Research

Design and New Product Development

Improving the Quality of Life

The Melio leg bag to greatly improve the lives of those suffering from bladder conditions

Partners with Industry

Design research supporting industry and the environment.

The Circular Economy

Concept research into resource efficient packaging for British Telecom

Additive Manufacturing

‘Creepers’ is a seemingly random growth but is in fact a carefully positioned series of reflectors that catch the light from low power LEDs

Computational Design

‘Holy Ghost’ uses a computational design approach that combines cad and computer programming

Design & New Product Development

Design and New Product Development is a multidisciplinary research group. Working across all the schools of design within the Faculty, it embraces Product, Furniture and Interior Design; Fashion, Contour Fashion and Footwear; Design Crafts, and Social Dimensions of Design.

The group was formed to perform pioneering research – empirical, theoretical, collaborative and practical – in both established and emerging domains. Special research interests include:

Additive manufacturing in design
Design for industry
Medical products and devices
Innovations in packaging
User informed design
Retail, consumers and technologies
Resource-efficient design
Historical, cultural and future issues in design

Oxford Instruments collaboration

Interview with Lynn Shepherd from Oxford Instruments.

For the OI group, we undertook design research into a three-dimensional corporate identity, as well as how to apply it across a variety of material finishes. For the group’s Finnish subsidiary, we researched hand-held devices for field analysis by dispersive X-ray fluorescence.