Space is big. Really big. And it has a foamy edge – who knew that? Prof Lucie Green clearly does, and outlined some of the difficulties in designing equipment for the forthcoming Solar Explorerer mission at a talk last week. (http://luciegreen.com/). If you ever doubted that design thinking and space exploration were linked, try this; http://www.core77.com/posts/41855/Is-Design-Thinking-Rocket-Science
Thanks to Prof. Fred Maillardet for his guest talk this week on design for people with disabilities. More information here on REMAP – http://www.remap.org.uk/
The annual Made in Brighton event is approaching, and whilst it’s more craft than Product focussed, its interesting to see the contemporary and creative work of local artists. Good for Christmas shopping too. http://www.brighton-made.co.uk/
Just seen this entry on kickstarter from recent graduate Louie Amphlett. Here is the link if you want to give Louie some support – https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/louieamphlett/echo-identification-tags
The Design and Technology Asociation (https://www.data.org.uk/ )have launched a Designed and Made in Britain campaign, showcasing the important role of Design and Technology in Britain. The RSA are spearheading a campaign through thisto get the government to raise the DT profile (https://www.thersa.org/discover/publications-and-articles/rsa-blogs/2015/10/design-or-decline-an-open-letter-to-nicky-morgan/).
Product Tank is an interesting design forum that is worth looking at (http://www.meetup.com/ProductTank-Brighton/), part of the mind-the-product movement (http://www.mindtheproduct.com/). Maybe digitally orientated, but lots of product crossover.
Living in a shipping container might not sound ideal, but careful and creative design can make this more attractive as shown by the container city in London (cred. Daily Mail) and the internal design for Brightons 36 unit container city known as RIchardsons Yar (cred Guardian). (http://www.bht.org.uk/?s=container)
Happy birthday Design Council, 70 years old this year (http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/). You can search on-line the Design Council archives held at the university, or simply enjoy the flickr photostream (https://www.flickr.com/photos/35368374@N04/)
Recent graduates Joe Wood and Marcus Burns undertook much design consultancy work in the their final year as part of the ZEST design collective. Now putting that experience and their design skills to work supporting the Triathlon and Sport Fitness Show for Sept 2016 – http://www.eventindustrynews.co.uk/meetings-incentivetravel-conference-exhibitions-news/vivid-event-group-founder-launches-the-brighton-and-hove-triathlon-and-sport-and-fitness-show/
Ex-undergraduate, and now PhD student, Maddy Conaghan and I talked at the National Road Safety Conference 2014 at the Grand Hotel in Brighton this afternoon. Great conference – lively and lots of atmosphere. Lots of interest in Maddy’s work around driver cognitive overload too.