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BDI Hot Topics

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No more them or us!

In an interview for Engineering Designer, IED Chairman David Maffin and BDI Chairman Gus Desbarats discuss the changing roles of engineering and industrial designers and how the IED can help facilitate better collaboration between the two.

Member and industry news

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Engine Service Design develop customer service strategy for home buying

Skanska Residential Development UK, the newly created residential arm of Skanska construction, approached BDI member Engine Service Design to research and design the end-to-end customer journey for the purchase of homes in their new UK development.

Andy Davey to lead DCA’s consumer product offer

Andy is a multi-award-winning industrial designer with more than twenty five years international product development experience. Prior to joining BDI member DCA, he worked for three years as Consultant Creative Director ID Europe for global telecoms...

Thought leadership

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Should we be concerned about a shortage of Rare Earth Elements?

Although there has been a lot of attention in the media recently, Rob Bell, Team leader for Process Commercialisation at BDI member C-Tech Innovation, believes that we are not in danger of running out, if we act to utilise our resources more...

There’s nothing worse than ‘fiddling’ in the dark!

In this BDI thought leadership piece Adele Graham-King, Smallfry’s Business Development Executive, talks about making medical devices more intuitive after being woken up in the night by her 3 year old daughter who has asthma and often needs her...

University Design Industry Partnership (UDIP)

The BDI University Design Industry Partnership (UDIP) is the first formal alliance of its kind in the UK. It was created in May 2010 to benefit BDI and University members and the UK economy as whole, and to improve and develop collaborative activities in support of design and innovation. Our partnership seeks to bring the industrial design community and academia closer together to forge stronger links to address a number of issues affecting the growth and quality of the design industry.

Dates for your diary

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Designs of the Year 2013
Mar
20
Location: Design Museum, London
The Designs of the Year awards, from the Design Museum, ‘The Oscars of the design world'...
Birmingham Made Me Design Expo 2013
Jun
06
Location: Millenium Point, Birmingham
Birmingham Made Me Design Expo celebrates the iconic brands and products made in the Midlands....

BDI Partners

TCT Show + Personalize
TCT Show + Personalize is the UK’s definitive and leading Additive Manufacturing, 3D printing and product development technology show for every level of interest from hackerspace to aerospace. The eighteenth edition of this exciting event will take place in Birmingham, UK in September 2013.

The exhibition floor features the entire spectrum of 3D printing and additive manufacturing equipment as well as all the supporting technologies and software for scanning, digitising and inspection and for design and manufacturing. The show has a reputation for promoting the latest in 3D design and manufacturing technology to the widest audience possible.
New Designers 2013
New Designers is the exhibition for emerging design.

Taking place over two weeks, with eight distinct design zones and two prestigious Awards Evenings, New Designers is the UK's most important graduate design exhibition, full of innovation and fresh thinking.
The show sees over 3,000 of the most talented, newly graduated designers from the UK's leading universities come together to showcase the future of design and creativity.

Commission, recruit and buy directly from the future of British design before it hits the high street. Visit Part 1 for textiles, jewellery, ceramics and more and Part 2 for design ranging from furniture and products to illustration and motion arts.
Plastics Industry Awards 2013
Launched in 2001 the Plastics Industry Awards are known as the Oscars of the UK plastics industry. Eight hundred plastic professionals and their guests attended last year’s black-tie awards ceremony to see Magmatic win Consumer Product of the year for the Trunki, Nathan Bestwick named Young Designer of the Year and F-Board win the Industrial Product Design category. Sponsored by Engel, HiTech Robotics and Automation, Lawson Keys, Agentdraw, BMB, Distrupol, Hasco. Nexeo Solutions and Summit Systems, the Plastics Industry Awards also enjoy the support of the British Plastics Federation, British Design Innovation, GTMA, The Institute of Materials Minerals and Mining (IOM3), PTIC and the Plastics Design & Moulding exhibition
The Design Business Association (DBA)
The Design Business Association (DBA) was founded in 1986 to promote professional excellence within the design industry. Our membership consists of over 400 design consultancies and design-led businesses throughout the UK, including many of the brightest and most respected names.
New Design
New Design is the magazine covering the products and processes of design in all its forms. Combining an experienced editorial team and contributions from major industry figures, New Design has established itself as a must-read for anybody connected with the design world. We work hard to gather the most important stories affecting the industry in the UK and worldwide. Constantly striving to improve our coverage, we are committed to bringing you the lowdown on the people, products and issues that are shaping the design industry today.
Eureka Magazine
For over 30 years, Eureka has been synonymous with engineering innovation and technology transfer, constantly evolving to suit the times and to deliver its readers and advertisers a market-leading brand that doesn’t just begin and end with a print product. Eureka has a proven, targeted and intensively-researched audience of design engineers and, as our reader survey outlined in the media pack demonstrates, they are purchasers with the budget, the authority and the desire to spend. What is more it demonstrates that Eureka influences where they spend. Eureka is the “must-use” promotional brand for anyone trying to reach engineering design decision makers.
The TCT Magazine - Software & Technology for Product Development & Manufacturing.
tct is a portfolio that includes a printed magazine, website, exhibition and conference that has, over 20 years, become the de facto source of information for Additive Manufacturing and Industrial 3D Printing in product development, engineering and manufacturing. More than this, tct is a community of users, experts, vendors, consultants and thought leaders that is growing the AM and 3D Printing industry for all.
Technology Strategy Board
The UK's innovation agency: Innovation is vital for business growth.
Our aim is simple - to accelerate economic growth by stimulating and supporting business-led innovation.

How? By being a catalyst; by highlighting opportunities; by connecting partners and networks and by funding - helping businesses of every size to transform great ideas into the growth products and services of tomorrow.
GTMA l Supporting Manufacturing Excellence
GTMA represents leading companies in tool making, rapid product development, metrology, precision machining and tooling technologies and is a focus for technology transfer, business support and provides marketing opportunities through sector events, publications and extensive website at www.gtma.co.uk. GTMA is an essential resource in providing technology, procurement and supply chain initiatives. We provide, through our associated company the Manufacturing Resource Centre, supply chain and engineering solutions to the tier one manufacturing companies in the aerospace, automotive, medical, energy, marine, packaging and electronics industries.