Experience
Our Principals have taken dozens of projects from concept to production for over 30 clients in the past 15 years, demonstrating the expertise and knowledge you need. With a focus on manufacturing materials and techniques, we incorporate production aspects from the initial sketch so our clients aren’t surprised when the quantity goes from 100 to 100,000.
As a creative agency, we do not want to be specialized in one industry or pigeonholed in a specific service niche; we want to solve problems and create innovative solutions. Sometimes a problem might be single-use plastic that needs to be replaced with a more sustainable option, sometimes a solution looks like a short film with interviews filmed on location overseas.
What separates The Autonomous Collective from other firms, aside from our unwavering commitment to our clients, is a creative development process informed by traditional industrial design, advertising, manufacturing engineering and simulation, commercial photography, package development, mechanical engineering, video production, and prototyping. An intimate understanding of these diverse fields ensures that our project management is efficient and applicable to your needs and our process is an eclectic mix of best-practices.
Involved in more than 15 patents
over 50 products brought to market
Hundreds of hours pro-bono work
non-profit design initiative
Designing for Good
In partnership with Global Humanitarian Service, The Autonomous Collective is giving back. We are able to provide seasoned design experience to those in need, leveraging years of industry expertise to create unique solutions to approachable problems. Collective Humanitarian works with missionaries, personal contacts, and other NGOs to identify opportunities for improvement in the areas these organizations operate. We only choose projects that come from contacts with deep personal connections to local people in order to create solutions that meet their direct needs, are locally sustainable, and will have the most impact for our investment. The last thing we want to do is identify a perceived problem from afar and make a US-based product that cannot be made or maintained locally. When someone in the developing world says, “someone should make a…” Collective Humanitarian wants to be that someone
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Global Humanitarian Service is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of people in developing countries in a fiscally sound and responsible manner.
Like Short Stories?
We like well-written stories about interesting people as much as anyone. That’s why there’s a spot for them on this site. In 17 years of international travel and a decade-and-a-half in the professional world, our founder has crossed paths with many extraordinary people. You should meet them.