Good luck to the students selected to study overseas for a period with our exchange partners in Lund, Sweden.
I’ve just returned from a trip to their impressive Design Centre; I wish I could have spent longer there!
Have a great trip guys.
Richard Morris, Course Leader.
Last night we organised an event at nightclub Audio to raise money for our upcoming 2013 exhibitions.
We’re glad to announce that we raised £700, and put on a great night.
Repeating this event a few times is something we’re thinking about doing so come along again and help us raise money for an impressive exhibition!
Second year University of Brighton Product Design students Adam Hargrave, Barnee Lloyd, Danny Hughes and Raul Jimenez have won a design competition held by global safety company FHOSS alongside with Brighton and Hove City Council.
They were working with self-illuminating fabric to help increase visibility of pedestrians and cyclists around roads at night time.
The group designed a reversible reflective jacket which can switch to plain or cycling mode, the latter being the side of the jacket with reflective materials added on it. It also has light strips running along the arms to use as indicators. Their design won Fhoss’ £1000 competition which particularly aimed towards the younger generation’s safety on the roads. This is a great solution due to its ability to offer a plain jacket mode as well as the high visibility mode, as most high-vis clothing is rather hideous and not attractive to the younger target market.
Brighton and Hove is known for having a cyclist and pedestrian safety problem and was named last year as the most dangerous city for cyclists and pedestrians.
The council has worked with our design studio on projects before to help make their streets safer. In 2011 they worked with Emily Brooke in the early stages of her Blaze bike light, which has since gone under a lot of development and recently been launched on kickstarter.com.
Brighton Product Lab
Emily Brooke, a Brighton Product Design graduate from 2011, has recently launched her Blaze bike light onto kickstarter.com.
The bike light features a super bright LED that projects the symbol of a bike down onto the road ahead of the cyclist. This alerts road users ahead of the cyclist of their presence, helping to prevent vehicles turning across the cyclist’s path making them more visible and more safe.
She has also been featured in an article in the Daily Mail.
Check out her appeal on kickstarter.com, and her charming promotional video. This really is a great project, so help her along the way if you can.
Good luck Emily!
Brighton Product Lab