Product Development
Film & Audio Links:
Click - BBC technology review programme - watch online
BBC
Radio4's In Business - listen online
IMECHE
UK engineering science webcasts - watch online
University
of Maryland USA Engineering lectures - watch online
TDC
Trade webcasts - watch online
BBC
the bottom line - listen online
BBC
Shop Talk - listen online
Design Intitutions:
designcouncil,
UK
Institution of Mechanical
Engineers, UK
The Industrial Designers
Society, America
Institute of Industrial Design,
Norway
National Institute of Design,
India
Association of Industrial
Designers, India
Royal Incorporation of
Architects, Scotland
Royal Institute
of British Architects, UK
The Institution of Engineering
and Technology, UK
Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers
Design Management Institute,
USA
Corporate Design Foundation,
USA
Society of Concurrent
Product Development, USA
Product Development Management
Association, USA
CMU Institute
for Complex Engineered Systems, Cambridge
Society of Manufacturing
Engineers, USA
The American
Marketing Association
International
Design Research Society
British Design
innovation, UK
association of women
industrial designers
Institution of Engineering
Designers
International Council
of Societies of Industrial Design
The
Centre for Design Research
Branding:
Brands
of the World
Design Business Links:
Global Business Network
Design Museums:
Thelighthouse,
Glasgow
Design Museum, London
Victoria and Albert Museum,
London
Cooper-Hewitt,
National Design Museum, New York
Red Dott Germany, Singapore
Geffrye Museum,
London
Vitra Design Museum,
Germany
Bauhaus
museum of design, Berlin
Design Museo, Helsinki
Arts
and Crafts Museum, UK
DESIGN CENTER, BARCELONA
CENTRE DESIGN,
MARSEILLE
CENTRE GEORGES
POMPIDOU
DANISH DESIGN CENTER
The
Chicago Athenaeum
The IDE
Virtual Design Museum
Interlectual Property:
UK
Patent Office
The
European Patent Office
United States Patent and
Trademark Office
Delphion Patent Database
US Patent Search
Free Patents
Online
MIT Invention
Dimension
Google Patents
Patent of the Week
- interesting soptlight on patents
The
British Library
Design Education:
Product Design Engineering
- Glasgow School of Art, UK
Product
Design Engineering - Brunel, UK
Industrial
Design Engineering - Royal College of Art, UK
Ergonomics & Anthropometrics:
Don Norman's jnd website
Human Factors and Ergonomics
Society
Health &
Saftey Execuitive, UK
Anthropometric
strength data for people with disability, UK
Adultdata
- anthropometric and physical strength data, UK
The ergonomics society,
UK
Adaptive Environments
Center
Alexander Technique
Trace Research
and Development Center
Human
Factor from NASA
Interaction Design:
we
make-money-not-art
RCA
on Interaction Design, UK
Design Data & Trends:
Census Data, USA
National
Statistics UK - Social Trends
Google Trends
Plausible Futures
Structural Design Resources:
Steel
detailing guidelines
Engineering Resources:
Engineering
Design Data
Materials Science:
British
Plastics Federation
British Coatings Federation
Innovaton Resources:
MIT Center for
Innovation in Product Development, USA
Journal
of Product Innovation Management, USA
engage
- innovation methods database
Sustainable Design:
Product-Life
- research into maximisation of product life
Centre for sustainable
design, UK
Design Certification Resources:
British Standards
European Commission
- European Standards
Lloyds Register
Det Norske Veritas
American Bureau of Shipping
ADA Standards for Accessible
Design, USA
Food and Drug Administration, USA
Health & Saftey Execuitive, UK
Design Resource Directories:
Design Competitions &
Awards:
The architecture
room
RIBA Competitions
livingsteel
- Design Using Steel
death
by architecture
e-architect
competitions
architecture
week competitions
Architecture
Competitions - Archiseek.com
Bombay
Sapphire Glass Design Competition
IF Design Award -
Germany
RSA Design
Directions - UK
Sources of Capital:
The National
Venture Capitalist Association, USA
British Venture Capital
Association ,UK
Innovation Relay
Centres
The British Business Angels
Association
B usiness angel networks,
UK
The Carbon Trust,
UK
Design Resource Directories:
Design-Engine
Directory.designer.am
Design Directory
The Designer
Directory
architecturedirectory.co.uk
Design Consultants:
sproutdesign
Ideo
fitch
esign areas.
comprehensive design development from concept to build
We can analyse your project proposals with practical engineering
experience, and report on their feasibility.
We can create sound concept design ideas from a fresh perspective.
We can develop the mechanisms and structures your concept depends on.
We can prototype and test designs and link to results of engineering analysis.
Contact Josh Reid to discuss the progress of your project.
Drawing on the diverse experience of our multidisciplinary design team
we will propose a concept that is inspiring, feasible and commercial.
Developing the project using the all professional skills required we will fully
detail the design and, underpinned by engineering analysis, will manage
the build process to ensure that our delivery matches the quality of
our initial proposal.
Contact us for a no-obilgaton quotation on your project.
