Design Truth

Internship experiences, barriers to working class designers entering the industry and what was you obsessed with when you were 6? www.designtruth.co.uk Brad Harper - Founder / Design Truth Wyn Jones - Principal Consultant / PDD James Wood - Founder / Studio Wood James grew up working class and under conditions unfamiliar to most industrial designers. In his younger years he experienced domestic violence, physical and emotional abuse, addiction and instability. He grew up with his mother a...

Growth mindset, vulnerable leaders & creating positive habits. www.designtruth.co.uk Brad Harper - Founder / Design Truth Wyn Jones - Principal Consultant / PDD Susan Walbrook / Life Coach For more on Susan, visit www.thecreativespacecoaching.com

Holiday blues, Keyshot courses and why can't I escape this thing called AI? www.designtruth.co.uk Brad Harper - Founder / Design Truth Wyn Jones - Principal Consultant / PDD Tom Parsons - Founder / Aetha Design.

New Designers 2037, futures over history and the power of community with Navpreet Singh, Hiten Naranbhai & Calum Gambrill. www.designtruth.co.uk

Troubling statistics, the importance of D&T in schools and a little whinge about unpaid internships. Tony Ryan - CEO of The Design & Technology Association. https://www.data.org.uk/ Sponsor - Solid Solutions: https://www.solidsolutions.co.uk/ https://www.solidsolutions.co.uk/soli... Solid Solutions is the number one training and support provider in all things Solidworks. Design Truth: https://www.designtruth.co.uk/

Why you should think beyond a design for instagram approach, cold-calling LG & Sony as well as looking at what makes a great brief with James Melia, Creative Director & Founder of London based industrial design agency Blond. James https://blond.cc/ Sponsor - Solid Solutions: https://www.solidsolutions.co.uk/ https://www.solidsolutions.co.uk/solidworks-videos/what-is-the-solidworks-entrepreneur-program.aspx?sent=N&playlistguid=E6062645-82A7-4FB0-A11E-B5697D56DF7D Solid Soluti...

Designing for The Apprentice, Alan Sugar as a fairy & how design should be portrayed on the TV. Brad & Wyn are joined by Paul Robbins from Product Resolutions (who knows a thing or two about toothbrushes) & Adam Davies from Innovate Product Design who was one of the designers in this series. Paul: https://productresolutions.com/ Adam: https://www.innovate-design.co.uk/ https://www.innovate-design.co.uk/the-apprentice/ Sponsor: https://www.solidsolutions.co.uk/ https://www.s...

Purchase order systems, Ralf Rangnick & sustainability flaws in restaurants as we are joined by our new co-host Wyn Jones - Head of Design at Entia.You can download our free salary guide for industrial design at https://www.designtruth.co.uk/salaryguideThis episode is sponsored by Geomiq.Geomiq.com is an online manufacturing platform that the worlds leading engineering teams use to get quotes and place orders for both prototyping or production parts.The platform is super easy to use and you can invite your team members to review quotes or track orders with just a click of a button.Visit Geomiq.com now and upload your file for £50 off of your first order of CNC, Injection Moulding, Sheet Metal and 3D Printed parts as an exclusive to Design Truth, with code ‘Truth50’.  (use the code in the notes section on the quote request)If  that fails, track us down directly and we will sort it out for you.www.designtruth.co.ukinstagram: wespeakdesigntruth Ever want to be on the podcast ... track us down to hello@designtruth.co.uk  

We are joined by Matthew Cockerill to talk designing for a thousand years, SeymourPowell & working without a brief. This episode is sponsored by Geomiq. Geomiq.com is an online manufacturing platform that the worlds leading engineering teams use to get quotes and place orders for both prototyping or production parts. The platform is super easy to use and you can invite your team members to review quotes or track orders with just a click of a button. Visit Geomiq.com now and upload you...

Challenges of design education, teaching for jobs that do not exist yet and finding out what an empathy artist is. Guests: Matt Sinclair (Programme Director at Loughborough) & Leila Sheldrick (Head of Global Innovation Design at Imperial College) This episode is sponsored by Geomiq. Geomiq.com is an online manufacturing platform that the worlds leading engineering teams use to get quotes and place orders for both prototyping or production parts. The platform is super easy to use and yo...

