The Hold-N-One® Golf Bag Holder is the first fully self-generated and self-funded project by The Other Edge Design Studio based in Raleigh, NC.  After being inspired by a devastating mishap with a bag full of clubs in Donald's (founder of The Other Edge) garage, we decided to take the plunge and do something about it. The result was the Hold-N-One® which was designed (product, graphics and packaging), patented and manufactured by The Other Edge.

The Other Edge Design Studio, a firm history
Donald Corey, a member of the Industrial Designers Society of America and Assistant Professor of Industrial Design at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, started his own high-end
custom furniture company in 1996 after receiving his Masters degree from North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C. His award-winning custom designs and furniture series were sold in galleries throughout the Southeast. After five years of primarily working in steel and wood, Corey decided to change the direction of his work to create more massproduced consumer items. He partnered with interior designer Vanese Clough, and together they launched The Other Edge, Inc. in 2002.

Working for such clients as Commonwealth Aluminum, Global Pet Products and MeldUSA, The Other Edge soon gained a reputation for creating innovative design solutions for their customers' needs. When time allowed, Corey and Clough worked on their own designs. The first utility patent Corey received was for Hold-NOne®, a golf bag holder. This signified a decided shift in the company's focus.

"It is rare that a design firm does all of the activities for a client," Corey noted. "A firm may design an object and pass it off to engineering, or marketing, but having the whole experience, including financial and
budget implications, will make us much better designers for our clients."

In addition to Hold-N-One®, The Other Edge is ready to roll out a furniture line, which debuted at ICFF in New York in 2005."We're working with the manufacturer to mass produce a bent bamboo piece of furniture," he said, pointing out that it is nothing like the inexpensive bamboo furniture that you might currently be familiar with. "It's something no one has really ever done in mass production before, so it's requiring some trial and error testing. But it's looking great." Bamboo is the ultimate sustainable material, Corey pointed out, because it has a sevenyear harvest cycle during which the roots of the plant are not destroyed. So it immediately grows back to be reharvested. Corey said The Other Edge is proud to be on the forefront of using this environmentally sensitive material.

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