our company.

designworks is a global team of product development experts. Our knowledge and skill, combined with cutting edge research and technology allows us to design the future for our clients. We understand and work with clients across the consumer, medical, sport, ICT, toy, and transport sectors.

our philosophy.

We believe that good design is about establishing perspective. We listen to the needs of our customers, and respond with balanced, simple design. We believe a products function should not be masked by meaningless novelty, rather, enhanced with well considered innovation, ergonomics, materials, and technology. We look for new behavioural patterns in people and cultures; this information is captured in our research and transferred to your product, adding relevance to your ideas.

our capabilities.

We offer design, development and manufacture of products. Our approach is flexible and collaborative, allowing our clients to work with us for all or part of their product development process.

Our capabilities includes:

Industrial design

Design research

Technology transfer and application
Trend analysis

Behavioural research
Human factors

Semiotics, semantics, ergonomics
Product feasibility
Conceptual design
Interaction design
Prototyping

Traditional Sculpting

Digital Sculpting
Engineering design
Product specification
Production management
Production
Safety testing and certification

our people.

Between our studios we have a dedicated team of over 35 industry experts, carefully selected to create a broad skill set which provides an invaluable resource to the company’s clients.

our resources.

Our passion for cutting-edge design is underpinned by investment in state-of-the-art facilities and training for our staff. Our workstations, software and literature resources are constantly updated and reviewed to ensure maximum efficiency in our work and reduced risk for our clients.

our history.

designworks was established in the UK in 1991 by Jeremy Gardner and Peter Rickett. Today designworks meets and exceeds the challenges of a diverse and prestigious clients list.

 

designworks has recently expanded to include a new design studio located in Brisbane, Australia and a production centre in Hong Kong.