Chris Houghton leads Brand Innovation & Packaging at Cambridge Design Partnership, he has worked on an array of successful insight, design and strategic innovation projects with top consumer goods names including Arla, Carlsberg, Coca-Cola, Diageo, Nestle, PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble and Unilever.Following his ‘Context is King’ keynote speeches at PACE in Amsterdam and AIPIA in…
CDP ENGINEERS LIVE ON BBC NEWS CDP engineers were featured on BBC news yesterday evening, to offer an insight into their voluntary work for Remap, a national engineering charity that makes custom equipment for people with disabilities. Mechanical engineers Akshaya Ahuja & Jessica Carroll explain how they help people with…
A team from Cambridge Design Partnership has created a ground-breaking ‘smart pill’ to gather crucial nutritional information to help develop innovative new pet foods. CDP scientists and engineers worked with the world-renowned Waltham Centre for Pet Nutrition on an electronic pill to collect food samples inside the canine gut during…
We are delighted to have worked with Mars Petcare to develop the ‘Smart Pill’, a non-invasive device that automatically samples the contents of a dog’s digestive tract for analysis in the lab. This innovation allows Mars Petcare scientists to gain a unique insight into how the dog digests its food,…
Mechanical engineer Akshaya Ahuja, wins the prestigious Wolff Award at Remap’s National Award Ceremony after creating a special gadget to help a woman with cerebral palsy. Akshaya Ahuja recently travelled to a national award ceremony in London to receive an award for his charity work. Akshaya, created a solution to…
Could this technology enable new wearables and portable devices that offer high levels of adherence and measurement continuity?
Our Year in Industry Students Miranda Dobson and Isaac Blanc report on how they took STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) into one of our local primary schools to help to inspire the next generation of engineers and scientists. Early exposure to STEM helps young people better understand the world…
In our recent blog post ‘What’s Next In Hemodialysis’ we looked at some of the trends that are driving the industry. This month we report from the European Renal Association – European Dialysis and Transplant Association (ERA-EDTA) congress in Budapest. With more than 110 companies exhibiting to 9,500 attendees, Matt…
Margaret Thatcher famously said ‘sleep is for wimps’. Sadly, that’s not good advice, but also, it seems, it is exceedingly bad for the economy. Even though we spend around a third of our lives asleep, society it seems, has been mis-sold the value of a full night’s sleep. RAND Europe,…
Currently agriculture is facing challenges from many directions. Modern hyper-intensive farming (demanding the highest crop yield from monocultured crops with less regard for long-term fertility or ecosystem metrics) is interrelated with the great environmental threats; destabilising climate change, biodiversity, oceanic dead zones and poor global soil health. In turn these…
Women are still hugely under-represented in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) careers. Only 22% of the UK STEM workforce is made up of women according to a 2018 study. In Engineering specifically, the stats are worse: only 12% of all professional engineers are women. Here at Cambridge Design Partnership,…
There is no doubt that User Experience (UX) is a hot topic throughout today’s design world. But how is the personal approach to product development affecting the field of healthcare? Lucy Sheldon, people-centered designer, and Andres Barrera, user experience designer, went along to the first ever User Centred Design (UXD)…