Internship experiences, barriers to working class designers entering the industry and what was you obsessed with when you were 6? www.designtruth.co.uk Brad Harper - Founder / Design Truth Wyn Jones - Principal Consultant / PDD James Wood - Founder / Studio Wood James grew up working class and under conditions unfamiliar to most industrial designers. In his younger years he experienced domestic violence, physical and emotional abuse, addiction and instability. He grew up with his mother and brother at times living in social housing and eating from food banks to get by. Since entering the ..read more

Growth mindset, vulnerable leaders & creating positive habits. www.designtruth.co.uk Brad Harper - Founder / Design Truth Wyn Jones - Principal Consultant / PDD Susan Walbrook / Life Coach For more on Susan, visit www.thecreativespacecoaching.com  ..read more

Holiday blues, Keyshot courses and why can't I escape this thing called AI? www.designtruth.co.uk Brad Harper - Founder / Design Truth Wyn Jones - Principal Consultant / PDD Tom Parsons - Founder / Aetha Design ..read more

Designing for The Apprentice, Alan Sugar as a fairy & how design should be portrayed on the TV. Brad & Wyn are joined by Paul Robbins from Product Resolutions (who knows a thing or two about toothbrushes) & Adam Davies from Innovate Product Design who was one of the designers in this series. Paul: https://productresolutions.com/ Adam: https://www.innovate-design.co.uk/ https://www.innovate-design.co.uk/the-apprentice/ Sponsor: https://www.solidsolutions.co.uk/ https://www.solidsolutions.co.uk/solidworks-videos/what-is-the-solidworks-entrepreneur-program.aspx?sent=N&playl ..read more

Challenges of design education, teaching for jobs that do not exist yet and finding out what an empathy artist is. Guests: Matt Sinclair (Programme Director at Loughborough) & Leila Sheldrick (Head of Global Innovation Design at Imperial College) This episode is sponsored by Geomiq. Geomiq.com is an online manufacturing platform that the worlds leading engineering teams use to get quotes and place orders for both prototyping or production parts. The platform is super easy to use and you can invite your team members to review quotes or track orders with just a click of a button. Visit G ..read more

We talk to Kevin McCullagh - owner of Plan Strategic - about the end of post-it notes, how Industrial Design was formerly a cult and what we can learn from the UX community... + a lot more. This is a big-picture look at what the future of industrial design might look like ... agree/disagree? Fire some thoughts to hello@designtruth.co.uk or track us down on the socials. https://www.plan.london/ This episode is sponsored by Geomiq. Geomiq.com is an online manufacturing platform that the worlds leading engineering teams use to get quotes and place orders for both prototyping or production par ..read more

Robotic sandwich makers, questioning everything and cooking a Lamb shank during a university lecture with Nick Chubb - Lead Industrial Designer at IDC. IDC (Industrial Design Consultancy) based out of Datchet, Windsor is one of the world's leading independent product development consultancies. With an exceptional product design heritage which spans almost 50 years, IDC also has a corresponding design studio in China - in fact they were the first British agency in Shanghai offering trusted, high level design and ‘on the ground’ support to Chinese and international companies. https://www.idc ..read more

Robotic toilet brushes, menstrual cups and starting your own business with Alex Peet (ex Dyson & Mous) from Parallel Products Ltd.  You can flick through the store here (Drew's birthday present was the bottle opener...) - https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/MadeByParallel This episode is brought to you by our sponsor Inneo Solutions. Inneo are providing a £100 voucher that can be used on Keyshot, PTC, software training and more to those that sign up to the design truth patreon. https://www.patreon.com/designtruth http://www.inneo.co.uk/designtruth To be involved in a future episode of d ..read more

Mark Hester (Co-Founder), Tris Keech (Creative Director) and Tim Maclean (Engineering Manager) from The Imagination Factory joined us for a beer to talk sustainability, BCorp, wacky briefs and how to get the most out of the design/engineering dynamic. Drew was unable to make this episode, but do not panic he will be back soon. This episode does probably contain the odd swear word ... and an engineer.  Design Truth is brought to you by our sponsor Inneo Solutions: a business transformation provider and platinum reseller of Keyshot & PTC.  Inneo are providing a £100 voucher tha ..read more

We go back across the pond to talk with Hector Silva around the story of advanced design, finding your purpose to turning down a role at Apple. This episode is sponsored by Inneo Solutions - a leading business transformation provider and a platinum reseller for PTC and KeyShot.. Inneo are providing a £100 voucher to use on any of their services to those that sign up to the design truth patreon. Full details can be found at: www.patreon.com/designtruth www.inneo.co.uk/designtruth To find out more about our guest Hector's design education platform Offsite, click this link: https://advdes.or ..read more