Gareth Loudon

Attended Conference on Creativity in Design

Sun, 23 Oct 2011 11:08:56 +0000

Just recently came back from a conference on Creativity and Innovation in Design (DESIRE’11) in Eindhoven where I presented some of my latest research work. You can see more details on the research here.

Rikoset Winner at Best of Welsh Design Awards 2011

Sat, 15 Oct 2011 12:40:28 +0000

Congratulations to Baz and the team at Rikoset for being one of the winners of the Best of Welsh Design Awards last night in Cardiff.

Rikoset Shortlisted for Best of Welsh Design Awards 2011

Sun, 02 Oct 2011 19:35:17 +0000

Rikoset (one of the companies I am involved in) has been shortlisted for the Welsh Design Awards 2011 in the Product and 3D Design category.

Talk on Play for Creativity and Learning

Sun, 02 Oct 2011 16:37:04 +0000

I recently gave a talk at the Cardiff Design Festival on ‘The Importance of Play for Creativity and Learning’. You can see some images from Jorge Lizalde on the series of talks.

Setup the Centre for Creativity and Innovation

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 21:01:53 +0000

I recently set up the Centre for Creativity and Innovation with Gina Deininger to bring together our knowledge, experience and new research studies.

Talk on “Beliefs in Creativity”

Sun, 21 Nov 2010 12:06:28 +0000

I recently gave a talk on “Beliefs in Creativity”. The presentation slides are online on Prezi.com if you are interested. I will also put up a video of the presentation in the near future.

Workshop for Mothercare designers

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:11:53 +0000

Recently ran a 2-day workshop at UWIC for Mothercare on ethnography and new product development. Plan to run similar workshops in the future.

Attending 3-day Plastic Electronics Workshop

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:48:46 +0000

I am attending a 3-day interactive workshop next week (1st – 3rd March) run by the UK Technology Strategy Board that is “to find end-use applications and associated designs that can be used within plastic electronics and produce demonstrators with potential for real commercial value … The Technology Strategy Board has allocated up to £3m to fund industry-led collaborative demonstrator development projects arising from the workshop.” Should be an interesting and fun experience.

WISE KIDS conference

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:57:21 +0000

As my role as a non-exec Director on WISE KIDS I thought I should promote the upcoming 1 day conference WISE KIDS are hosting in South and North Wales respectively (together with the Wales Internet Safety Partnership) on “Young People in a Digital World 2010 – Preparing, Supporting and Inspiring “. See more at the http://www.wisekids.org.uk/conf2010/

Funding for Rikoset

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:44:02 +0000

The new venture called Rikoset (pronounced ricochet), that I am a non-exec Director of, has recently secured £40k worth of funding to develop (and test) new protective garments for the sports sector. An exciting journey awaits.