How do I react to a generic, blanket email from someone looking for a job as a product designer? Emails asking for a favour and with very little thought behind them tend to get a similar (usually internal…) response from me. If you’d like some feedback – on the plus side I quite liked the […]

As we reach the tail end of 2017, you’d struggle to find someone that would openly present a good argument against the UK carrier bag tax. It’s hard to ignore the effectiveness of such a charge. Making consumers pay a measly 5p for a carrier bag reduced their usage by over 85% in the first […]

In light of one of our longstanding product designers Rob leaving, Realise Design we had one last secret social for him planned. On the morning of our long-kept secret, our fellow intern Callum enlightened us to the disasters of the Velodrome, explicitly crashes and injuries. Thanks Callum. With most of us having the thought of […]

Well, here I am. Six months into my role at Realise Product Design, Bristol. Realise is nestled at the side of Temple Meads train station. The studio is a brilliant little environment for design thinking. The design studio sits within a huddle of other studios with activity not dissimilar to a bee-hive. A great thing about […]

Sir Jonathan Paul “Jony” Ive, KBE (born 27 February 1967), is an English industrial designer who is currently the chief design officer (CDO) of Apple and chancellor of the Royal College of Art in London. While working for a design firm in London he was asked by Apple, then a struggling company, to create a look for a new laptop. He took the design to Apple and was […]