24th September, 2009

Strategic Product Design Workshop - Presented by Business Innovation-Design on 14 October 2009 10:00am-12:30pm at OPTIC Technium, St Asaph, North Wales

Strategic Product Design takes a holistic and multi-disciplinary approach to achieve the best possible design solution. The workshop is aimed at businesses involved in product development and design, engineering and R&D. It will set out the key processes to enable businesses to plan, develop, improve and manage their own products, as well as exploring areas such as creativity, CAD, design for manufacture, materials selection and project management.

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Business Innovation Service

A new multi-million pound programme has now been launched by the Welsh Assembly Government providing a fully integrated package of support to help businesses in Wales at the various stages of the innovation process.  Design Reality Ltd are delighted to have an active role in the part-delivery of the Design aspect of the service for North Wales.

10th April, 2009

Design Reality feature on the BBC website over the Easter Holiday, focussing on the need to reduce unnecessary packaging.  We propose a more environmentally favourable 'Eco-Egg' featured here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7990446.stm

30th March, 2009

Design Reality launch their brand new website - thanks to feedback from our clients last year, we have now re-vamped our website to include our BlogSpot and provide easier user navigation. We would like to pass on a big thank you to local developers - Pheonix Web Development  and Voodish for their expertise, we hope you enjoy the new experience..

27th March, 2009

Design Reality feature in the latest edition of 'Advances - the quarterly Journal for Science, Engineering and Technology in Wales'. The article focusses on the design work undertaken for the AV3500 Advanced Respirator to protect U.S firefighters from smoke inhalation.  

You can find the article here: http://www.ibwales.com/upload/pdf/AW59_final_web.pdf

15th January, 2009

Delving through the many design-related membership organisations across the U.K, Design Reality have always recognised the ever-growing presence of the British Design Innovation (BDI) - the representative voice to industry of established strategic designers operating in the innovation space. It is concerned with the engagement of strategic design as the glue binding innovation together. Read more...

14th November, 2008

Congratulations to Chris Gardiner for recently completing his Chartered Institute of Marketing Professional Diploma, this follows 2 years of distance learning/self-study and has set Chris on the path to complete his Masters and final Chartership.

1st September, 2008

North Wales based Design Reality Ltd, a leading Product Design Consultancy has just been awarded the Investor in People Standard, joining over 55,000 organisations in the UK, all committed to setting a level of good practice for improving business performance through making the most of their most valuable asset – their people.
 
Commenting on the award, Managing Director Troy Baker said “We are delighted to have gained the Investor’s award, all of our team’s hard work and commitment has paid off and can now be officially recognised and promoted into the wider community. As we are already ISO9001 accredited, the process has not caused any undue strain on daily business activity and it’s great to see that we are clearly doing things the right way. We are now committed to maintain and improve our performance against the standards”.

1st August, 2008

Design Reality continue to grow at a steady rate, yet again it’s time to welcome further members to the team.

We are happy to receive the following people into our company:  Oliver (Ollie) Gleeson and Sean Austerberry. You can catch a brief glimpse of their profiles on the Team page.
 
We would like to welcome our new colleagues, and wish them all an enjoyable and fulfilling experience at Design Reality.