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

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/https://www.solidsolutions.co.uk/soli...Solid Solutions is the number one training and support provider in all things Solidworks.Design Truth:https://www.designtruth.co.uk/

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.Jameshttps://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-B5697D56DF7DSolid Solutions is the number one training and support provider in all things Solidworks.Design Truth:https://www.designtruth.co.uk/

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-B5697D56DF7DDesign Truth:https://www.designtruth.co.uk/

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.www.designtruth.co.ukinstagram: wespeakdesigntruth For more on Matthew:https://www.matthew-cockerill.com/Ever want to be on the podcast ... track us down to hello@designtruth.co.uk  

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.www.designtruth.co.ukinstagram: wespeakdesigntruth 

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.ukinstagram: wespeakdesigntruth 

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 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.ukinstagram: wespeakdesigntruth 

Nolii is a design-led brand based in London, detangling the experience of tech accessories.Design Truth are helping them find an Industrial Designer (4 years + experience.)Through 5 questions with CEO, Asad Hamir, we hope you have gathered a true insight into the culture, vision and proposition of the position. So if you are watching this with portfolio at the ready, or for just last minute interview prep, this is the next stage in our journey of keeping industrial design connected.No longer will you see the famous 'our client is' on job adverts. Complete honesty, transparency with a full overview of the process. No hidden surprises.The full job advert - including salary, remote working and the odd bullet point - you can find here: https://www.designtruth.co.uk/vacanci...Please email any application to hello@designtruth.co.ukFor more on Asad & Nolii, take a listen to his full episode on Design Truth.https://nolii.com/https://www.designtruth.co.uk/

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.uk.com/They are currently recruiting for a Senior Design Engineer - so if you liked the idea of potentially working with Nick, take a look at the advert below:http://careers.idc.uk.com/apply/5tzP7ZvpNO/Senior-Design-EngineerProject-ManagerFor more on Nick - his work, portfolio improvement program and blog posts ... check out his website: https://www.nickchubbdesign.com/For more on us ... just type design truth on that google thing.  hello@designtruth.co.uk if you ever want to be a guest on the podcast.

A fridge with a radio, the role of a lecturer & getting to grips with design education during covid with Paul De'Ath - Course Leader for Product Design at Central Saint Martins, London.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/designtruthhttps://www.inneo.co.uk/designtruthTo be involved in a future episode of design truth, drop a message to hello@designtruth.co.ukFor more on design truth: https://www.designtruth.co.uk

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/MadeByParallelThis 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/designtruthhttp://www.inneo.co.uk/designtruthTo be involved in a future episode of design truth, drop a message to hello@designtruth.co.ukAlex also has his own podcast, chatting business & design: https://open.spotify.com/show/77JJCeaLezSstL5cExJkg8?si=NWcg5oKjRcyaNthrFVvcfA&utm_source=copy-link&dl_branch=1

We take a look into the world of design awards with Brandon Gien - CEO of Good Design Australia.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/designtruthhttps://www.inneo.co.uk/designtruthTo be involved in a future episode of design truth, drop a message to hello@designtruth.co.uk

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 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/designtruthFor more on the ethnic diversity excellence programme from Sunny Panesar at Kinneir Dufort: https://www.theengineer.co.uk/kinneir-dufort-to-launch-ethnic-diversity-excellence-programme/To be involved in a future episode of design truth, drop a message to hello@designtruth.co.uk

We did a Euro 2020 sweepstake with the design truth community.This is not so much a design truth episode, but a confirmation that despite getting Portugal, this was not a fix.As always, a massive thank you to our sponsor Inneo Solutions for providing a £100 voucher to those that sign up to the design truth patreon.Inneo are a platinum reseller of keyshot & PTC, so hopefully this saving is of massive value to you.https://www.patreon.com/designtruthhttps://www.inneo.co.uk/designtruthIf you want to be on a future episode of design truth, contact us on hello@designtruth.co.ukThank you.

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/designtruthwww.inneo.co.uk/designtruthTo find out more about our guest Hector's design education platform Offsite, click this link: https://advdes.org/offsite hello@designtruth.co.uk if you wanted to be involved with the podcast.

We caught up with CEO of tech accessories brand Nolii, Asad Hamir.

The YouTube goat Sam Gwilt (sam does design) joined us to talk about what that is all about, being spotted at a festival through to working at London based design agency Layer design.

So we recently celebrated a one year anniversary of Design Truth.This is an impromptu 'episode' (it's not really an episode) to update you on how we are transitioning from a podcast to a business, a little glimpse to the next phase for truth,  some giveaway information and an update on a few episodes that will be coming out over the next week or two.hello@designtruth.co.uk  / or type in design truth on the socials if you ever want to track us down.Thank you for all the support.

We keep industrial design, connected.Design Truth met Design Theory (John Mauriello) to talk YouTube, dealing with awkward clients and the cultural differences that come with industrial design.If you want to be involved in a future episode, track us down to hello@designtruth.co.uk.