radi
L’ITALO AMERICANO - SEP 2000 (USA) Title: From an idea to a 3Dimensional object: Robert Radi and his Design. by: Giovanna Eghenter – Journalist
ADIGE (ITALY) - Title: L’ambasciatore Perlot e’ trentino dell’anno, Roberto Radi e’ personaggio per il futuro. Date: May 24, 1998
UCT – Rivista di Arte & Scienza – NOV 1998 (ITALY) - Title: Roberto Radi: un trentino di sucesso a Los Angeles by: Sergio Bernardi - Editor – In – Chief
UCT – Rivista di Arte & Scienza – MAY 1998 (ITALY) - Title: Il trentino dell’anno edizione 1997 by: Sergio Bernardi - Editor – In – Chief
ESSENCE MAGAZINE – NOV 1997 (USA) - Title: New products, great looks by: Deborah Gregory
ALTO ADIGE (ITALY) – Title: Ma intuito ed ingegno sono “mali” di famiglia date: Aug 28, 1997
QUOTIDIANI L’ESPRESSO – TRENTINO (ITALY) – Title: Exporting Robert Radi by: Bruno Coveli - date: Aug 28, 1997
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