Stephen Holmes, Author at DEVELOP3D

New Designers 2012 – Top Five – No.2: George Barrett, Coventry

Posted by Stephen Holmes - July 24, 2012

“So it’s a Brompton?” was the response of a colleague when I showed them the Grace folding bike from Coventry University’s George Barrett. No, it’s not. The problem with cycle…

New Designers 2012 – Top Five – No.1: Richard Burrow, Plymouth

Posted by Stephen Holmes - July 25, 2012

Products come and go – today’s iPhone could soon be yesterday’s Bakelite dial phone – so taking the time to look at past designs and completely re-engineer them for modern…

Scalextric4Schools Challenge – 2012 Final

Posted by Stephen Holmes - July 26, 2012

Overall winners Forfar Academy take to the podium The schools slot-car racing design challenge returned for another final, at the RAF museum, Cosford including a pair of international entrants from…

3D printing hits London’s high streets

Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 6, 2012

A short moment’s walk away from Britain’s busiest shopping hub of Oxford St, 3D printing is now available to anyone walking off the streets and into any of The Color…

Nissan redesigns London’s iconic Black Cabs

Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 7, 2012

Times are hard for London’s cabbies: rising fuel prices, insurance payments and emissions reductions are not appeasing the notoriously disgruntled workforce of the Capital’s iconic transport. Having already been chosen…

SIGGRAPH 2012 #6: report from the show floor – part 1

Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 8, 2012

InfiniteZ’s zSpace holographic design system Some people who attend the SIGGRAPH computer graphics trade show year after year complain that there are no technology breakthroughs to be seen. Sometimes it’s…

SIGGRAPH 2012 #8: report from the show floor – part 2

Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 9, 2012

TeamUp’s Multi-Optics software uses real time physics-based rendering to enable teams to collaborate in a web-based interface. For some designers and engineers, rendering is like buying new tyres for the…

Nike’s Olympic designs: how to get faster every four years

Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 10, 2012

Last night we were lucky enough to sneak into Nike’s newest London lair – its Nike+ Innovation spot in the Selfridges department store – where Martin Lotti, Nike global creative…

Olympic light show – the biggest pixel screen and more

Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 13, 2012

Despite some questionable musical performances, interpretive dance, and George Michael singing ‘Freedom’ to a group of North Korean athletes about to head back home, the most impressive thing about last…

I was blind, but now… I have infrared detection…

Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 15, 2012

The traditional ‘white cane’ favoured by the visually impaired has a number of serious drawbacks, in that it can only inform its user of very immediate obstacles and dangers. The…