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ABC Radio Newcastle works through the alphabet looking at a different profession each week. This week was I for Industrial Designer; the ABC Morning Programs Paul Turton spoke to our lead designer Jon Pryer. Paul “So what is industrial design” Jon “That’s THE question……….  an industrial designer provides the contact surfaces between the mechanics of a product and the user 

An increasing number of our smaller and individual clients are using crowd funding to get their ideas from a design into production, production usually being the most expensive bit of the exercise. So what is crowd funding? Crowd funding is an online tool for exposing your design to a large number of potential investors, and raising the capital to implement it from a large number of low risk modest investors rather t

Innovators are often wary of disclosing their ideas or intellectual property (IP) to people who can develop them further for fear of having them “stolen” – this is where a nondisclosure or confidentiality agreement is useful. Nondisclosure agreements can be “one – way”; where only one party discloses confidential information or “mutual”; if both parties wish their discl

World Industrial Design Day is observed annually on 29 June. First declared in 2007 on the 50th anniversary of the International Congress of Societries of Industrial Design, World Industrial Design Day was established with the aim of promoting awareness of the profession of industrial design and  highlighting the impact of industrial design on economic, social, cultural and environmental quality of life.

Plastic parts made by rotational moulding are typically on the large and very large end of plastic products, such as the water tanks we designed for Formit Services.  The moulding process is slow so it is good for moderate volume production and tooling relative to the size of the part is quite cheap. Rotationally moulded parts, being typically large and bulky to ship, are one of the areas of manufacturing where local

The world’s longest-serving car goes out of production The Land Rover Defender, the Land Rover is going out of production in 2015. Since 1948 Land Rover has offered  new car buyers what is now the world’s oldest vehicle (depending on specification it’s not technically a car). The design for the original Land Rover vehicle was started in 1947 by Maurice Wilks, chief designer at Rover,  on his farm on the i

We found this Lego model of our police prisoner transport design posted on a Lego builder forum recently – awesome work by Criga88 Follow Griga88’s work here : http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=96193 More than 400 billion Lego bricks have been produced since 1958. There are about 62 Lego bricks per person of the Earth’s population. Check out the video below to see how that happened

Research by Beverly Nielsen of Birmingham University entitled “Looking for growth, sack the economists and hire a designer” has shown that companies that put design driven innovation at the heart of their strategy significantly out perform the economy. Read the full article here

One of the most important decisions in the development of a new product is what processes should be used in its manufacture. Choice of process will have dramatic effects upon the form and structure of the product If you ask a carpenter to design a chair for you it will be made of wood and if you ask a metal fabricator it’s a fair bet it will be made of metal, ask an industrial designer and it’s a fair bet they will a

We have won a few awards for our design work and we have even designed and built a few awards for others. Jon recently oversaw the design and production of the 2014 Hunter TAFE Awards by design students Sharna, Sam and Pete – well done guys. The awards utilised a unique casting process that was a challenge for all involved, including the foundry; for each award recycled aluminium was cast around a block of recl