Multidisciplinary Design · San Diego

Design,
Drafted Properly.

XSD MGMT, LLC is a design studio that works the way a drafting table works — measured, deliberate, and unafraid of precision. Eleven disciplines, one sheet of paper: interiors, industrial objects, graphics, fashion, furniture, packaging, jewelry, lighting, textiles, commercial art, and medical illustration.

The Disciplines

Eleven Practices, One Standard.

Each discipline is a numbered practice with its own method — collected on the disciplines sheet, summarized here.

01

Interior Design

Residential and commercial interior environments — space planning, material palettes, and the finish schedules that make drawings buildable.

Space Planning · Materials · Finishes
02

Industrial Design

Product and object design from concept sketch to production specification — form, ergonomics, and manufacturability in one hand.

Products · Objects · Production Spec
03

Graphic Design

Identity systems, editorial layouts, and visual language — typography and composition with a commercial purpose.

Identity · Editorial · Typography
04

Fashion & Textile

Fashion design and textile design — silhouette, fabric development, surface pattern, and the technical drawings behind both.

Garment · Surface · Technical
05

Furniture & Lighting

Furniture design and lighting design — objects that occupy space and the instruments that define how that space is seen.

Furniture · Luminaires · Prototypes
06

Packaging & Jewelry

Packaging design from structure to shelf presence, and jewelry design from rendering to bench-ready specification.

Structure · Shelf · Bench

Full disciplines sheet — including commercial art & medical illustration →

The Method

How A Brief Becomes A Drawing.

i.

Brief & Measure

Every engagement opens with a written brief — the object, the constraint, the budget, the deadline. We measure before we draw, and we say so when a brief needs fixing.

ii.

Specimen & Study

Concept studies move through thumbnails, material studies, and formal prototypes. Clients see the rejected directions too — the reasoning is part of the deliverable.

iii.

Draft & Detail

Approved directions are drafted to specification: dimensions, tolerances, materials, finishes, and production notes — documents a fabricator or printer can execute without a follow-up call.

iv.

Review & Release

Final review against the original brief, then release — production files, rights assignments, and archived plates. What we drew is what gets made.

The Studio

Coastal Light, Precise Work.

XSD MGMT works from Cass Street in San Diego — close enough to the Pacific for the light, close enough to the border for the manufacturing corridor that makes prototypes fast.

The studio serves private clients, brands, manufacturers, medical publishers, and developers — anyone who needs a thing designed rather than decorated.

Read The Process Sheet →

EntityXSD MGMT, LLC
Studio4640 Cass St
San Diego, CA 92109
Disciplines11 design practices
OutputDrawings · Specs · Rights
Sheet Figures
11
Design disciplines in-house
4.
Stage method, brief to release
1.
Studio — Cass St, San Diego
CA
Founded & headquartered

"Decoration is what happens when nobody measured. Design is what happens when somebody did."

XSD MGMT · Studio Note
Open A File

Put It On Paper.

Send the brief — the object, the constraint, the deadline. We respond with a scoped proposal and a named designer.

Start A Brief