Lewis Hamilton, Turkmenistan & some agency called PriestmanGoode with the owner of Quigley Design, Kevin Quigley. This episode is sponsored by Geomiq. Geomiq.com is an online manufacturing platform that the worlds leading engineering teams use to get quotes and place orders for both prototyping or production parts. The platform is super easy to use and you can invite your team members to review quotes or track orders with just a click of a button. Visit Geomiq.com now and upload your f...

We talk to Kevin McCullagh - owner of Plan Strategic - about the end of post-it notes, how Industrial Design was formerly a cult and what we can learn from the UX community... + a lot more. This is a big-picture look at what the future of industrial design might look like ... agree/disagree? Fire some thoughts to hello@designtruth.co.uk or track us down on the socials. https://www.plan.london/ This episode is sponsored by Geomiq. Geomiq.com is an online manufacturing platform that the wor...

Nolii is a design-led brand based in London, detangling the experience of tech accessories. Design Truth are helping them find an Industrial Designer (4 years + experience.) Through 5 questions with CEO, Asad Hamir, we hope you have gathered a true insight into the culture, vision and proposition of the position. So if you are watching this with portfolio at the ready, or for just last minute interview prep, this is the next stage in our journey of keeping industrial design connected. No...

Robotic sandwich makers, questioning everything and cooking a Lamb shank during a university lecture with Nick Chubb - Lead Industrial Designer at IDC. IDC (Industrial Design Consultancy) based out of Datchet, Windsor is one of the world's leading independent product development consultancies. With an exceptional product design heritage which spans almost 50 years, IDC also has a corresponding design studio in China - in fact they were the first British agency in Shanghai offering trusted, ...

A fridge with a radio, the role of a lecturer & getting to grips with design education during covid with Paul De'Ath - Course Leader for Product Design at Central Saint Martins, London. This episode is brought to you by our sponsor Inneo Solutions. Inneo are providing a £100 voucher that can be used on Keyshot, PTC, software training and more to those that sign up to the design truth patreon. https://www.patreon.com/designtruth https://www.inneo.co.uk/designtruth To be involved in a f...

From bribing design directors with biscuits to creating the mecca for soft goods, we caught up with Ed Burdick, director of Texolab to talk all things industrial design. This episode is brought to you by our sponsor Inneo Solutions.Inneo are providing a £100 voucher that can be used on Keyshot, PTC, software training and more to those that sign up to the design truth patreon.https://www.patreon.com/designtruthhttp://www.inneo.co.uk/designtruthTo be involved in a future episode of design truth, drop a message to hello@designtruth.co.ukFor more on texolab: http://www.texolab.co.uk/

Robotic toilet brushes, menstrual cups and starting your own business with Alex Peet (ex Dyson & Mous) from Parallel Products Ltd. You can flick through the store here (Drew's birthday present was the bottle opener...) - https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/MadeByParallel This episode is brought to you by our sponsor Inneo Solutions. Inneo are providing a £100 voucher that can be used on Keyshot, PTC, software training and more to those that sign up to the design truth patreon. https://...

We take a look into the world of design awards with Brandon Gien - CEO of Good Design Australia. This episode is brought to you by our sponsor Inneo Solutions. Inneo are providing a £100 voucher that can be used on Keyshot, PTC, software training and more to those that sign up to the design truth patreon. https://www.patreon.com/designtruth https://www.inneo.co.uk/designtruth To be involved in a future episode of design truth, drop a message to hello@designtruth.co.uk

Mark Hester (Co-Founder), Tris Keech (Creative Director) and Tim Maclean (Engineering Manager) from The Imagination Factory joined us for a beer to talk sustainability, BCorp, wacky briefs and how to get the most out of the design/engineering dynamic. Drew was unable to make this episode, but do not panic he will be back soon. This episode does probably contain the odd swear word ... and an engineer. Design Truth is brought to you by our sponsor Inneo Solutions: a business transforma...

We did a Euro 2020 sweepstake with the design truth community. This is not so much a design truth episode, but a confirmation that despite getting Portugal, this was not a fix. As always, a massive thank you to our sponsor Inneo Solutions for providing a £100 voucher to those that sign up to the design truth patreon. Inneo are a platinum reseller of keyshot & PTC, so hopefully this saving is of massive value to you. https://www.patreon.com/designtruth https://www.inneo.co.uk/designtru...