Stephen Holmes, Author at DEVELOP3D

Dassault Design In Life: press days how they should be

Posted by Stephen Holmes - June 13, 2011

Press events are usually a bombardment of self promotion, injecting the company’s brand into your consciousness and feeding you enough case studies to make their competition pale into insignificance. So…

Ferrari World Design Contest finals

Posted by Stephen Holmes - June 14, 2011

All those schoolboy memories of trying and failing miserably to sketch my favourite Ferrari have today built to the horrible conclusion that I will fail to win the Ferrari World…

Prime Cuts: Hear me now!

Posted by Stephen Holmes - June 16, 2011

This week we’ve turned to a rather nifty ‘glory project’ from Dassault Systèmes DesignStudio team in conjunction with designer Jean Hong. The Helix-IR concept is a wireless high definition sound…

Autodesk’s new cloud collaboration tool get’s manly title

Posted by Stephen Holmes - June 21, 2011

I like to imagine the heads of software companies at the moment when they’re trying to think of a name for their latest product. Men in bad suits all perched…

Mother Lode of new jobs from Mamas & Papas

Posted by Stephen Holmes - June 22, 2011

Designers and Engineers – Mamas & Papas Once again those fine people at Mamas & Papas have returned to DEVELOP3D Jobs to help it recruit another glut of designers and…

New Designers: talent abounds

Posted by Stephen Holmes - July 11, 2011

Nothing like a well designed shotgun to get your attention… the work of UCLAN graduate Humerah Ghori After four days at a design show we’re feeling a little exhausted, I…

3D Mouse of the future design competition

Posted by Stephen Holmes - July 11, 2011

Those of you sat working in 3D will probably feel blessed to be using one of 3Dconnexions 3D mice, yet there’s always room for improvement – and a $5,000 CAD…

New Designers 2011 – Our best finds – part one

Posted by Stephen Holmes - July 14, 2011

Easily the most eyecatching was this Triumph Twin Speed redux by Thomas Kasher and Roy Norton of Northumbria University Graduate shows are full of lots of exciting discoveries, so assemble…

New Designers 2011 – Our best finds – part two

Posted by Stephen Holmes - July 14, 2011

After a brief pause for some caffeine intake, we continue with the rest of our gems from the four-day New Designers show… Time to set things off with a bang.…

New Designers 2011 – Top Five – No.5: Chloe Rowley, De Montfort

Posted by Stephen Holmes - July 15, 2011

#5 Chloe Rowley, De Montfort Chloe Rowley’s specially designed swimming float for amputees helps to build reassurance in the recovery process With amputees gaining greater focus in the public eye,…