A low-energy infill dwelling in London and a pink coastal residence in East Sussex are among 20 homes vying to win RIBA‘s House of the Year for 2022.
Bestowed annually by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), the House of the Year prize celebrates the best one-off architect-designed houses or extensions in the UK.
The Associate Parliamentary Design and Innovation Group, a forum for open debate between Parliament and the UK’s design and innovation communities, has published its newest term paper. APDIG proposes that design is suffering from a PR problem, which leaves it misunderstood and undervalued by government, underused by business, and misrepresented in the media. Read more
As part of our Autumn season of innovation nights at the CICCIC in Taunton Somerset Innovation + Design and CICCIC are hosting a Pecha Kucha style, high octane, high entertainment presentation platform promoting recent innovations in 3D design such as ‘augmented reality’, online marketing, 3D mapping, product and service development and the ‘state of the art’ in 3D software. Read more
27th February 2014 From 10.00am – 4.00pm. Free event.
Grrrrrr! A FREE event to help you tackle your packaging demons. Packaging can be a beast of a problem, right? Not anymore.
Taming the Monster is a FREE event that will help you to put your packaging demons to bed. Read more
The Design Council has put together a short film highlighting the value of design in innovation, particularly for small businesses. As the film makes clear, design isn’t just about ‘shiny gadgets or a new logo’, but rather it’s a powerful tool that can help businesses to increase their productivity and competitiveness. Read more
Somerset Innovation + Design is pleased to support and be part of VisLab.
‘Vis Lab’ is a group of highly specialised online 3D visualisers who enjoy meeting and discussing the most up to date developments in their field of specialism i.e. augmented reality, virtual and physical prototyping, architectural mapping, online 3D graphics and marketing, software and hardware interaction and applications, video and animation and innovative project development. Read more
Silicon Beach 2013 brings together the UK’s leading strategic thinkers, digital innovators and people who look at brands, their challenges and the challenges of the 21st century from a slightly different perspective. Read more
Forbe’s reports Adobe’s announcement that its Creative Suite of software applications would, in future, only be available via a cloud-based subscription plan has caused an outcry as artistic types the world over feel forced into making a perpetual commitment to Adobe. Read more
The creative industries are growing sectors that continue to provide more jobs and add increasing value to products and services. Moreover, creative industries have a positive spillover effect on more traditional industries improving growth and innovation. These industries hold a great potential but the creative entrepreneurs often lack insights and business competences needed to realize this potential. That is why there is a need for a competition such as Creative Business Cup that can improve the business skills and the number of successful companies in the creative industries. Read more