Every small business owner can relate to this!!!

Every small business owner can relate to this!!!.

Placement advert 2012

D2M innovation are currently looking to recruit a placement student for the academic year 2012-2013. Please see pdf ad above

Vist our website for more information about the company and what we do:

D2M Innovation | Patenting, prototyping and producing new ideas

Exceptional Senior Designer Required!

D2M is a well-regarded product design consultancy with specific expertise in developing concepts where intellectual property is a key requirement. Our dynamic, forward thinking design team combine their expertise with the knowledge of Chartered Patent and Trademark Attorneys to develop new concepts cohesively. We create award-winning, market leading products for individuals and companies across a large number of different industries.

We seek a senior designer to be based at the Cheltenham design studio and you would be expected to take a leading role in designing and project managing the concept-to-market process for a wide range of clients from start-ups to multi-national companies.

The successful candidate will be intricately involved in: drafting design specifications, managing client expectations, concept generation, project management, CAD development, prototyping, producing manufacturing specifications and overseeing the production of samples by our UK and Far East partner manufacturing companies.

The scope of project work is huge from small electronic products to medical products and mechanical devices. We have growing prototyping facilities and a dedicated, highly-skilled team that helps ensure a desirable working environment.

The successful candidate will be an exceptional, talented, problem solving senior designer with creative flair, and excellent client handling ability.
Requirements:

• Ability to work quickly to the highest standard across all areas of the design process.
• Strong CAD modelling (ideally Solidworks or Pro E).
• 5+ years experience demonstrating excellent capability to balance function and form to create viable, appealing and functional products.
• Solid understanding of mechanics and electronics for product design.
• Able to bring out the best in other designers.
• Exceptional portfolio that demonstrates the ability to design production ready products.
• The enthusiasm and drive necessary to play a central role in the on-going development of a small company.
• Ability to ensure that projects meet specifications, standards, and performance requirements.
• Work independently, if necessary, to establish design requirements, conceptualise, plan and execute designs.
• Proven client handing ability.
• Show evidence of good organization and project planning skills.

£ competitive + 22 days holiday (+bank holidays)

 

To apply send pdf cv and portfolio to phil@design2market.co.uk

D2M client launches the fantastic Scooter Hook!

This inventive hook attaches to your buggy’s handlebars and lets you easily transport your scooter when on the move. It carries both small and large scooters and you can attach up to 2 hooks per buggy. Invented by Scoot, prototyped, patented and production managed by D2M Innovation.

Buy the scooter hook
Read more about the Scooter Hook

Product Design Recruitment Consultants

Lots of people keep asking me who the main recruitment consultants are for designers so this post aims to build up a list:

Solid Contracts - Specialising in SolidWorks trained designers.

Tel: 01202 314 444
Mobile: 07796 175 450
e-mail: asorrell@solidcontracts.co.uk
Web: www.solidcontracts.co.uk

Source1 Recruitment Ltd

Shehnela Baig
Recruitment Consultant

Tel: +44 (0)1753 550879
Fax: +44 (0)1753 550879
Mobile: +44 (0)7850 443004
Skype: source1rec
E-mail: sb@source1recruitment.co.uk
Web: http://www.source1recruitment.co.uk

Circle Recruitment

Jon Brass – Director

Mob:       07747 468 256

Tel:         +44 (0) 845 210 3333

Fax:        +44 (0) 845 210 2233

jon.brass@circlerecruitment.com

www.circlerecruitment.com

Triangle Recruitment Consultants

www.trianglerecruit.co.uk

0800 334 5909

Adrem Recruitment
1-3 Dufferin Street
London
EC1Y 8NA
Tel: +44 (020) 7562 8282
Fax: +44 (020) 7562 8283
Email: info@adrem.uk.com
 

SOLID PEOPLE LTD

Spectrum House,
Dunstable Road,
Redbourn,
St Albans,
Hertfordshire,
AL3 7PR 
Tel: 01582 791188
Email: enquiries@solidpeople.co.uk 

Putting an Idea into Production

We have added a page to our website on manufacturing an idea. Check it out here:

D2M Manufacturing an idea | Putting an idea into production

D2M List of Services

We will put together a proposal, free of charge, to recommend which of the following services you need and the cost involved for your idea.

1. IDEA FEASIBILITY ASSESSMENT – an investigation into the technical feasibility of the concept to ensure that it will work. An essential first step for some ideas.
2. PRODUCT DESIGN – we take the basis of your idea and develop it into a viable, appealing and manufacturable final concept.
3. PRODUCT SELL SHEET – presenting your idea professionally to ensure that your idea is taken seriously by industry or potential investors.
4. PROTOTYPING – creating a model of your idea to demonstrate the concept to investors and industry.
5. PRODUCTION QUOTATION – creating a product specification and then obtaining three competitive quotes from different manufacturers for tooling and unit cost.
6. PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT – working alongside a trustworthy and reliable sourcing partner or manufacturer to organise and manage the production of your product in this country or abroad.
7. LICENSING – taking your idea to the right people in the right companies to initiating the process of negotiating the sale of your idea.

D2M strives to provide a complete design to market service. In order to do this, we have partnered with companies that share our values to provide some of the services you may need.

Key Partner Services

• GLOBAL PATENT SEARCHING – global searching by fully trained patent and design analysts. Report provided with a written summary by a Chartered Patent Attorney.
• PATENT DRAFTING – writing your patent application to ensure a broad scope of protection.
• REGISTERED DESIGN APPLICATION – filing protection for your design in the UK or across the EU.
• MARKET RESEARCH – cost effective and detailed report helping to answer the question as to whether your product will sell and if so, for how much.
• ELECTRONICS AND SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT – PCB layout design and development, electronics testing and software development.
• TRADEMARKING – protecting your logo, product and company name.

(Our sister company, Albright Patents, provides patent and trademark services to our clients, if required. Albright Patents and D2M share the same office ensuring that your Patent Attorney, Trademark Attorney and product designer can collaborate effectively to develop and protect your idea.)