A brief history :

• Past : Peter Overath, senior designer, founder and managing director. Was granted his first -of several- patents aged 14  : https://worldwide.espacenet.com/

• Graduated with honours in 1993 at the design & visual arts academy M.A.D.,  Belgium as a BA industrial designer / productdevelopper. Peter immediately starts his own company and is granted a scholarship by The King Baudouin Foundation as the youngest scholar ever.

• Other prizes and competitions include : Melinda & Bill Gates Foundation - Grand Challenges - Design a better contraceptive, General Electrics - GE Jet Engine Bracket using 3D metal-printing, Darpa - rethink the Armoured Personel Carrier, NASA music to wake up by - Seriously, listen to my entry here, Interieur Kortrijk - Honorable mention, Koizumi - International Lighting Design Competition, EFRO scholarship.

• Worked for a variety of commercial and industrial companies: multinationals, small enterprises, nonprofit organizations and private persons. See References

• Employment : up to 6 craftspersons and designers, depending on the workload.

• Turnover (non-disclosed) Euro €/year Pound £/year USD $/year

• January 2000: moved to a location with a more substantial workshop area.

• October 2014 : celebrated 20 years anniversary.

• Present : Industry consultant, product manager, industrial designer, hands-on problem solver, modelmaker & prototypebuilder, inventor, eternal student, coffee aficionado.

• Future : Looking for new challenges in hi-tech environments : automotive, aeronautics, space, ICT, consumer electronics, IOT devices, robotics, artificial intelligence, quantumphysics, sustainable energy, medical, pharmaceutical... Striving to settle a personal benchmark for ethical and user-centered design.