Dezign Buzz Competition

Yay! We have a special mention in the Develop3D ‘Design Buzz’ competition for our bee-buddy smoker design! 🙂

Radius Creative in the press…

Nice article on us in the Halifax Courier, our local newspaper…

Movember!

Hi,

It’s Movember, the month formerly known as November, now dedicated to growing moustaches and raising awareness and funds for men’s health; specifically prostate and testicular cancer. I’m donating my top lip to the cause for 30 days in an effort to help change the face of men’s health. My Mo will spark conversations, and no doubt generate some laughs; all in the name of raising vital awareness and funds for cancer’s affecting men.

Why am I concerned about men’s health?
*1 in 9 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime
*This year 37,000 new cases of the disease will be diagnosed
*1 in 2 men will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime
*26% of men are less likely to go the doctor compared to women

I invite you to join me by registering to grow or by donating to my support of the Mo http://mobro.co/mikewillshaw

If you want to go old school you can write a cheque payable to “Movember”, reference my name and Registration Number 2143906 and send it to: Movember Europe, PO Box 68600, London, EC1P 1EF

Funds raised will help make a tangible difference to the lives of others. Through the Movember Foundation and our men’s health partners, The Prostate Cancer Charity and The Institute of Cancer Research, Movember is funding world class awareness, research, educational and support programs which would otherwise not be possible.

For more details on how the funds raised from previous campaigns have been used and the impact Movember is having please click on the links below:
About Movember
Prostate cancer genome mapping
Prostate Cancer Foundation research
Global Action Plan

Thank you in advance for helping me change the face of men’s health.

Mike.

The brand hijackers

Ok, so you’re a household name. A big brand like… Let’s say ‘Electrolux’.

Being so successful, you will probably want to guard and protect the brand image you’ve built up over the years. God knows it’s cost enough to get to where you are.

Then, some student comes up with an idea so awful and badly thought out they should never have been let onto a design course in the first place. But hey, they can use a rendering package so rather than just sketch it out and then disregard it, they build up a model in 3D cad, render it up so it looks like a real product and before plastering it all over the internet, they put your brand on it! (check it out!)

If you were a company passing off your goods as someone else’s, you would be going from concept to courtroom faster than you could say infringement.

But for some reason it’s ok to do this if you’re a student. What’s more, the tutors don’t seem to mind.
Maybe in the past it was considered unimportant as the concept rarely got past the students degree shows. These days however with the power of the internet, the concept can be broadcast globally. Who’s to say that people don’t realise it’s just a concept or that it actually has nothing to do with the brand. Bad design made to look like real products confuses the customer base. People associate these concepts with the brand. Unless these companies nip this in the bud, they may get a few shocks.