edapt, an independent organisation providing employment advice and legal support for teachers, has been launched successfully with help from BDI member live|work.

As part of their on-going relationship with Samsung UK, BDI member Dalziel + Pow were tasked with delivering a new Samsung shop-in-shop experience for Selfridges’ London technology department.

The Horners Award for Plastics Design and Innovation 2012 has been won by an obstetric training device jointly developed by BDI member Brightworks and Limbs and Things.

Following a wave of popular accolades for Paralympic athletes, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) says revolutionary new prosthetic technologies will not only improve the lives of disabled people worldwide, but will also unleash ethical difficulties for sporting regulators.

BDI member C-Tech Innovation has developed a new workshop in partnership with the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Environmental Sustainability and Chemistry Innovation Knowledge Transfer Networks (KTNs).

Adding to its recent Plimsoll Award for Outstanding Company for 2012, BDI member DCA Design International has received The Queen’s Award for Enterprise for its achievements in international trade.

Bill Moggridge, creator of the first laptop computer and more recently director of the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, has died aged 69 following a long battle with cancer.

Taking place from the 10th to 11th October 2012 at the Jaguar Exhibition Hall, Ricoh Arena, Coventry, the Engineering Design Show is the only event of its kind catering specifically to the needs of design engineers in the mechanical, electromechanical and electronic fields.

In an article in New Design Alistair Williamson, BDI National Board Director and MD of Lucid Innovation, proposes that the credibility of design as a profession could benefit from a return to a time when practitioners were prepared to design anything.

BDI member Creative Barcode celebrates its 2nd anniversary with the launch of Intellectual Property Rights Reserved and Free-Use identifiers for work displayed on the internet, at exhibitions, in print, reaching up to 2 Billion internet users worldwide