Have you been watching the The Big Fix on BBC 2? Because we love it. If you haven't (which you really should), here's the show in a nutshell. It's reached far and wide across the UK to create a team of 8 design superheros. The group is compiled of leading industrial and computer engineers, designers […]
We love taking the time to catch up with our past clients, to see how they are getting on in the industry, and selling the product that was once just an idea on paper. We got back in touch with Declan McDonnell, founder of Xpanda Bra, when we heard that they won the BizzieBaby Gold […]
Innovate sponsored an associate prize for the New Designers Show 2018: Innovate – helping inventors Ingenuity Award; with inventiveness, cleverness and commercial viability as key criteria to look out for. Alastair Swanwick, MD; Alex Bell, Senior client manager and Dan Walklin, Product designer, all judged the competition. This year, with his ‘Talon Ball Device’, Swansea […]
Six Students present their products at finals of 2018 Design Innovation in Plastics competition. Six students from universities around the UK have presented innovative new products to a panel of judges in the finals of the 2018 Design Innovation in Plastics (DIP) competition. From an original submission of more than 140 entries, the six finalists […]
We are delighted that Innovate clients have appeared on the Channel 4 show ‘Buy It Now’. The show is for inventors who are given just 90 seconds to demonstrate their product to a panel of buyers in the hope of securing a potentially life-changing order with a national retailer. Caboost.co.uk Sue and Steve Spaven got […]
The Innovate team had the privilege of being invited to a special event at the House of Commons Thursday 26th April, to celebrate World IP Day and the 25th anniversary of IPAN. IPAN is the Intellectual Property Awareness Network, a non-profit organisation that is committed to improve the understanding of Intellectual Property (IP) in the […]
Alastair meets promotional robot "Kalia" at the show where he spoke to individual inventors and companies launching their new product ideas. The Vietnam Expo provides an opportunity to explore future collaborations with buyers and manufacturers from Vietnam, Russia, Korea, China and Japan. http://vietnamexpo.com.vn/en
Bringing a new product to market involves a lot of hard work and making a number of important decisions. One of the biggest of these is whether you want to start a new company to manufacture the invention yourself or you want to enter into a licensing deal with a third party who can help […]
Winner of the Innovate Ingenuity Award “The level of talent at the New Designers Show this year was outstanding” said Innovate Managing Director, Alastair Swanwick. From portable washing machines for refugees to vibrating motion sensors for blind people, the creative ingenuity required to think outside the box was truly exceptional. Nevertheless, one invention stood out from […]
What is the Design Innovation in Plastics Award? Design Innovation in Plastics Award - the longest running student plastics design award in Europe - recognises significant innovation in design from young, gifted undergraduate design students. This year, Innovate Product Design attended the Award to support the designers exhibiting at the competition. The Design Innovation in Plastics […]