SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco has remained one of our favorite locations for research. Its a hub of cutting edge individuals as well as offering plenty of interesting things to discover and do. Seymourpowell design researcher Sonia Wang names a few finds from a recent research trip that made her the envy of many back in [...]
Seymourpowell is pleased to announce details of its design for the Growbag Waterer and Flexi Spray from leading European manufacturer of gardening products, Hozelock. The Growbag Waterer, which launched in 2013, automatically waters growbag plants for 2 weeks without needing to be refilled; while the Flexi Spray, which also launched in 2013, has tripled sales [...]
By Sarah Johnson, design researcher at Seymourpowell. As we enter into the age of the information economy, ‘Big Data’ has become big news. No matter what problem we need to solve, ‘Big Data’ will have the answers. It will help us be healthier, greener, smarter, more efficient and most importantly happier. Yet no one really [...]
Seymourpowell was lucky enough to secure the talents of professional portrait photographer, Rosie Collins, to come and take a new set of corporate and staff photographs. The whole team are thrilled with Rosie’s work, which has perfectly captured the rich and vibrant mix of staff working at Seymourpowell as well as the energy around the [...]
‘Chicken Nugget Deluxe,’ the tenth video in this ‘Design Insights’ series, features Richard Seymour, co-founder and design director of Seymourpowell, speaking about how his personal definition of design is making things better for people. “Everything I do starts with people, their emotional needs and their physical needs,” Seymour says, “and draws the technology or the [...]
Discover how designers sit at the forefront of packaging sustainability design in this Industry Intelligence webinar with Chris Sherwin, head of sustainability at Seymourpowell, on May 15, 2013 Industry Intelligence Inc., a market intelligence and information management company serving the forest products, packaging, and food and beverage industries, today announced it will offer a webinar [...]
Image Source In the March/April edition of Interior Design Today, Seymourpowell design & CMF researcher Chloe Amos-Edkins discusses furnishing trends form far-flung places. In the UK we have a long history of mixing and matching inspiration from cultures from around the globe and assimilating it into our interior furnishings style. Today is no exception – [...]
New counter mount and tap design showcasing the ‘magic behind the gates’ of Guinness. Seymourpowell is pleased to announce details of its design of the new on-bar livery for Diageo brand Guinness. The Global rollout commenced in November 2012 in the UK and Ireland. The design language for the project, which aims to deliver cohesive [...]
Seymourpowell senior designer Laurence Willmott has a step-by-step guide on how to create your best design portfolio. Back in 2003, when I attended the product design course interview at Ravensbourne College, I carried an A2 leather folder under my arm. Inside were numerous pieces of paper of varying sizes, and included things like charcoal drawings [...]
Whilst the world experiences a financial recession, we are also seeing a surge in affordable materials technologies. In this edition of Seymourpowell TV, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs discusses the role of inexpensive 3D printing and 3D scanning in product design. Fairs also shows us a real-life example of a 3D scanned and 3D printed object: [...]
