Product Design

Let’s celebrate our designers and engineers!

Posted by DEVELOP3D - December 12, 2013

A wider audience needs to appreciate our successful designers and engineers, writes Stephen Holmes, even if it is only to…

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Horrendous car = not necessarily bad design

Posted by Stephen Holmes - January 7, 2014

Our favourite news piece today is about the design and manufacturing history behind the Reliant Robin, a three-wheeled vehicle, weighing…

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Modularity to master complexity: ModeFrontier event to tackle issues facing engineers

Posted by Stephen Holmes - January 15, 2014

Esteco has announced its tenth ModeFrontier International Users Meeting to be held in Trieste, Italy, on 12-13 May, 2014. The…

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Product Design

Why consumer conscience should help battle IP infringements

Posted by DEVELOP3D - January 16, 2014

This month Tanya Weaver considers intellectual property infringement — from the world of advertising to the blatant copying of products…

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Zuken bringing electrical engineering closer to mechanical design

Posted by Stephen Holmes - January 21, 2014

Put simply, electrical design can be some fear inducing stuff, usually split off from the design and engineering sectors for…

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Top female engineer for president

Posted by Tanya Weaver - January 23, 2014

Professor Dame Ann Dowling is set to become the first female president of The Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE) later…

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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…

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Product Design

Unmasking SFX

Posted by DEVELOP3D - February 3, 2014

From giant puppets to small film props, special effects (SFX) company Artem melds cutting-edge design and engineering with traditional sculptural…

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Product Design

Helping engineering take off

Posted by DEVELOP3D - February 10, 2014

To increase the number of future engineers private sector foundations are taking matters Stephen Holmes finds the work of one…

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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…

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