Realise Design Blog

Here at Realise we are very pleased about our latest magazine fame! New Scientist has written a fantastic piece about a recent product we have been working on which we refer to as the ‘Bee Hotel’. Working alongside ML Electronics, we designed and manufactured a bee training device designed to reward groups of bees with a syrup solution when they detect particular smells.

Bees have a fantastic sense of smell and after a few hours of using the bee hotel, they learn to associate the reward with the odour. The product is currently being tested by UK biotech firm Inscentinel. Have a read of the full New Scientist article, page 19 issue 2752, or read our previous blog article about the innovation & design of the Bee Hotel.

Today we welcomed our new employee Fiona to the office. About 6 months ago Fiona approached us for advice on how to move from teaching teenagers Product Design and get ‘into’ the business of Product Design. After lots more discussion on the subject we offered Fiona the position of Business Development Manager, and fortunately she accepted. Amongst many other things, Fi will be developing new and existing client relationships, getting to grips with e-marketing and most importantly making sure that we all get paid on time! (more…)

As a young product designer, competitions are one my favourite ways of keeping current with trends whilst  sharpening my skills. Core77, a product design blog and all-round resource site, frequently posts calls for entries into a variety of creative challenges. In the last couple of months, I have put pencil to paper for two of their competitions:

Wavesport Kayaks – Boat Graphics
Nidecker Snowboards – Board Graphics

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It is very exciting to see Vortex beginning to raise it’s camera head in the news. After the team’s incredible efforts just getting the Vortex working, then throughout last year working reliably, at last there is more time to be able to talk about it.

We provided the mechanical skeleton for Matthew Gladstone’s concept, making sure there was a stable base to get the camera up smoothly. But it was Tim Oxtoby from Machinery Control Systems who was able to bring Matt’s ideas to life – and even get them under control in the end!

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