Comments on: How does one get a job designing bowling balls? http://www.bowlingweblog.com/how-does-one-get-a-job-designing-bowling-balls.php Knock down them pins! Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:15:12 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: koalafamily2 http://www.bowlingweblog.com/how-does-one-get-a-job-designing-bowling-balls.php/comment-page-1#comment-85 koalafamily2 Sun, 17 Aug 2008 12:34:33 +0000 http://www.bowlingweblog.com/how-does-one-get-a-job-designing-bowling-balls.php#comment-85 If you do, try the Brunswick Bowling Viz-A-Ball department. They are the division of Brunswick Bowling that manufacture bowling balls with all over designs ranging from simple smiley faces to NFL logos to Disney characters and designs in between. I'm sure they'd love having artists on board helping to design hip and modern bowling balls for the general public and professionals world wide! Hope this helps! If you do, try the Brunswick Bowling Viz-A-Ball department. They are the division of Brunswick Bowling that manufacture bowling balls with all over designs ranging from simple smiley faces to NFL logos to Disney characters and designs in between.

I’m sure they’d love having artists on board helping to design hip and modern bowling balls for the general public and professionals world wide! Hope this helps!

]]> By: Ruth51 http://www.bowlingweblog.com/how-does-one-get-a-job-designing-bowling-balls.php/comment-page-1#comment-84 Ruth51 Sun, 17 Aug 2008 08:33:54 +0000 http://www.bowlingweblog.com/how-does-one-get-a-job-designing-bowling-balls.php#comment-84 Hi! Since about 1993, bowling ball manufacturers have been using computerized design software to generate frequent improvements in core design. Designs have become so sophisticated that even for one model of ball, a different core design may be used for different ball weights (e.g., one for 12-and 13-pound balls, another for 14-pound balls, and a third for 15-and 16-pound balls). A developmental chemist working for a major manufacturer was quoted in a 1996Design News article as saying, "Not long ago, a company could introduce a good ball and keep the market for two years. Now products come out so quickly that you need to have new designs ready all the time." Here are some links to information that will help you. You already have a start in the bowling business, and are learning some design skills, so just keep learning and start making contacts for later: Thanks for asking this question. Best wishes! Hi! Since about 1993, bowling ball manufacturers have been using computerized design software to generate frequent improvements in core design.

Designs have become so sophisticated that even for one model of ball, a different core design may be used for different ball weights (e.g., one for 12-and 13-pound balls, another for 14-pound balls, and a third for 15-and 16-pound balls). A developmental chemist working for a major manufacturer was quoted in a 1996Design News article as saying, “Not long ago, a company could introduce a good ball and keep the market for two years. Now products come out so quickly that you need to have new designs ready all the time.”

Here are some links to information that will help you. You already have a start in the bowling business, and are learning some design skills, so just keep learning and start making contacts for later:

Thanks for asking this question. Best wishes!

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