-: I'm Brandi McGuyer.
I'm the co-owner of Carter McGuyer Design Group
and a retail clothing store, Branded.
We're talking industrial design, which is very unique
and we are one of two in the state of Alabama.
We do product design,
which we start from an ideation, from a sketch
and we take it to prototyping
all the way to manufacturing,
packaging and into store shelves.
If you were to go to Crate and Barrel's website
my husband is actually a feature designer
on their website
and we were very fortunate enough
to work with them and do a Carter McGuyer kitchen.
We did a really good product for Microplane
which is known for their graders.
We did a spiral cutter
and it sold millions.
It was a great product.
That's one of my favorites
because we're hired to help people
with their bottom line.
If our products don't sell,
we don't get rehired.
Because of the marketing background
that I have and the design background my husband has,
we can go and tell you this is a great retail price,
you need to be at this price,
this is great for packaging
and this is what you need to sell,
this is the whole package.
We have a kickoff meeting
and we go over their project parameters
and then we kind of go back as a group,
as a company and lay out our plan
and we itemize like when can this be done,
what dates can we hit
and then we give them a timeline back,
so sometimes we can get things done in nine months,
sometimes it needs to take 12 months,
sometimes it may take 24.
It depends on how many items
that we're doing, it depends on Chinese New Year,
it depends on if they're getting it manufactured
in the US, Mexico, a lot of things
come into play when you're looking at a timeline.
I do most of the critical project management,
so I'm organizing
and giving proposals,
timelines and like helping steer things, just organization
is really what I do.
I fight fires all day long, put out fires.
He's more of the the creative
and I'm more of the business,
it's the yin and the yang for the company.