Festival of Design & Innovation 2008

11 June 2008

Come and be inspired at this year’s Festival of Design & Innovation

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Come along to our Festival of Design & Innovation and be the first to see over 170 designs and prototypes, many with commercial potential, as well as the opportunity to meet the designers face-to-face.

Our School of Design, Engineering & Computing will be hosting the Festival, held at the University’s Talbot Campus, from Friday 27 June to Monday 30 June 2008.

The event showcases the work of our talented final year students on courses in Product Design, Industrial Design, Design Engineering, Fashion & Textiles, Interior Design and Computer Aided Product Design.

Typically the event attracts over 1,500 visitors, including talent scouts from the BBC's Dragon's Den and high profile companies including the likes of Dyson.

The Festival launches with a preview evening on Thursday 26 June, when the President of The Institution of Engineering Designers, Professor Geoff Kirk, will be giving the keynote speech.

Professor Geoff Kirk has a career spanning over 40 years, more than 30 of which have been spent as Chief Civil Aerospace Engineer at Rolls-Royce.

He was awarded the British Bronze Medal in 1998 by the Royal Aeronautical Society and was appointed a Royal Designer for Industry in the same year that he was awarded the Institution’s Gerald Frewer Memorial Trophy.

The event will be open to the general public, free of charge, at the following times:

Friday 27 June 10am – 4pm
Saturday 28 June 10am – 4pm
Monday 30 June 10am – 2pm