Last week I spoke at the Injectable Drug Delivery International Conference on the essential link between ethnographic research, human factors engineering and risk management in injection device development, a subject close to my heart. We come across many medical companies that engage in ‘over the fence R&D’, a process that can, and does, lead to gaps in device development.

This week I have been mostly thinking about the colour yellow.

Needing something to get you through this Friday? Check out some the links that have been flying around the PDD studio this week.

The weathered old man approached me in one of the impossibly difficult to find grocery shops in Havana. Though he spoke no English, he communicated through body language and fierce pointing that he had a small, hungry baby at home and that I should buy him the outrageously priced powdered milk.

It’s Friday. But you know that already. What you might not know is that Friday means that we share with you the links that get sent and shared here in the PDD studio. Enjoy!

Instead of commenting on what’s new and interesting, I prefer to simply download a few observations and thoughts that occurred whilst in Geneva this year. The Geneva show is typically where most of the Car Design Community agree to catch up and get a snapshot of where the world’s automakers are at this point in […]

A/W ’11 is predominantly seen as the darker, more subdued season, calming down after a summer of outlandish dressing. But in a way only London Fashion Week could get away with, a subdivision of designers are turning their backs on the norm – probably as a result of this endless winter! This season saw a […]

Last week PDD was at London Fashion Week to see what the best of the British fashion world was showcasing for their Autumn/Winter 2011 collections. Catwalk fashion’ has a heavy influence on popular consumer culture, which is often reflected in how design trends manifest in the everyday products that we buy. While this influence can be […]

Lots of links flew around the studio this week, here are a few… enjoy!

Our trusty design duo, Jamie Buckley and Tristram Keech, were our eyes and ears at this years CES, taking away some great thoughts, inspiration and pictures. Now we know CES was a little while ago, but as our blog has only just been launched we had to wait a little while to publish these gems.

Lovely links of the week…

As we exited the registration hall at CES 2011, we were handed a hefty book called ‘Screen Future’. We were jet-lagging and very tempted to ‘recycle’ it quickly as we weren’t too keen to lug this heavy tome around with us. But by the end of the day we were glad we had hung onto our copies as the debate about ‘TV and the other screens in our lives’ was bubbling away furiously inside the Las Vegas Convention Centre.

Every week I’ll be sharing some things that I think are interesting, beautiful, funny or just lovely, from the world of design, art and architecture. I will try not to make it too much of a personal wish list, but if you are wondering what to get me for Christmas…

Last week I went up to Birmingham NEC to visit the Interior 2011 show. Firstly, it’s no Milan when it comes to looking at cutting edge trends in furniture , but that is not really the point of the show. Instead it is a chance for us, at PDD, to see how some of the trends we talk about are being rolled out into mainstream interior design.

Today I was looking for information on trainers that have a pump in the tongue. I wasn’t sure what the pump did exactly so I turned to YouTube in the hope of finding a video demonstration.

This is a  short video PDD put together to celebrate our thirty years in the business. Here’s to thirty more. PDD // 30 Years of Innovation from PDDInnovation on Vimeo.

On returning from my local corner shop with a bottle of milk, I laid out the tools required to formulate the perfect cup of tea: kettle-on, sugar-out, mug selected , tea bag dumped. Tea making has become so habitual, it’s something that’s assumed to be done with ease by all.

Because of what I do, I spend a lot of time thinking about cultural differences. Whilst travelling recently, a simple procedure at an airport challenged my perceptions of how “culturally-sensitive” I really am, and got me thinking about the interconnectedness of modesty, security, and human rights.

Both work and personal life regularly take me to Copenhagen’s principal airport, Kastrup. Unlike many airports, Kastrup is one of the few that I actually look forward to passing through, to the extent that on a number of occasions, I have actually tried my best to arrive early, just to spend more time there.