Stephen Holmes, Author at DEVELOP3D

SolidWorks launches Mechanical Conceptual at SWW14

Posted by Stephen Holmes - January 28, 2014

Dassault Systèmes (DS) has used its international user event to launch its new conceptual and collaborative tool SolidWorks Mechanical Conceptual. Billed as a ‘New conceptual, instinctive, social, connected design application’,…

F1’s new nose – aerodynamics has never looked so bad

Posted by Stephen Holmes - January 28, 2014

Interesting design changes in F1 this season have seen some eye-catching front end designs There’s something unsettling about the F1 cars lining up for the 2014 season – and it’s…

Dassualt Systèmes makes $750m sciences acquisition

Posted by Stephen Holmes - January 30, 2014

Dassault Systèmes (DS) has announced it will merge with Accelrys, a provider of scientific innovation lifecycle management software for chemistry, biology and materials, for $750m. Based in San Diego, the…

Japanese engineering company floats new idea for inland flood victims

Posted by Stephen Holmes - February 3, 2014

The new design for an ‘inland’ lifeboat (left) has more padding than its high-seas cousin Japanese heavy machinery maker IHI has designed a new lifeboat for ‘inland’ use – set…

Sochi 2014: Team USA Bobsled design

Posted by Stephen Holmes - February 6, 2014

Tomorrow sees the beginning of the 2014 Winter Olympics, an event that has plunged the UK into a fervent, writhing diaspora of ‘meh’. With half the United Kingdom submerged by…

Seymourpowell shows off the versatility that makes product design great

Posted by Stephen Holmes - February 12, 2014

If ‘variety is the spice of life’, then Seymourpowell is a having a veritable vindaloo of a time as this month it announces its Lynx/Axe can redesign and an outdoor…

Say ‘I love you’ with 3D printed crap this Valentine’s Day and prepare to be dumped

Posted by Stephen Holmes - February 14, 2014

Love is in the air. Best stick with a card and some flowers (real ones) Having slumped in a doorway, newspaper held above our head, perpetual rain hammering away at…

Deep trouble: product design to aid flood victims

Posted by Stephen Holmes - February 17, 2014

With persistent rain still falling, parts of the UK are still several feet underwater – with some suggesting that this is to become a near constant scenario for winters in…

Nokia want to get into your knickers

Posted by Stephen Holmes - February 18, 2014

It’s fashion week once more here in London, and the tech companies aren’t shy of hanging on its glamorous coattails as Nokia proved today with its sartorial effort. The phone…

Future design of city cars – The new Twingo

Posted by Stephen Holmes - February 18, 2014

Does the Twingo MkIII show the way for new small car design? Anyone that ventured to France during the 1990s will have inherently built up a hatred of the Renault…