Stephen Holmes, Author at DEVELOP3D

Nintendo Switch opens designers thoughts to customised controls

Posted by Stephen Holmes - October 21, 2016

The Nintendo Switch controls system opens the market for customised designs to suit individual games With Nintendo unveiling its new games console, the Nintendo Switch, its modular ‘Joy-Con’ controllers that…

Weekender: Sheffield Design Week

Posted by Stephen Holmes - October 21, 2016

Sheffield Design Week returns this weekend to showcase the city’s design and manufacturing heritage as well as its future Sheffield Design Week uncovers the rich design heritage and future in…

New X-Rite AxF file to become a ‘Pantone chart’ for all material visualisation data

Posted by Stephen Holmes - October 21, 2016

Colour science experts X-Rite and its more well known subsidiary Pantone have announced the release of the Appearance Exchange Format (AxF), a new file for the full communication of material…

The Design Museum prepares to reopen with new promo film

Posted by Stephen Holmes - October 21, 2016

Sit back, relax, and enjoy shouting out the names of all the designers featured in this teaser film for the new Design Museum in London, opening in November 2016.

Honda’s ‘3D printed car’ takes most sensible path yet

Posted by Stephen Holmes - October 24, 2016

The adorable Honda delivery EV concept Honda’s design for a future electric urban delivery van is so achingly cute, it should probably pop up in Pokemon’s next outing, but on…

Reebok’s ‘Liquid Factory’ to transform shoe design and manufacture

Posted by Stephen Holmes - October 24, 2016

//giphy.com/embed/TT6GjccMpTSGA The race to ditch moulds and adopt more freedom for shoe outsoles has seen Reebok take the lead, as it looks to open a ‘Liquid Factory’ in Rhode Island,…

ZTE brings crowdsourcing into its phone design process with Project CSX

Posted by Stephen Holmes - October 25, 2016

The winning ZTE USA concept for Project CSX With smartphone manufacturers coming under fire in 2016 for their design changes (headphone jacks anyone?), ZTE USA has gone to its community…

How much value does a colour add?

Posted by Stephen Holmes - October 25, 2016

Would an exclusive rose gold finish make you more likely to buy this private jet? Last year we stumbled across what we believed to be the ultimate crowdfunding project, the…

Competition to design Scotland’s Baby Box opened by V&A Dundee Museum

Posted by Stephen Holmes - October 25, 2016

The Scottish Government and V&A Dundee museum have launched the competition to design a baby box to be given to all newborn children A competition to design a box of…