Talk Design Live '22

27.05.22

Talk Design Live 2022

The Bangor University Product Design Showcase & Design conference

Pontio Bangor 09:00>16:00

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Welcome to Talk Design Live 2022

Nothing stands still, everything changes!

Change number 1

New School

The Product Design undergraduate course and the Masters in Applied Innovation Design has found a new home and family since September 2021. We are now part of the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering. Thank you to all the staff and students who have welcomed us into their midst. We are excited about being a part of the school and are looking forward to further collaboration and development.

Change number 2

New location soon There are plans afoot to move our workshop to a more central location. We can’t say much more than this at this point in time – but watch this space.

Change number 3

New name ‘Talk Design Live’.

What was the Bangor Design Conference has now been reborn as

Having adapted our conference to a series of online talks due to an event which kept us all in our homes for a while over the last few years (most available on our Youtube channel) we thought it would be a good idea to keep the name for this event.

What hasn’t changed

What today is about.

Whilst change is happening all around us, we can be confident in the fact that the mission and purpose of this event remains constant.

Talk Design Live is an event for creative professionals, change makers and budding designers. Experience leading edge design philosophy, as our home grown, best friends and internationally acclaimed visionaries share their insights for future design and how to make change happen.

Timed to coincide with the opening of the Bangor University Design Degree Show the conference kicks off a weekend festival of design celebration – a time to enjoy student success and collaborative ventures.

Design success relies on knowing what’s happening out there in the world, our guest speakers, once again, share with us, challenge us, inspire us to aspire to make a difference – they show us how it’s done, how it influences lives and how good design process implemented with care, commitment and creativity drives emotional, cultural, and behavioural change.

Sit back, switch on and engage with this year’s

Talk Design Live!

LIST OF SPEAKERS & ORDER OF DAY Speakers Companies Welcome Eleanor Beer Jude Pullen Stephen Griffiths Tea Break Victoria Rushton Sam Guest Daniel Andrews Lunch Sam Gwilt Jon Marshall

Sketch artist AYD Gerallt Evans Metalcraft Protolabs Flare audio Sam Does Design Pentagram

Following the event everybody is invited to the official opening of the Design Degree Show in PL2

Eleanor Beer

eleanorbeer.com

Sketch artist Eleanor Beer is an International Graphic Facilitator based in South Wales UK, who specialises in delivering visual solutions and training services to a range of local, national and international clients. Her core aim is to simplify communications through visuals storytelling, helping organisations to become more efficient and creative thinkers and collaborators.

In the last 15 years, Eleanor has supported global brands across three continents, from Williams F1, Siemens and The World Health Organisation, to small grass root charities, social care initiatives and local community groups, all with one core aim: to put people at the heart of everything they do.

As a visual communications specialist, Eleanor combines her drawing and active listening skills - along with her facilitation experience- to graphically record key messages at events and conferences; and working with her team of associates, she also helps companies to communicate their strategies and journeys using digitally rich pictures.

A fluent Welsh speaker, Eleanor provides all her services in English and Welsh, and also enjoys training individuals and organisations on how to think and work more visually via her interactive, person-centred workshops.

Jude Pullen

judepullen.com

Winner of the 2020 Alastair Graham-Bryce “Imagineering” Award (IMechE), Jude thrives in high risk collaborations, uncertainty and pressure - drawing from global networks and experiences to deliver high profile campaigns and digital/physical products. His commercial work is a mixture of insights, strategy, and rapid beta testing in new markets.

Recently, he curated an ambitious Webinar Series, and Training Hackathon in collaboration with ProtoLabs on Design & Sustainability, featuring 20+ lectures, and Roundtable debates globally - selected to be featured at COP26.

A leading Creative Technologist & Physical Prototyping Expert, Jude has worked for NHS, Dyson, LEGO, and a number of start-ups. He is one of the eight featured inventors in BBC Two’s Big Life Fix documentary series that helps people with disabilities through technology and design. He has also worked alongside Sir David Jason - fabricating replicas of Great British Inventions from household materials, and flying rockets for Channel 4. His RadioGlobe has received many accolades, from Core77 to FastCo.

STEPHEN GRIFFITHS

ayd.uk.com

AYD Ltd. Global Height Safety Solutions AYD has evolved from its sister companies dating back to 1984 to become a leader in the design of height safety, incorporating descent and rescue equipment for a World audience. AYD Engineers, Designers and Technicians enjoy the challenge of developing a solution and taking that from initial concept, through prototyping and testing into a manufactured product.

AYD continue to invest in people, technology, and resources in order that our position as a leading innovator of products can be maintained, to secure a safer World for all our clients and users.

At AYD we believe that by adopting a concept to manufacture approach and placing this at the very heart of the design process, utilize the latest technology at each stage.

Encompassing our in-house 3D printing and modelling capability, in house testing for static and dynamic performance in conjunction with other in-house design, we can provide the complete solution.

