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Internship experiences, barriers to working class designers entering the industry and what was you obsessed with when you were 6?

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Brad Harper - Founder / Design Truth
Wyn Jones - Principal Consultant / PDD
James Wood - Founder / Studio Wood


James grew up working class and under conditions unfamiliar to most industrial designers. In his younger years he experienced domestic violence, physical and emotional abuse, addiction and instability. He grew up with his mother and brother at times living in social housing and eating from food banks to get by.

Since entering the industry, he’s found that almost no one shares his origins, and is now passionate about helping others from working-class origins enter the industry. We spoke to him to understand his perspective on the issue.

Growth mindset, vulnerable leaders & creating positive habits.

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Brad Harper - Founder / Design Truth
Wyn Jones - Principal Consultant / PDD
Susan Walbrook / Life Coach

For more on Susan, visit www.thecreativespacecoaching.com 

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.

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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.uk

For more on Asad & Nolii, take a listen to his full episode on Design Truth.

https://nolii.com/
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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-Manager

For 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.

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To be involved in a future episode of design truth, drop a message to hello@designtruth.co.uk

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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/MadeByParallel

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/designtruth
http://www.inneo.co.uk/designtruth

To be involved in a future episode of design truth, drop a message to hello@designtruth.co.uk

Alex 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/designtruth
https://www.inneo.co.uk/designtruth

To 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.

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For 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.

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If you want to be on a future episode of design truth, contact us on hello@designtruth.co.uk

Thank you.