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Minimal + Beautiful Utility Knife now on Kickstarter

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The Quadrato Utility Knife is CNC machined brass. Quadrato Retractable Knife By Jason Morris - Designer I've been designing products as a consulting industrial designer for about 20 years now. And here’s what I’ve learned: many good designs never make it to the market. And even if a good design does gets through; a company has to guess how many hundreds of thousands to manufacture, with the hope that they will sell them all. But today, two things have changed the whole system. One is crowdfunding, like Kickstarter , allowing you to decide which designs you want to support. Second is affordable rapid prototyping manufacturing. Where I can get parts made, with CNC or 3D printing in low quantities, on demand, in just a few weeks. So from the designer, to the customer, directly. No massive tooling costs, no middle-managers mucking things up, and no over-production.  Useful for daily tasks The common retractable utility knife is very useful, you probably have one...