Ben Craven
Week 7 – Using basic maths to prove the viability of your project. This week the famous Ben Craven, tutor of 1st year PDE, gave us a talk all about maths. Ben wanted to explain to us the importance of using maths when designing a…
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Converging Perspectives
Week 6 – Converging perspectives talk with PDE tutor, Stewart Bailey Stewart Bailey gave a very interesting and relevant talk about how we tackle human centered design in the product design engineering world. All the points discussed were very relatable to current projects I am…
Michael Tougher
Week 5 – Design innovations in plastics talk with Michael Tougher Michael Tougher created the product Soundbops which he originally started during a project in his 4th year at University. Soundbops is a musical instrument to help kids learn, play and enjoy music. Currently, I…
Professor David Richards
Week 4 – Systematic approach to consultancy design and engineering projects. This week we had a very interesting talk from Professor David Richards from Frazer-Nash Consultancy. I found it very fascinating to learn about the decisions made when forming a team for a specific project…
Silvia Weidenbach
Week 3 – Combining traditional techniques with the new digital arts Digital design processes are becoming more popular every year. This is an exciting new prospect to begin experimenting with new technologies however, the introduction of these new technologies could overtake traditional creative processes. Silvia…
10 Principles of Good Design
Good Design is innovative The world is constantly evolving with new technologies which offer many opportunites to develop new innovative designs to improve the world we live in. 2. Good Design makes a product useful Optimising usefulness stems from functionality and…
Dieter Rams
Week 2 – Documentary of the life of Dieter Rams and his incredible impact on the design community. Rams secured a trial project with the company Braun in its early days of business. Rams stayed within the braun company until 1997. He made huge milestones…
The demise of skilled and traditional manufacturing
Week 1 – Talk from Craig Whittet In today’s world traditional manufacturing ways are slowly fading. The new modern society we live in has progressed into an easy way of working and living. To produce hand made products requires a lot of hard work and…