The origin of CROPS
“To harvest crops” --Thinking of crops in the context of agriculture.
Seeds are sown. They take root and grow. With great care and labor the farmers harvest the crops. We assemble new and unique ideas.
We select those that merit our attention and design consideration.
We Innovate, simplify, and craft products that carry our name.
CROPS was founded in 1996 based on this conceptual metaphor.
Our concept
CROPS—Our Ideas
Our crops, in other words our products, are well-developed,
This is due to the efforts of our outstanding designers, technicians and manufacturers.
We want to provide products that amaze and delight the user.
CROPS—Our design
The appearance isn’t anything outrageous.
The essence = simplicity
We strive to apply our design philosophy across our product line. Easy to use designs that exhibit simple, functional beauty.
CROPS—Our craftsmanship
Our team works in close collaboration with local technicians and manufacturers.
Through mutual trust we are able to pursue product designs and follow processes that will yield a quality CROPS product.
Attention to the smallest details and continuous improvement of the design is part of our process.
We’ll produce prototypes based on our initial designs. We’ll field test them to evaluate form, fit, and function.
We’ll refine the design using real world feed-back. Through these iterations,
we can fully develop and proudly deliver CROPS products.
Product development
A simple concept is amust
Material
The best choice of material
is made depending
on each purpose
Product inspection
Each and every product must
go through quality inspection
Production prosess
management
We ask ourselves, "Is it easy
to produce, and if not what
could be the problem?"