Dollight
dolop
2025

Your Product Is One Decision Away From Market Breakthrough

We help ambitious companies turn good products into market darlings. Once we're done, your biggest challenge won't be finding customers—it'll be managing the demand you've created.

For companies ready for something official.

The Moment Everything Changes


What Happens When Your Product Actually Breaks Through

Imagine walking into a meeting where buyers are asking for YOUR product by name. Where your biggest challenge becomes production capacity, not customer acquisition. Where competitors start copying your approach instead of the other way around.


This isn't wishful thinking. It's Tuesday for our clients.

The companies working with us right now are experiencing:

  • Waiting lists for their products

  • Press coverage they didn't pay for

  • Competitors scrambling to catch up

Island Pro
Island
2025

Your own digital oasis – at home

Why Most Products Fail (And How We Fix It)


The Truth About Product Success

Here's what nobody tells you: 95% of product failures aren't due to bad ideas. They're due to invisible design that gets lost in market noise.

Our secret? We study your product category until we find what everyone else is overlooking: the neglected opportunities, the visual languages that haven't been borrowed yet, the experiences that could create unexpected excitement.

Then we create that delicate balance: Products talk-worthy enough to become their own advertisement, yet refined enough to live beautifully in any environment for years to come.

The result? Your product doesn't just look different—it looks inevitable.

Island Router
Island
2023

Something clever here and why you should like it

Services That Create Market Darlings


Industrial Design

Products That Redefine Categories | Consumer electronics, furniture, lighting, and tools that don't just solve problems—they become the benchmark everyone else tries to match.

Packaging Design

Identities That Command Premium Pricing | Naming, strategy, logos, and design systems that position you as the premium choice. Your customers won't just choose you, they'll pay more for the privilege.

Branding & Visual Identity

Shelf Presence That Drives Sales | Spirits, wine, and retail packaging that makes buyers stop mid-stride. Your product becomes the one they reach for first, every single time.

Product & Brand Strategy

Market Intelligence That Creates Markets | Research and positioning that doesn't just find opportunities—it creates them. We help you see what your competitors are missing.

ME-1 
MT-1 Series
2022

The OUO Advantage


When You Need Results That Are Official

Proven Track Record Red Dot, iF, Cannes Lions, Communication Arts. These aren't just awards—they're proof that what we do works, repeatedly.

Global Perspective From San Diego to Tokyo to London, I understand what makes products resonate across different cultures and markets.

Strategic Thinking Led by Michael Kritzer, with experience at agencies known for breakthrough creative work. We don't just execute: we strategize for market impact.

Partnership Approach You're not hiring a vendor—you're gaining a partner who's obsessed with your success. OUO isn't looking for one-and-done projects. I want to grow with my clients and their evolving needs.

Work


ME-1

Organized & tidy magnetic power to the people

Dollights

Bright, fresh, and made just for you lighting

Island Router

Make the internet your private resort

Island Pro

Bringing paradise to the server rack

Angels Envy Bottle

A forgotten classic, reborn

Bubbe Bottle

Perfect milk, just the way they like it

Sake Dolls

Useful sculpture for drinking

Epoch Brand & Label

Old & new — with a twist

The Strategic Design Process


From Concept to Market Breakthrough

Discovery & Opportunity Mining We dive deep into your product category, studying what everyone else is doing—and more importantly, what they're not doing. We identify overlooked opportunities and unexpected visual languages that could transform your market position.

Design for Manufacturing & Production We guide your design through the complexities of production, ensuring that award-worthy concepts become market-ready realities. Your vision maintains its integrity from sketch to shelf.

Ongoing Partnership OUO doesn't believe in one-and-done relationships. As your business evolves and grows, I'm here to help you tackle new challenges, expand into new markets, and continue building on your success.

Strategic Design & Development We create solutions that walk the perfect line: exciting enough to generate conversation, refined enough to age gracefully. This is where your product becomes its own advertisement without sacrificing timeless appeal.

Launch & Market Impact We help you introduce your transformed product to a market that's been waiting for exactly this kind of fresh thinking. The moment when strategy becomes sales.

The Result: You're not just competing: you're the one everyone's talking about.

Sake Dolls
OTOTI
2020

A Word About Our Name


Official Use Only: Handle With Care

We didn't choose this name by accident. Just like the classified documents that bear this stamp, our work is reserved for those who are ready to handle what comes next.

So before we work together, ask yourself: Are you prepared for your product to become the talk of your industry? Because once we're done, there's no going back to being quietly overlooked.

Consider this your official notice.

Fair warning: The products we create tend to generate attention. Press coverage you didn't pay for. Competitors studying your every move. Customers who become evangelists. Industry buzz that follows you to conferences.

Angel's Envy
2012

Ready for Market Attention?


Stop Being an Option. Become THE Option

Book a Strategy Assessment and discover exactly how to make your product impossible to ignore. We'll analyze your market position, identify your breakthrough potential, and show you the path to becoming the market darling.

Get Your Market Breakthrough Strategy: Book Your Strategy Session and discover exactly how to make your product the one everyone else tries to emulate.

The only question is: will you be the one everyone's talking about, or the one trying to catch up?

This isn't just about one project—it's about building a partnership that grows with your ambitions.