Create Independently.
Grow Together.
S3 works with independent product designers who understand sport, think creatively, and want to turn ideas into products with real market potential.
Your Ideas.
Your Independence.
Joining the S3 Designer Network doesn't mean becoming an S3 employee or changing how you operate.
Continue building your own practice, pursuing your own work and developing your own ideas. S3 provides an additional path for selected sports product concepts to move into development, production and the market.
Stay Independent.
Continue operating your own design practice and pursuing your own clients and projects.
Create With Freedom.
Explore original concepts, solve problems and develop ideas around your expertise.
Choose What You Bring.
Decide which concepts you want to bring to S3 for consideration and potential development.
Create for the way athletes actually use products.
Sports products have to perform in demanding conditions. Equipment gets carried, dropped, packed, washed, stretched and used repeatedly. Materials, construction and seemingly small details can have a significant impact on performance and experience.
The goal isn't simply to design something different. It's to design something worth manufacturing.
Take an idea beyond the design.
Turning a strong concept into a viable product requires more than design. S3 provides access to the development, validation, manufacturing and commercial capabilities needed to take promising ideas further.
- Creative thinking
- Original product concepts
- Design expertise
- Understanding of athletes and sport
- New approaches to product problems
- Product Intelligence
- Development support
- Product Lab validation
- Manufacturing expertise
- Pathways to Market
From idea to market.
Promising concepts move through a structured process that combines the designer's creativity with S3's product development, validation and manufacturing capabilities.
Create
Develop an original concept around a product problem.
Present
Bring the concept to S3 for review and consideration.
Develop
Refine the design, materials, and specifications.
Validate
Evaluate samples and gather feedback where appropriate.
Commercialize
Move approved products into production and the market.
Earn
Participate through royalties under the product agreement.
Create value.
Participate in it.
Our network gives designers the opportunity to participate in the success of the products they create. For qualifying designer-originated products, an agreed royalty provides continuing income as the product is commercialized.
Build a product once.
Participate as it grows.
Royalty terms, ownership and commercial rights are established in the product agreement before moving to next steps.
Creative minds.
Sports focus.
We're interested in designers who are curious about how athletes use products and how they could work better.
Sports-industry experience is valuable, but so is firsthand understanding of a sport, athlete or product problem. What matters is the ability to combine creativity, practical thinking and an understanding of use.
What would you create?
If you understand sport and have ideas worth exploring, we'd like to hear from you.