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Gamil Design Inc. is a product and graphic design company located in Raleigh, North Carolina. It is best known for the fact that many users of Gmail have mistyped and arrived at the company's web site. Gamil also designs products for customers around the world, most of them sports-related. ==About the company== Gamil Design began in 1995. Aly Khalifa gave the company his middle name,〔Ryan Teague Beckwith, "Typo is Web page's windfall: Traffic looking for e-mail service Gmail winds up at Gamil", ''News & Observer'', Dec. 16, 2006.〕 Arabic for "handsome", pronounced gah-meel.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Raleigh-Durham Business Directory )〕 Khalifa's wife Beth joined the company in 1999 shortly after the couple married.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Members of the Box )〕 Aly Khalifa, as a product designer, travels to locations as distant as Asia and Europe to take a product from an idea to something that can be produced. Many of the products are sports-related equipment for major companies. Gamil Design's major product is Teastick, used to infuse loose tea leaves and sold in over 200 stores.〔 The idea came from Third Place Coffeehouse. The device had to be small enough to use for one cup of tea, but capable of enduring rough handling. An area company made a prototype, and suppliers were found. It took several months to find a machinist who could make the actual product, and the Gamil employees had to help make it. But the product sold well, with customers in such locations as New York City and Los Angeles. Finding a manufacturer who could produce a large volume of the product at a low enough price proved difficult. A redesign was tried but did not work as hoped. To make the exact product at the right price, Aly Khalifa had to go to Taiwan, where a friend of his had a bicycle factory that could also make the Teastick. Eventually, it became popular in Canada, Australia, Europe, Japan, Taiwan and Korea.〔 In 2008, Gamila Products, a Gamil Design brand, introduced the copolyester Teastick Gem, made with Eastman Chemical Company Tritan. Copolyester allows heat resistance and durability but covers stainless steel mesh without adhesives. The manufacturing process uses injection molding. The popular Mila Bikini, which Gamila created for Pacific Design in 2006 for iPod and iPod Nanos, included a polyurethane screen protector that the user can see through, a connection system to attach the iPod, and a cover that can be folded into a stand. Another Gamila product, Mila Art Jackets, was introduced as a partner to the Bikini in 2007, also to protect iPods. The art work by Paul Friedrich, Casey Porn, Dale Flattum, Beth Khalifa, Joey Florian and Ben Wilson was intended to promote independent musicians. In 2007, Gamila introduced the Facemod, a candlestick using the Edgar Rubin optical illusion of two people's profiles. Using the latest computer technology, Gamila could create a candlestick from any person's photo.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Brand Fandango VI! )〕 Gamil has worked with Trek Bicycle Corporation for more than five years, designing such items as gloves, water bottles and bottle cages.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Trek Glove Collection )〕 In 2005, Gamil's Trek Batcage bottle cage traveled with Lance Armstrong in the first of three Tours de France. Gamil designed the process for making Vilcek Prize trophies, designed by Sagmeister, Inc. of New York City and given by The Vilcek Foundation to persons born in other countries for notable work in science, arts and humanities.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Vilcek Prize )〕 The Vilcek trophy won a 2006 award for typographic design.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=AIGA Design Archives )〕 Other Gamil work includes the screen print designs for REI Duffel prints.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=REI Duffel Prints )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gamil Design」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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