Graduate designers clean up at Soapbox Challenge
A team of Northumbria University design graduates has won this year’s Red Bull Soapbox Challenge.
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Turning design on its head
A Northumbria Design graduating student has been crowned Designer of the Year for his quirky range of upside-down mugs, double-hooked hangers and tiny stationery holders.
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First sight of innovative collaborations
Rt Hon David Willetts MP has seen cutting-edge research and business collaborations at Northumbria University’s Northern Design Centre (NDC).
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New bat pushes ‘boundary’ for disabled cricket
A cricket bat for people for disabled people has been designed by a Northumbria University student.
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Mixing it up at the V & A
A design for a hoarding which mixes up some of the best-known artefacts at the V&A has earned a Northumbria University student the title of Best of the Year in the D&AD awards.
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Work while you commute
An ‘office on rails’ for business class passengers has been designed by a Northumbria University student.
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Controlling portions at the sauce
A Northumbria University student has designed a product to help people control their food portions more easily.
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Using nature’s energy to harvest crops
A Northumbria University student’s design for a new tractor could bring down the cost of food production in the future.
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Perfect fit for breast cancer survivors
A Northumbria University student has designed a collection of attractive lingerie for women who have had mastectomies.
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Design with a difference
Design graduates and designers will be encouraged to think about the difference design can make at a Northumbria University event this month.
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Creative approach to mental health
During an eight-week placement at Tyneside Mind, Laura Warwick, a Doctoral Design Research student, applied Service Design principles and practices to redesign the delivery of the charity’s exiting services and develop a range of new mental health provision.
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Design students collaborate with industry innovators
A homecare medication box that senses and reminds the user when it is time to take their medicine, electronic sensors embedded in containers that detect whether home-cooked food is safe to eat, and counterfeit-detecting smartcards are just some of the commercial uses that Northumbria students have designed for a new technology called printable electronics.
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