The first 100 days of industrial design agency, Blond: Episode 39

Internship experiences, barriers to working class designers entering the industry and what was you obsessed with when you were 6?

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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 industry, he’s found that almost no one shares his origins, and is now passionate about helping others from working-class origins enter the industry. We spoke to him to understand his perspective on the issue.

Growth mindset, vulnerable leaders & creating positive habits.

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Brad Harper - Founder / Design Truth
Wyn Jones - Principal Consultant / PDD
Susan Walbrook / Life Coach

For more on Susan, visit www.thecreativespacecoaching.com 

Holiday blues, Keyshot courses and why can't I escape this thing called AI?

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Brad Harper - Founder / Design Truth
Wyn Jones - Principal Consultant / PDD
Tom Parsons - Founder / Aetha Design.

New Designers 2037, futures over history and the power of community with Navpreet Singh, Hiten Naranbhai & Calum Gambrill.

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Troubling statistics, the importance of D&T in schools and a little whinge about unpaid internships.

Tony Ryan - CEO of The Design & Technology Association.

https://www.data.org.uk/

Sponsor - Solid Solutions:

https://www.solidsolutions.co.uk/

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Solid Solutions is the number one training and support provider in all things Solidworks.

Design Truth:

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Why you should think beyond a design for instagram approach, cold-calling LG & Sony as well as looking at what makes a great brief with James Melia, Creative Director & Founder of London based industrial design agency Blond.

James

https://blond.cc/

Sponsor - Solid Solutions:

https://www.solidsolutions.co.uk/

https://www.solidsolutions.co.uk/solidworks-videos/what-is-the-solidworks-entrepreneur-program.aspx?sent=N&playlistguid=E6062645-82A7-4FB0-A11E-B5697D56DF7D

Solid Solutions is the number one training and support provider in all things Solidworks.

Design Truth:

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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&playlistguid=E6062645-82A7-4FB0-A11E-B5697D56DF7D

Design Truth:

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We are joined by Matthew Cockerill to talk designing for a thousand years, SeymourPowell & working without a brief.

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 Geomiq.com now and upload your file for £50 off of your first order of CNC, Injection Moulding, Sheet Metal and 3D Printed parts as an exclusive to Design Truth, with code ‘Truth50’.  (use the code in the notes section on the quote request)

If  that fails, track us down directly and we will sort it out for you.

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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 Geomiq.com now and upload your file for £50 off of your first order of CNC, Injection Moulding, Sheet Metal and 3D Printed parts as an exclusive to Design Truth, with code ‘Truth50’.  (use the code in the notes section on the quote request)

If  that fails, track us down directly and we will sort it out for you.

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Lewis Hamilton, Turkmenistan & some agency called PriestmanGoode with the owner of Quigley Design, Kevin Quigley.

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 Geomiq.com now and upload your file for £50 off of your first order of CNC, Injection Moulding, Sheet Metal and 3D Printed parts as an exclusive to Design Truth, with code ‘Truth50’.  (use the code in the notes section on the quote request)

If  that fails, track us down directly and we will sort it out for you.

www.designtruth.co.uk
instagram: wespeakdesigntruth