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Materials Technology: an interview with Marcus Fairs

Seymourpowell has interviewed Dezeen's editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs who speaks about affordable 3D printing and scanning. Apart from that, Marcus…

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Added by Robert Zlokower on April 15, 2013 at 16:30 — No Comments

Applied Design Thinking for a Social Project

Applied Design Thinking for a Social Project

At our Master of Design (MDes) course, we recently had the opportunity to work with a live project to learn and practice design thinking skills. It's the full report about our project and therefore a bit lengthy. Have fun flicking through... 

Added by Marcel Münch on April 15, 2013 at 13:53 — No Comments

We're hiring a service designer!

Things are going well at Koos HQ. This means we're growing and we're hiring!

Are you the one genius service designer who will enrich our team with all your skills, competences and personality?

Check out the details in the PDF!

Koos is hiring a service designer

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Added by Robbert-Jan van Oeveren on April 13, 2013 at 11:30 — No Comments

Designed By Removal: The Invention Of The Baseball Hand Signal & How A Deaf Man Changed The Game Forever



Like an epidemic, a baseball craze hit New York City in the summer of 1865. Suddenly, a game played only in the streets by factory workers was being called a “national pastime” by local journalists. Baseball was bringing…

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Added by Lyden Foust on April 11, 2013 at 5:30 — No Comments

Two Years at the Coalface: A Miner Reflects

For two years our columnist Doug Collins has shared with us his exploration of the practice of collaborative innovation.

Today, at this anniversary, we announce the release of volume 2 of his Innovation Architecture series, an exciting and deeply thought-provoking book whose cover is depicted in the headline graphic for this…

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Added by Doug Collins on April 10, 2013 at 8:00 — No Comments

Design Through Humility

Have you ever wondered why children pick up on things so quickly? Think of it, they learn an entire language with no previous knowledge of communication. Whereas with adults, it often takes years to comprehend a new concept.

Adult’s inability to learn comes from our ingrained attitude and past experience. What prevents people from learning is not the subject itself, but the rigidity we accumulate from past experience. This could manifest itself in the form of superiority whenever we…

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Added by Lyden Foust on April 7, 2013 at 21:29 — No Comments

Engineering For Change

Engineering for Change provides a forum to connect, collaborate, solve challenges and share knowledge among a growing community of engineers, technologists, social scientists, NGOs, local governments and community advocates, who are dedicated to improving the quality of life all over the world.…

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Added by Alexandra Velnidou on April 6, 2013 at 11:30 — No Comments

Pre-Milan fair 2013

Watch a special pre-Milan Fair review featuring Carl de Smet, Belgian designer and engineer, who creates self assembling furniture. The key feature of his technique is the ability to grow from compact form to a pre defined design in several minutes.…

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Added by Robert Zlokower on April 5, 2013 at 15:30 — No Comments

The New Industrial Revolution: 3D printing and rapid prototyping

Matthew Cockerill, Associate Design Director at Seymourpowell, shared his views on the democratization of product development highlighting the opportunities of 3D printing and affordable 3D printers. 

''3D printing is evolving but its output at this point is mainly suitable for rapid prototyping. It’s good for getting parts you’ve created in 3D CAD into a physical form without expensive tooling or days of…

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Added by Robert Zlokower on April 5, 2013 at 14:30 — No Comments

The Drum Design 100 2013

Good news: 'The Drum' has ranked Seymourpowell number two in the client poll of  the 2013 design 100. To find more information on The Drum Design100 visit their …

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Added by Robert Zlokower on April 5, 2013 at 9:30 — No Comments

The Art of Concealment

Seymourpowell’s design and CMF researcher Chloe Amos-Edkins and design researcher Sarah Johnson appeared in January’s edition of Interior Design Today. Their report below reveals some key trends in storage which has them thinking inside and outside the box.

With the overwhelming amount of ‘stuff’ people now possess, consumers are suffering from a sense of overloading of stuff, information and…

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Added by Robert Zlokower on March 29, 2013 at 16:30 — No Comments

Listen to consumers – or ignore them?

Dr Kevin McFarthing recently commented in his Innovation Fixer blog about the debate between innovating with or without consumers’ ideas in mind.…

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Added by Robert Zlokower on March 20, 2013 at 17:00 — 1 Comment

Better Living through Collaborative Innovation

Organizations big and small have begun to explore the practice of collaborative innovation as a way to increase engagement and to foment a culture of innovation. Let’s say you work for such an organization. What’s the quid pro quo when you find yourself part of the crowd from which wisdom is sought?

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Added by Doug Collins on March 19, 2013 at 14:52 — No Comments

Why Design and Technology Education Matters

At the fourteenth Design and Technology Excellence Awards, held on Friday 8th March at the IET London, Dick Powell, co-founder and design director at Seymourpowell, made a passionate and compelling case for why design and technology education is so important and why the current draft Design and Technology programme of study poses such a huge threat...…

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Added by Robert Zlokower on March 18, 2013 at 17:00 — No Comments

The Path of Illumination for 2013

Seymourpowell’s Design and CMF researcher Chloe Amos-Edkins appeared in the 2012 November/December edition of Interior Design Today. In her report, Chloe discusses four key trends inspiring lighting…

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Added by Robert Zlokower on March 18, 2013 at 17:00 — No Comments

New life from old paint

n a recent post of the RSA‘s Great Recovery Blog, Seymourpowell’s head of Sustainability, Chris Sherwin, discusses our winning entry to the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) funded ‘New Design for the…

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Added by Robert Zlokower on March 14, 2013 at 17:00 — No Comments

Design Insights: Designing for the differences

‘Designing for the differences,’ the ninth video in the ‘Design Insights’ series, features Richard Seymour, co-founder and design director of Seymourpowell, discussing the importance of gender differences for design.

Cick here to read more and watch the video

Added by Robert Zlokower on March 8, 2013 at 17:00 — No Comments

Seymourpowell visits India

In February, Seymourpowell design researcher Sarah Johnson was lucky enough to visit Mumbai and Delhi for a research trip. Click here to see a few places she visited and would highly recommend to others…

Added by Robert Zlokower on March 6, 2013 at 16:30 — No Comments

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