fast facts

  • Ignition is a design and product development company.
  • Ignition was founded by Douglas Laube in 1985 as Douglas Laube Industrial Design.
  • The company name was changed to Ignition in 1994 to reflect expanded services.
  • Ignition is headquartered in the Dallas suburb of Plano, Texas. We have additional offices in Taipei, Taiwan, and Harbor City, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
  • Our Dallas headquarters occupies an award winning 27,000 square-foot, custom-designed facility in the middle of the North Texas Research and Technology Corridor.
  • Ignition has 50 employees, 40 in the US and 10 in Asia.
  • Our design and product development team includes five disciplines: User Research, Industrial Design, Mechanical Engineering, Prototyping and Manufacturing Support.
  • Ignition holds 48 design patents. The company’s first was secured in 1992, for NEC’s Combined Mobile Cellular Telephone Handset and Transporter.
  • Ignition has earned dozens of design awards, including the Industrial Design Excellence Award (IDEA), CES Best of Innovations, Excellence in Design Award, Design of the Decade Award and more.
  • Ignition’s client list includes some of the world’s largest companies and most innovative start-ups, including Adams Golf, Cisco Systems, Fossil, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, Leapfrog, Motorola, NEC, Peterbilt, Porter-Cable, RadioShack, Sunbeam, Texas Instruments, Uniden and many more.
  • Ignition has helped clients successfully bring more than 1,000 products to market during our 20-year history.