Last week we attended the opening of the Mercury Centre, a materials research facility at the University of Sheffield. The facilities available included metal injection moulding machines used to create small complex components, an electron beam welding machine used to weld thick sections of materials with high precision and the
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Mar 22, 2012 | Post by: Dan No Comments
The business of design – Leeds Metropolitan University
Yesterday I gave a talk to students at Leeds Metropolitan University keen to know what it takes to start a design business when they leave their studies. Other themes included sustainability in design and the skills required as a design professional. Attendees included third year Product Design students as well
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Mar 22, 2012 | Post by: Dan No Comments
Enterprising ideas
This striking building is home to the University of Sheffield Enterprise, part of Sheffield University and designed to bring people together to make ideas happen. I was asked to attend an event here last night as a judge on a panel, to choose a winner from three completely new products/service
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Dec 16, 2011 | Post by: Dan No Comments
Design teaching
I’ve been teaching young product designers at Sheffield Hallam Uni for a few years now, working on developing design skills such as illustration, design presentation, photo editing, design sketching and model making to name a few areas. The stuff I really like to get stuck into is the model making
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Nov 28, 2011 | Post by: Dan No Comments
More collaboration between Industrial Designers and Engineers needed
I recently stumbled across this article written by the Chairman of BDI (British Design Innovation), it contains some thoughts that highlight the importance of collaboration between Industrial Designers and Engineers and we couldn’t agree more… The chairman of British Design Innovation (BDI), the national representative organisation of the Industrial Design
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Nov 28, 2011 | Post by: Dan No Comments
Frontline Medicine
Frontline Medicine is a two part series of documentaries exploring the link between war and medical research. The first documentary looks at how medics in Afghanistan have achieved the highest survival rates in the history of warfare. One part explains how a simple tourniquet band has been designed for use
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Aug 11, 2011 | Post by: Dan No Comments
Roles in Product Development
In the past year many of our projects have involved liaising with industry specialists who have specific skills in niche areas, for example material science or electronics. The demands of technical projects means that we have had to adopt a collaborative approach, project managing the final design whilst ensuring each
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