Notes from the studio

News, insights, and how-tos from our team

quick guides

10 years reflection on starting and running a design studio in NYC

Ten Years of Spitfire Industry: Notes on Running an Independent Design Studio

Inside NYCxDesign 2026: Our Full Rundown of New York's Design Week

April at Spitfire Industry

Invention Vampires: the strange world of innovation farms

Designing a Product Family: How We Build Cohesive Design Languages

New Product Launch: The Viking Hybrid Cold Plunge

What you’re paying for when you hire a design studio

What To Do When You Have A Great Idea - A Q&A For Creative People

NYCxDesign 2025 Recap — A Surprising, Chaotic Sprint

Another note about manufacturing in 2025

A note about tariffs

Beyond the Visual: A Storytelling Workshop Series for Designers

Designing Essential Eye Care Products for Blinkjoy

MotivatEM gets a Good Design Award!

2024 Product Launches of the year

Keeper’s Hive Shatters Indiegogo Goals with Innovative Product Design

Spitfire Industry moves to new office in Gowanus

The tiniest metro card machine for New York Design Week

Nordic Wave Viking - Vertical Cold Plunge Design in the press

Spitfire selected for the IDA awards

IDA awards 2022

Spitfire on the Consumer Electronics Show Innovation Awards 2023 judging panel

Cool stuff at the CES Innovation Awards

Spitfire designed copper rain chains for Green Things

NEW PRODUCT ALERT! - Rain Chains

Spitfire designed heirloom quality toys for Toymint

NEW PRODUCT ALERT FOR TOYMINT!

Mygo wins a Good Design Award

Mygo wins a Good Design Award!

Spitfire inktober drawings

I is for Inktober

Core 77 article on 20 Woman-led Industrial Design & Innovation Firms

We were on Core 77!

Fluolabs is partnering with a Global Life Sciences Company

Fluolabs is partnering with a Global Life Sciences Company

Staff plunger in the press

Staff plunger in the press

Fluo is on Start Engine

Fluo is on Start Engine

Smile plunger design for Staff

New Product Alert for Staff!

New product launch at CES 2021

New product launch at CES 2021!

2020 in Design

2020 in Design

Deep thoughts on Pantone Colors

Deep thoughts on Pantone Colors

How working as an industrial designer taught me to let go of individual things

More where that came from: how working as a designer taught me to let go of individual things.

Spitfire’s founder and design head, Isis Shiffer was on the product design jury for d&ad awards this year

Judging the D&AD awards

New York plastic bag ban

Let's talk plastic : New York plastic bag ban

Spitfire Industry designed a beautiful new sunlamp for Circadian Optics called Leo

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL SUN LAMP

New product alert! ‘Bloom’ fruit bowl for Escu

New product alert! ‘Bloom’ fruit bowl for Escu

We worked with Blackwelder Coffee Roasters to refresh their logo, redesign their packaging and create a clean, user friendly website

Packaging Design for a New Coffee Brand

Colorado Tripod Company's successful Kickstarter

Colorado Tripod Company's successful Kickstarter!

Read Isis Shiffer's article in Dyson ON about wrong thinking and right design!

We have an article in Dyson ON!

Review of our ‘Luxy’ lamp for Circadian Optics

Review of our ‘Luxy’ lamp for Circadian Optics

New Product Alert - All Hung Up Organizer

New Product Alert - All Hung Up Organizer

Nest&Nook Wave cheese board, designed by Spitfire Industry

NEW PRODUCT ALERT! ‘WAVE’ CHEESE BOARD FOR NEST&NOOK.

Spitfire’s founder and design head, Isis Shiffer, featured in the show 'The Next Great Package: Design for Tech'

We were in a video!

Spitfire Industry provided packaging design, illustration and environmental consulting for Gac

Gac: Drinkable Skin and Vision Care (Successful Indiegogo campaign)

We entered the BetterBin competition to create a new vision for the ubiquitous metal mesh can

We’re doing a competition! Thanks for the shoutout, AM New York.

An interview with Isis by Clever Tech Digest

3D Printers, and Laser Cutters, and CAD. An Interview with isis Shiffer of Spitfire Industry