Working Hard is the design studio of David Zacher and Amanda Sim.
We create our own products and selectively consult for companies on fun and exciting projects.
Our design studio is a small outfit because we like having our hands in the mud from the ground up. Experimenting, iterating, and refining is at the heart of our process. We revel in agonizing over details and keeping our design studio small means we can control the quality of each product that leaves our little shop.
We like to design quotidian products, but believe everyday objects can be delightful and unconventional. We hope you enjoy Working Hard products as much as we enjoy designing and getting them into your hands.
To peek behind the curtain of our design studio, follow us on Instagram: @workinghardco
Photo Credit: Hugo Ahlberg
David is an Industrial Designer.
He is committed to highly manufacturable products and is always looking for ways to make products and packaging more sustainable through materials, manufacturing processes, and object longevity.
David’s work has been shown at The Design Museum in London and The British Museum; and has been featured in FastCo, Core77, Deezen, Icon Magazine, and NPR. His design work has won Red Dot, and iF design awards. David holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology from George Washington University and a Masters of Industrial Design from the Rhode Island School of Design.
david@work-work-work.com
Did you know? David answered the siren call of design from the U.S. House of Representatives, Natural Resources Committee in Washington, D.C where he was legislative staff. David is also a magician in the kitchen and a fix-it whisperer. His one fault is his out of control tool collecting, which is perpetually on the verge of unmanageable. He vows he’s working on it but you know how that goes.
Photo Credit: Hugo Ahlberg
Amanda is a Visual Designer.
Her appetite for design is voracious and prolific in range of media. Her visual design work runs the full gamut from the highly tangible to the hyper digital. Amanda has worked at IDEO, Chronicle Books, Strava, and Google.
Amanda’s work has been featured at The Design Museum in London, on the Awwwards blog, in The Best Designs blog, and in the Graphis Annual. She holds a BFA from Wesleyan University and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.
amanda@work-work-work.com
Did you know? Amanda’s super deluxe type-A personality is her best and worst trait. She is hyper organized, and will maximize the beegeesuz out of any project and find clarity and structure like a bloodhound. Unfortunately, this also means she’ll clean up behind you as you’re working so that you have to keep taking the same tools out over and over and over and over, ad infinitum.
Selected clients
IDEO
Strava
Kaya Climb
Sonder
Fyrn
Bloom Science
Eone Timepieces
Services
Industrial Design
Packaging
Manufacturing Coordination
Branding & Visual Identity
UI / UX
Posters & Print
Visual Systems
Illustration
Brand Marketing
Strategy
Presentation Design
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