VICTORIA RUSHTON

Gerallt Evans Metalcraft Company Director at Gerallt Evans Metalcraft, who are an artisan metal fabrication company, fusing traditional metal work with modern technology and manufacturing to create completely bespoke, luxury items.

Formerly Tan Lan Metalworks, started in 2004 by Gerallt Evans whose work can be seen all over North Wales from the sword at Llanberis, the giant in Greenwood Forest Park, a large collection of works at Betws y Coed station to name a very small selection of works.

2021 saw the business change from Tan Lan Metalworks to the newly named Gerallt Evans Metalcraft Ltd. The company has a passion for creating high quality, bespoke products with sustainability at the core and showcasing creativity and craftsmanship based here in North Wales! The company designs, engineers and fabricates luxury, bespoke items that last lifetimes with a drive to reduce waste and promote long product life cycles.

Samuel Guest

protolabs.co.uk

PROTOLABS With a background in engineering, sales and manufacturing, Sam is an integral member of the European Product Management Team at Protolabs.

He is responsible for continually evolving the injection moulding offer so Protolabs can assist end-users by providing an optimal service.

Sam’s expertise reaches beyond the core services and is applied to the development and integration of wider applications, improving the suite of the Protolabs proposition.

DANIEL ANDREWS

FLARE AUDIO LTD I am a 2020 graduate of Product Designer Bangor. Since graduating I have tried to improve my skills as a designer; be that through taking freelance opportunities or simply doing weekly online design tasks. This determination to develop my skills lead me to getting my first design job at Flare Audio as a product designer.

SAM GWILT

samdoes.design

SAM DOES DESIGN Sam is an industrial designer with an eclectic mix of skills. He graduated Brunel University London and worked for Paul Cocksedge Studio, specialising in bespoke lighting installations and exhibitions internationally. He worked at design consultancy Precipice Design for three years before a recent transition to LAYER. He also runs an Instagram and YouTube channel - sam_ does_design - where he shares industry tips with the design community.

JON MARSHALL

pentagram.com

PENTAGRAM

Jon Marshall is an industrial designer whose work fuses product design with strategy, branding, packaging and digital experiences. He graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1996 and began his professional career working for Ross Lovegrove before moving to Pentagram, where he worked as a designer for Daniel Weil. In 2003 he joined Barber Osgerby as Studio Director and developed some of the studio’s iconic furniture and product designs including the London 2012 Olympic Torch.

In 2012 together with Barber & Osgerby he co-founded and directed industrial design consultancy Map, where he created products and user experiences for some of the most innovative companies in the world including global brands like Google, Virgin Atlantic, Honda and IBM as well as ambitious startups like Kano, BleepBleeps and Sam Labs.

In 2018 he joined Pentagram’s London office as a partner where his work overlaps with the graphic design, branding and art direction of other Pentagram partners. Notable projects include the design of an immersive exhibition for UNIQLO LifeWear Day, generative hardware design for semiconductor company Graphcore and the design of Yoto Player, an interactive speaker for children, which was listed as one of Time Magazine’s best inventions of 2020.

His interest lies in working with abstract and emerging technologies, creating accessible user experiences and sustainability.

ROBERT CHIVERS ©

FOR STUDENTS WHO MEAN BUSINESS! Did you know that Bangor University owns a Science Park, called M-SParc? It’s a place for people to start up and run their businesses or to explore an idea. ▶ Get the support to develop that idea that you have. ▶ Events for anyone from business owners to students to learn and network. ▶ Hot-Desking space; desks you can rent on a short term basis. ▶ FREE Wi-Fi (including eduroam). ▶ Business Support available at no cost for 6 months. ▶ Links to Santander start-up room; free desk space through this B-Enterprising scheme.

We know that you want to know a real person is speaking to you.

M-SParc is run by a small team of 6 people, and Emily Roberts our Marketing Officer wrote this leaflet.

This is her, and you can contact her on emily@m-sparc.com

▶ Office and Laboratory space for companies to rent. ▶ Satelite locations #OnTour in Conwy and Gwynedd, with events and access to the Ffiws Makerspace.

M-SParc’s main aim is to help create, develop and support new ventures.

If you’re a budding entrepreneur, business person, or ‘techy’, and you don’t know where to start, why not contact M-SParc and see what we can do? We’re here for you!

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WANT TO DEVELOP A BUSINESS OR SOCIAL ENTERPRISE OR BE A FREELANCER? Get a paid self-employment placement, a free desk at the Incubation space at M-SParc, expert mentoring support and access to funding for your idea!

Taking the form of a £1,300 allowance, B-Enterprising’s self-employment placements are designed to help provide a little bit of financial security to students or graduates like yourself as you start your entrepreneurial journey and begin to develop your exciting, new business ideas.

You can also receive support from our expert mentors and the chance to apply for a free incubation space at M-SParc, along with additional funding and branding support.

Message us to make your entrepreneurial dream a reality!

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