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West Sussex County Times covers competition results

Posted: June 14th, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Designing for the Future Competition - University of Brighton, Press coverage | 5 Comments »

There was a nice piece in this week’s West Sussex County Times about our Designing for the Future competition run with the University of Brighton which asked the students to design products which dealt with one or more of the challenges of ageing. As well as mentioning our winner Harry Trimble, a couple of the other designs were also featured.

Ashley Temudo

Ashley Temudo re-designed the hearing aid. Ashley, who is a second year 3D Design student at Brighton, took his inspiration from the way spectacles have been transformed from assistive aids (who can forget the ugly NHS pink and blue glasses dolled out to children in the 1970s?) to the must-have fashion accessories many designs are today.

Ashley told me : “I aimed to recreate the way hearing aids look and how people perceive them. From a minimalist object that tends to be hidden today, almost considered a social stigma, I wanted to create a fashion accessory which could be worn flamboyantly, attracting positive attention, even from people with no hearing impairments.”

And there is nothing timid about this design. What do you think?

Sophia Fong

Also pictured was the pill box by Brighton second year 3D Design student, Sophia Fong.

The seven day pill organiser is a beautiful, handmade walnut box used to organise and dispense daily doses of medication or supplements across a one-week period. Unlike the many plastic pill organisers available today, this is a really attractive box made out of warm walnut wood which sits snugly in the palm of your hand. Something that you would be pleased to display on your dressing table. And may be a future heirloom.

Let us know what you think about the designs. Would you wear Ashley’s hearing aid?

5 Comments on “West Sussex County Times covers competition results”

1 Bernice said at 4:27 am on April 17th, 2012:
My daughter is 9 years old and is about to get hearing aids for the first time. She wants these and want to give my baby girl the world!… so where can we get some?
2 admin said at 1:25 pm on April 17th, 2012:
I am delighted that you like them. these particular hearing aids were designed by Ashley Temudo as part of our Designing for the Future project with the University of Brighton. Sadly, I don’t think he has yet been able to take them into production so they are not available for sale but I will let him know that he has a potential customer and you never know!
3 Ashley said at 10:24 am on April 25th, 2012:
Hello Bernice I’m delighted to hear you like the design! As philippa mentioned it was part of a project so sadly it’s not in production. It seems to be getting a lot of positive feedback and I would love to get it produced. If I do manage to do this you will be the first to know!
4 Chloe said at 10:30 pm on November 26th, 2012:
I don’t suppose the pill box by Sophia Fong went into production did it? I absolutely love it, its perfect and there’s nothing else really out there like it.
5 admin said at 7:44 pm on November 27th, 2012:
Hi Chloe. It is lovely, isnt it? The pill box did not go into production although some of Sophia’s other work did and was sold in the Design Museum shop. Here’s Sophia’s website if you want to contact her http://sophiafong.co.uk/ Philippa