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Academia Partnership for Sustainability Knowledge

Press Release September 2007
The award-winning Industrial Design Consultancy Ltd (IDC) has turned to academia for the most cutting edge knowledge in green design. As part of its commitment to developing commercial sustainable designs, the consultancy has secured support from Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP) for a promising partnership with London South Bank University and a graduate recruitment process.

Continue reading 25 September 2007

Government Chooses IDC for £3bn Chinese Market

Press Release July 2007
The Award winning Industrial Design Consultancy Ltd (IDC) has been selected by the Department of Trade & Investment (UKTI) as one of the 12-strong team of leading British designers to capitalise on a £3billion emerging market in China.

Continue reading 25 July 2007

IDC Top of the Class with New Projector

Pupils and teachers using the modern day, ICT-focused classroom, stand to benefit from two unique new products designed for use with the increasingly popular interactive whiteboard. Award-winning product design specialist, Industrial Design Consultancy Ltd (IDC), was called on by Steljes to develop a secure, vandal-proof projector mount and a sturdy step for children that would make the whiteboard more user-friendly.

Continue reading 25 May 2007

IDC Designs Low Volume Spectrometer

Award-winning product design specialist, Industrial Design Consultancy Ltd (IDC), has supported Specac in the design of a special portable spectrometer called Prospect XL 3000 that uses the company’s innovative new infra-red spectroscopy technology for use in process plants. With low volume production in mind, IDC was tasked with the rapid development of a new product that harnessed all the advantages of Specac’s new technology, without the weighty costs associated with injection moulding tooling.

Continue reading 25 April 2007

Intelligent Personal ECG Heart Monitor

Thousands of people potentially at risk from heart disease are set to benefit from the world’s first personal ECG (Electrocardiogram) heart monitor from Medick Healthcare. Designed for consumers by the award-winning product design and innovation consultancy, Industrial Design Consultancy Ltd (IDC), the portable Medick Heart Monitor (MHM 100) has been carefully produced for an increasingly technology-savvy and health aware mature generation.

Continue reading 25 February 2007

IDC Helps Launch Design Council Initiative

October 2006
Managing Director Stephen Knowles gave a talk entitled ‘Commercially Effective Design — reducing the risk of product innovation.’ as part of the launch of the Design Council’s Designing Demand programme for businesses. The programme is intended to assist businesses to use design to improve their performance.

Continue reading 25 October 2006

Revolutionary Heart Monitor

The Daily Telegraph 24 October 2006
A technology venture that has spent £8m developing a revolutionary heart monitor is preparing for launch as the NHS shake-up reaches doctors’ surgeries. The C.Net5000, created by the software business Cardionetics, is a portable, fist-sized device that identifies abnormal heart rhythms linked to strokes and cardiac diseases. Patients simply strap on the battery-powered equipment and the results of a 24-hour observation are displayed on a built in screen.

Continue reading 24 October 2006

IDC client gets onto the Big Idea Show

October 2006
With the assistance of IDC, client Jason Rowles presented his Keyfreeze product on the Big Idea programme, which will be broadcasted on Sunday 29th October 2006 at 9pm on Sky One. His product is an innovative way to stop drink driving, by locking the drivers car key into a pocket sized case. To remove the key, the case needs to be placed into a freezer for a few hours to activate the release system.

Continue reading 14 October 2006

Innovative ‘mother and baby’ design

Daily Express 14 September 2005
"HIGH demand is expected for a new British-made cot that for the first time allows mother and baby to sleep safely within touching distance alongside each other. The BedNest is the handiwork of grandmother Cilla Labouchere, who was spurred into designing the cot after research from the childhood charity Right From The Start suggested aggression in later life could be reduced by infants having immediate contact with their mothers during the night.

Continue reading 14 September 2005

IDC is Design Effectiveness finalist

Design Business Association
IDC has been selected as a finalist in the 2005 Design Business Association (DBA) Design Effectiveness Awards. IDC were nominated in the Consumer Product category for the Vielle Discover Yourself™ product and the winners will be announced at the awards ceremony on Thursday 24th November at the London Trocadero.

Continue reading 24 October 2004

 

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