often simple design is the best design
The weekend saw the introduction of the new Gu Christmas Bauble Range which we designed – our simplest project this year. Gu already knew what they wanted and just needed it “Realised”.
It started with a (more…)
We are very pleased to announce that we have taken on a new member to the design team, junior designer James Eelbeck.
James comes to us with a 1st Class Honours Degree from UWE in Product Design Innovation, as well as winning awards such as “Innovator of the Year 2009″ for packaging innovation, and an RSA award for the category “Make Something Disappear”, which was a brief focussed towards sustainability. James’ winning product was an energy saving toaster entitled ‘Love Toast’, which saves the consumer time and money by reducing the energy used to toast their bread.
We are delighted to have James on board to team up with Gary and Andrew to ensure our design solutions for our customers remain fresh and energetic for many more years to come!
The Realise team is growing, and we are ever ready to receive your briefs, whatever the challenge!
We always start our day with a nice cup of hot brown nectar to get the creative juices going. Today we received our new flavours of clipper tea to try. Not only do we love the tea clipper produce we also love the branding and packaging; Fun, honest, natural and giving you the sense of real local tea. Great job guys, we will keep you updated on which is our favourite.
At the medical device usability seminar there was a very interesting talk given by Beverly Norris of the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA). Beverly’s talk was a good introduction to ours as she highlighted the extent to which bad design in medical devices can result in serious (more…)
Variety is the spice of life, as they say, and there is nothing to keep our creative minds buzzing than mixing up our exposure to a variety of sectors.
Seawork always proves to be inspiring and exciting, and with Andrew Redman’s naval architecture background, it is always going to be something Realise holds close to its heart (more…)
We are searching for a new product design hero to come with us on the next level of Realise Product Design‘s journey.
If you are an ambitious, talented and experienced middleweight product designer, or know one, then get in touch! A challenging and exciting future awaits you here… This is an opportunity of a lifetime to join a growing consultancy just as it’s beginning to really take off. You could get in somewhere that you could really make a difference to a company and to the world – alongside a good team who want to take it as far as they can! But as a key player in this story – you’re going to have to be good!
All details of the position are in the link below, and we’ll be looking until 24th June.
If the CV hasn’t arrived by then, it’ll miss the boat, so please spread the word!
http://www.realisedesign.co.uk/jobs.php
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Come over and take a look – we look forward to seeing you in the social network!
Did you watch the London Marathon this year? You may have noticed some really great shots from Vortex – which was positioned at the end of The Mall, in front of Buckingham Palace. Vortex was capturing shots of the runners approaching the corner and then it dropped down as it followed them round the corner and filmed them from ground level looking straight down The Mall. With the lovely sunny weather it really shows what great shots Vortex can produce.
Here’s the view from the top:
You can WATCH IT HERE for the next few days at least… iPlayer will nuke this pretty soon I am sure so I appologise for the loss of link when this happens… 
For those of you who don’t know Vortex is a 30m carbon composite TV camera mast that can do ground to 30m tracking shots in 15 seconds. It is compact and trailer-able behind a Land Rover. It rigs in under 10 minutes, which is unheard of for most broadcast TV camera masts or towers. Realise were the CAD designers and helped Matthew from Cammotion put together the technical team that carried out all the engineering product development and prototyping on the award winning Vortex.
Cammotion’s Vortex Camera Mast were used for the opening tower block shots in a new film “Attack the Block”. The film by the producers of Shaun of the Dead, is based in a London housing Estate invaded by really nasty aliens. And somehow it falls to the local teen gang to sort them out. It has just been screened at the US Film Festival, South By Southwest and went down a storm. UK release date is 17th May. Here’s the preview trailer:
The Realise trio spent a fantastic morning out last week with the staff and students of Britford and Odstock Primary Schools in Salisbury.
The two schools are merging and from September the new school will be known as Longford Primary; so to accompany the new name, a new logo was needed and this is where we came in. Due to Andrew’s strong links with the school, we were the ideal candidates for the task and we decided to use the creativity and imagination of the children to help us with the brief of re branding their new school.
We planned the session well and produced a range of resources to help us with our lesson. We had a few worries that our pitch would not be suitable, however the young scholars understood the task extremely well and they produced a wide range of ideas that were both original and imaginative. (more…)
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