Sustainable Leather?
Rachel Sleight is a teacher of Product Design and just founded her brand ‘Burnbank’, which mainly concentrates on high quality,...
To exist is to change...
Katty Barac is a professional designer, or more specific a designer for lightning. But until she figured that out, she had go on circles,...
Design through time
Nicholas Oddy took us on a journey through time, analyzing some of the most extraordinary pieces of engineering and design in regard to,...
Cycle and recycle
Robert McCaffrey designs shoes. Innovative and classic shoes which rotate around one topic, one lifestyle – bicycles! I want to...
Automated Income?
Driverless Cars, learning robots, AI…it makes us wonder what we humans are going to do in the future. One recent study by academics at...
Fail Better
Matt Marais told us about his story from a Product Design Engineer graduate to a founder of the design firm Scratch Ideas Ltd., about the...
Design – A view from India
I attended two lectures about design in India in the last month. Both very different, but combined I feel I might understand Indian...
Approximately Successfully
10 minutes and you’ll know if a project or product is feasible. A bold comment, but Ben Craven explained us the principles of approximate...
Plastic Plastic - A field trip to PM - Plastic Mouldings Limited
Our Product Design Engineering class visited the factories of PM – Plastic Mouldings Limited – in Irvine, Scotland. Since 1963 they...
Marc Newson
“Marc Newson designs everything!” That’s how the BBC documentary ‘Marc Newson – Urban Spaceman’ described the Australian designer who...
