18th May 2012

The art of Nick Gentry

A very interesting series of portraits that also serve as a comment on ‘waste culture, life cycles and identity.’  The works are paintings using obsolete media storage formats as a canvas that are composed to integrate with the form. Nick Gentry is a British artist who, after growing up surrounded by floppy disks, video tapes…

Come and visit Minima Design Ltd on stand H14 at EAME 2011 (The Exhibition of Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering) on 20 September 2011.

Held at the APEX Building, Bury St. Edmunds, the themes of the conference programme will focus on the Pilot Innovation process and cross collaboration. Holding the event in Suffolk represents the coming together of the New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP). EAME promotes the Advanced Engineering / manufacturing sector of the region

‘Partners in Innovation’ written for Suffolk Business Magazine August 2011

It is becoming increasingly common for companies both large and small to focus on their core abilities and outsource other business requirements. This is no different in the design and innovation of their new products. It may be a surprise to many people that many well known brands both large and small often use outside…

2011 MediLink (HAI) group conference.

Minima Design Director Nick Field spoke at the 2011 MediLink WM Knowledge Transfer Network  Healthcare Acquired Infections (HAIs) Group Conference at Crewe Hall in Cheshire.  A demonstration was given sharing insights of how real world requirements and market feedback influence material selection at the design stage of medical product development. In healthcare product design, the…

The TouchSafe mobile phone payment security key was among the winners of the Design Out Crime Challenge featured in an exhibition launched at the Home Office in London on 23 March.  James Brokenshire, Minister for Crime Prevention gave an address commending the role of design in generating solutions to combat criminal activity. Marking the results of the…

The Annual Healthcare Estates Conference at Manchester Central featured a talk by Minima Design Director Nick Field.  Healthcare Estates is the UK’s largest gathering for organisations involved in the commissioning, design and operation of healthcare facilities. In 2010 over 1400 delegates and visitors attended. The event is organised by The Institute of Healthcare Engineering and…

Minima are exhibiting at The Exhibition of Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering at Hethel Engineering Centre 21st September 2010. The event will be a regional meeting place for those involved in advanced product development and manufacturing. Come and see us at stand A1. For more information see: www.hethelcentre.com/

Contact us to meet at MACH2010 on 10 June at the NEC, Birmingham, UK. Opening on Monday June 7 by HRH Duke of York, the MACH event combines a number of co-located exhibitions to profile the latest in manufacturing technology.  Designer Chris Ager and Workshop Manager Richard Carr-Beasley are  attending.

Renound design magazine Metropolis published an article on the Design Bugs Out project with extracts from an interview with Minima Design Director Nick Field looking at the details of the porters chair development project.  See the article in Metropolis magazine on-line at Metropolismag.com following the thumbnail images of the porter’s chair to link to the…

Invited as a panelist to the Plastic Caps and Closures 09 conference in Brussels, Nick Field, Design Director at Minima, was able to discuss how innovation comes about in the packaging industry. Creating new products in an industry with very tight cost and production constraints can be a challenge. Minima’s in-house pilot injection moulding has…