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Loughborough Design Graduates feature at New Designers event.
Added: (Wed Jul 06 2005)
New Designers is the UK’s foremost exhibition of truly fresh creative design talent. It delivers an event brimming with innovation and features the work of some of the country’s best and most talented designers. The 2005 New Designers event will showcase the next generation of talented young designers displaying exciting and truly original work to the industry, the public and the media.
Some of Loughborough University’s best 2005 design graduates will be presenting their work at New Designers. The range of products featured reflects the originality and creativity of these designers - from a travellers smoke alarm and personal safety device to a nutritionally educational lunchbox and from an urban shopping carrier to a wearable drinks storage system.
With a strong emphasis addressing real world problems the designers provide solutions to aspects of modern urban living with an insulated barbecue, a portable, desktop air-conditioner and furnishings for urban plants.
Health and exercise are two of the themes in the work with an exercise chair for sedentary workers, a synthetic tennis ball for partially sighted players and, for when the exercise is a little too vigorous, a re-usable fracture cast.
Music and entertainment are also featured with an Internet Relay Chat Emoticon, a surveillance toy to suit the Spy Gear range of toys and, for any potential couch potatoes, a polymer frame bicycle.
Innovative solutions to practical, everyday, problems are offered with a data receiver to alert and inform the deaf, a redesigned battery-powered smoke alarm and a refreshable Braille display with onscreen text and hyperlinks.
A review of the Loughborough work can be found at: http://www.lizziedutton.co.uk/newdesigners/
Loughborough University’s Industrial Design and Technology program provides graduates with skills across the range from designing and making to design-related academic subjects. Knowledge and skills are gained in materials and processes, the development and communication of ideas, ergonomics, design for all, the techniques of planning and costing, and the production of prototypes and finished artefacts. The Department of Design and Technology at Loughborough is at: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/cd/
Details of the New Designers event are at: http://www.newdesigners.com/