Hi, we are X897 Studio.
We design products you will use and love – from the first sketch to the production line. Behind the studio are more than fifteen years of product design experience: running shoes and football boots at adidas, award-winning furniture, apps and brands for tech teams.
We work from Oeiras, on the coast just outside Lisbon, and love sport – surfing most of all. We rarely say no to an espresso and a pastel de nata.
Founder
Maurice Taylor
Maurice is an industrial designer with over fifteen years in product design. He spent ten years at adidas designing for Y-3, running and football, most recently leading a team of designers on Copa and Predator, and was Head of Design at Staking Facilities. As Chief Design Officer of X897 Furniture he designed the PL-1 pendant light, released in 2021 and winner of the A’ Design Award in Silver and the ICONIC Award.
- 2026 – nowFounder, X897 Studio
- 2020 – 2025Chief Design Officer, X897 Furniture
- 2022 – 2025Head of Design, Staking Facilities
- 2019 – 2020Co-Founder, CreatorSparks
- 2015 – 2018Team Lead Footwear Design Spring Summer Football, adidas
- 2009 – 2015Senior Footwear Designer Running, adidas
- 2008 – 2009Technical Manager Y-3 / SLVR, adidas
- 2018TEDx speaker, Erasmus University Rotterdam – “Design your future”
- EducationDiplom in Industrial Design, Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences
Services
Physical products
Footwear · Consumer products · Household appliances · Medical devices · Investment goods · Lighting and furniture · 3D-printed products
- Product and industrial design
- Footwear design, performance and lifestyle
- Colour, material and finish
- CAD and design for manufacture, from prototype to series production
- Design for 3D printing
- Prototyping in the studio
- Photoreal visualisation and animation
Digital products
Apps · Websites · Dashboards and data tools · Brands
- App and interface design
- Web design
- Brand identity
- Clickable prototypes
- Design systems and developer handover
Direction and advice
- Creative direction
- Setting up and leading design teams
- Design advice for founders and product teams
Where to get the files
- MakerWorld All published files, free to download
How we work
We start with the people who will use it.
After the Double Diamond by the Design Council
Work with the studio
We bring the craft of physical product design together with the speed of digital. Based in Oeiras, Lisbon, working with clients everywhere. Every project starts with a 30-minute call.
Tell the studio what you are building. A short description and a sketch or photo, if you have one, is enough to start.
Also for licensing an existing design, or questions about a file you downloaded.