18 October 2017 – Help is on the horizon for patients juggling complicated treatment regimens for chronic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA). A novel approach to drug delivery from technology and product design firm Cambridge Design Partnership (CDP) is paving the way for a new generation of treatment that…
The Challenge Following the success of its Active 10 and Active 12 GPS devices, Satmap Systems decided to create the next generation of Active devices – with improved screen toughness, button functionality and waterproofing. It also wanted to incorporate new features such as a touchscreen, Wi-Fi connectivity, improved GPS and…
We celebrated Cambridge Design Partnership’s 21st birthday this month with a cruise down the River Thames followed by a black tie dinner for our staff at the Houses of Parliament in London. Mike Cane, founding partner, said: “It was thrilling for us to be able to stage a very special…
Following the recent and very popular blog “How to succeed as ‘Year in Industry’ students without burning the place down”, we are pleased to announce that our Year in Industry Student, Charlotte, has recently won the Engineering Development Trust’s ‘Award for Innovation’ at a competition in London on 3rd July.…
Research, design and technology consultancy Cambridge Design Partnership is pleased to announce the launch of diialog™, a new insight service that helps gain a deeper understanding of consumer behaviour. diialog™ uses miniature sensing technology discreetly fitted to products or packaging to capture quantitative data during user tests. Our team of…
FIRST® LEGO® League (FLL) is a global science and technology challenge for teams of students from 9 to 16 years, which encourages interest in science and technology and can develop key skills that are crucial for their future careers. The students work together to explore a topic and to design, build…
We have recently opened a new Hackspace within our Cambridge R&D centre to complement our extensive lab and traditional workshop facilities. We asked the team what the rationale is behind this new facility.Mike Cane, partner at CDP explains, “Our mission at CDP is to create market-leading new products for our…
Cambridge Design Partnership (CDP) had a landmark year in 2016, demonstrating global application of its holistic end-to end innovation approach, ‘Potential Realised’. Linking a combination of research, science, technology, engineering, manufacturing and design into a single integrated process, it developed many successful innovations for clients in FMCG and healthcare – collecting…
In recent weeks CDP hosted two delegations of entrepreneurs from Europe, who were keen to learn more about how they could use innovation to create value in their early stage businesses. The entrepreneurs, from universities in Finland, Latvia and Estonia, visited Cambridge Design Partnership as part of a Venture Camp…
Press Release Issued 17/1/2017: Cambridge UK, Head of Drug Delivery, Uri Baruch has been appointed as a partner at the Cambridge-based product design and innovation consultancy. Uri is a senior mechanical engineer and expert in drug delivery devices. For more than four years, he has led the Drug Delivery sector at…
Connectivity is ubiquitous – it’s moved beyond an overhyped buzzword and become part of life. Offering ever-advancing levels of access, control, and convenience, widespread connectivity also increases the risk of unauthorised interference in our everyday lives. In what many experts believe was a world first, manufacturer Johnson & Johnson recently…
International names in retailing joined more than 300 attendees at the recent Active and Intelligent Packaging Industry (AIPI) World Congress, enough for 2016 to be marked a ‘breakthrough’ year for technologies putting new powers into the hands of brand owners, altering their perceptions of what packaging is and will become…