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MAKE A LEAP OF IMAGINATION WITH 20/20 DESIGN A FUTURE!
Just launched is 2020 DESIGN A FUTURE, a brand new challenge website for 10-19 year-old designers, being run as part of Science Year*. 2020 DESIGN A FUTURE is all about forward thinking - and original design - with 24 challenges that address social and technological issues likely to be of importance in the year 2020. Young people who are... view more... (2002-04-05)
High-tech yacht cruise the world's seas
Marinas and waterways around the world are graced by examples of Finnish design: the 1,800 Swan yachts built since 1966. view more (2005-04-07)
Top Kingston talent set to dazzle at design show
Kingston University design students have been putting the finishing touches to their final-year projects in the build-up to the 2003 Degree Show. The show will run from Tuesday 17 June to Saturday 21 June at the University's Faculty of Art, Design and Music's Knights Park campus. Now in its eighth year, the industry-acclaimed annual event... view more... (2003-06-13)
Pack your own sink on holiday!
The design of a soap container that folds out into a washing bowl has earned a Northumbria University student a top prize in a national competition. Emma McHardy, 23, who is in her final year of study on the Design for Industry course, earned a £1,000 travel award for her design in the RSA awards scheme. Made from an environment-friendly,... view more... (2003-05-15)
University of Leeds opens textile archives to design community
A unique database of historical fabric designs, some dating back more than 100 years, is to be launched at creative textile design exhibition Indigo in Paris. view more (2005-02-23)
Media Invitation: Innovation through people centred design: Lessons for the UK
The DTI's Global Watch Service and the University of Surrey cordially invite you to the "Innovation through people centred design" seminar at the Design Council, Bow Street, London at 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, December 8. Private press interviews with any of the delegates can be arranged between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. if required. view more (2004-11-30)
Scientific design of GM farm-scale evaluations made public
The 40th anniversary issue of the British Ecology Society's Journal of Applied Ecology this month leads with two major papers describing the background, methodology and experimental design of the farm-scale evaluations of genetically modified herbicide-tolerant crops. In laying out the statistical design and methods of data collection for the... view more... (2003-02-07)
Students' Summer Shows: Art & Design Degree Shows in London and the South East
Exciting new work by this year's graduates of The Surrey Institute of Art & Design University College will be revealed at a series of degree shows to be held throughout central London and the South East during June and July 2003. Spanning the disciplines of art, design, media and communication, the shows will launch the careers of the... view more... (2003-06-09)
How do you teach artists and designers to write?
Although highly adept in the visual domain, art and design students often have difficulty putting their ideas down in writing - a theory supported by a recent report* which found that large numbers of art and design students have many of the difficulties with words normally associated with dyslexia. This problem is now being tackled by Writing... view more... (2003-01-22)
Designer's Cutlery Chair Set To Seat Hungry Hoardes
A Kingston University design student could soon be causing a stir amongst discerning diners in Britain's restaurants after creating a chair from used cutlery. Osian Batyka-Williams has welded together more than 150 knives, forks and spoons for his final-year project. He hopes his concept could soon be rolled out to seat patrons in some of the... view more... (2005-05-09)
Neon signs: colorful, better, cheaper
"That is not what I had in mind at all!" Sometimes the graphic designer and customer realize only too late that they have not been talking the same language: namely, on the day the product is presented. Reactions to the result can range from overwhelming enthusiasm to a recognition that it's "back to the drawing board". The... view more... (2002-06-07)
VTT and telecom companies developed new tools for electronic systems design
Better competitive ability for new products view more (2003-11-21)
Young space professionals design the future of space habitation, ESTEC, NL.
The 1st Habitat Design Workshop took place at ESA/ESTEC in Noordwijk, the Netherlands during the first week of April. 30 postgraduate students and young professionals including Biomedics, Architects, Engineers, Scientists and Designers were hot housed together to develop new habitat design concepts for the Moon, Mars and Phobos. The Habitat Design... view more... (2005-04-25)
University of Ulster Students Designing the Future
The University of Ulster will soon be producing the leading designers of the future thanks to a unique Masters course. The MDes in Design Communication is the first of its kind in Northern Ireland. Based in the Centre for Creative and Performing Arts at Magee, it aims to nurture creative industry leaders and enable innovation. Based in a... view more... (2004-02-19)
Mars Explorers Wanted - No Experience Necessary
The University of Kent's Electronics Department is offering school pupils an opportunity to learn about robotics and the design of intelligent systems in a three-day residential summer school to be held from 2-4 August. Walking with Robots will bring together 80 young people on the Canterbury campus to meet and learn from leaders of the robotics... view more... (2003-05-13)
Optimized inhaler mouthpiece design allows for more effective drug delivery
Researchers have developed an optimized mouthpiece design to aid efficient drug delivery to the lungs by reducing the amount of medication wasted as it passes through the mouthpiece of an aerosol inhaler. view more (2009-10-22)
University of Southampton Technology Partnership targets
The University of Southampton is one of the partners in a unique initiative which brings together two of the country's major aerospace companies with three leading engineering research groups. view more (1998-09-18)
Human factors issues in firearms design and training
Guns are tools. Like any other tools, they can be either good or poor at achieving their purpose. In an article published in the Winter 2005 issue of Ergonomics in Design entitled "Human Factors Issues in Firearms Design and Training," the authors look at the design and operation of firearms from a human factors perspective. view more (2006-03-08)
University of Miami engineer designs stretchable electronics with a twist
Jizhou Song, a professor in the University of Miami College of Engineering and his collaborators Professor John Rogers, at the University of Illinois and Professor Yonggang Huang, at Northwestern University have developed a new design for stretchable electronics that can be wrapped around complex shapes, without a reduction in electronic function. view more (2009-01-22)
NASA'S Webb Telescope Sunshield Preliminary Design Review Complete
The tennis court-sized sunshield built by Northrop Grumman for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has completed its preliminary design review at the company's Space Technology facility. view more (2008-03-24)
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