The Future Perfect Company has been a member of the Eastbourne Designed for All campaign since it began. “Eastbourne Designed for All - is a campaign to help businesses in Eastbourne meet local consumers' needs more effectively. It has developed an Inclusive Design Checklist for business self-assessment. It has introduced Eastbourne's own Community Toilets
The Future Perfect Company is excited to introduce our new Project Development and Marketing Assistant, Molly Aldrich–Wincer. Molly is a BSc Business Management & Marketing student from the University of Sussex who is currently on her placement year. Molly will be managing various aspects of the Designing for the Future project. This includes research,
This year the Designing for the Future project with the University of Brighton produced many interesting designs for ageing. Here BSc sports product design student Arun Joshi talks about his design, Allegro which aims to reduce falls by strengthening leg muscles using music making : "Tasked with producing a product for the ageing population
Alex Matthams, a product design graduate from the University of Brighton recently impressed the Designing for the Future judges with his design for an innovative jar-opening device that deploys mechanical advantage to increase older user's capabilities. Kay utilises two forms of mechanical advantage to open a jar, firstly the handle, the handle
Back pain, tricky seat belts and memory loss were some of the challenges targeted by this year’s Designing for the Future entrants. Designing for the Future run by The Future Perfect Company in conjunction with the University of Brighton encourages student designers to think about the challenges and issues affecting our ageing population –
Delighted to see our Designing for the Future student design project featured in the West Sussex County Times this week. It has been an absolute joy working with the A level students from Collyers this year and to see such talent coming through. Collyers covered the project HERE
A dial phone-inspired pill box has won this year’s Designing for the Future Competition at The College of Richard Collyer. Designing for the Future,encourages student designers to think about the challenges affecting our ageing population – and to create innovative and attractive designs which allow older people to continue to live meaningful, enjoyable, active
We were thrilled to learn that Jack Durling ,who was a runner up in our Designing for the Future competition back in 2013, has been invited to exhibit his work at the upcoming DesignersBlock in Milan as part of Milan Design Week. Jack will be showing his beautiful hand printed Accumulative Coat which uses dyes
This week VegTrug, makers of the innovative raised vegetable planters, announced the appointment of University of Brighton graduate, Hayley Moisley as their new ‘Design Guru’. Hayley has been brought in to contribute “a young and fresh approach to design” and VegTrug are very excited to see her product ideas coming to fruition over the
Our last blog post talked about my personal experience of how my late mother-in-law used or ignored assistive technology, those adaptations or bits of kits designed to make getting older easier. Here, occupational therapist, Maggie Winchcombe of Years Ahead, shares her thoughts and expertise: To start with your second-to-last question first... is your experience
