design
05 Sep 2017
A firm of Shropshire steel fabricators is celebrating after helping a national charity scoop a top prize for a show garden designed to raise the plight of people suffering with serious bowel diseases.
Fabweld Steel Products designed a bespoke water wall that was a key feature of the ‘Facing Fear; Finding Hope’ garden by Crohn's and Colitis UK that won a gold medal at the recent Royal...
22 Aug 2017
Shropshire's fastest growing architectural practice is celebrating a record-breaking year in 2017, with more projects under way than any year in its history.
The experienced team at Base Architects in Shrewsbury is currently working on more than 170 projects covering Grand Design new builds, renovations, extensions, and urban and commercial developments across Shropshire, Cheshire and in other...
04 Aug 2017
A student from Shrewsbury Sixth Form College has been awarded first place in a regional competition held by the Rotary Club for design and innovation.
Connor Phillips, aged 18, from Llanfyllin in Powys, entered the Rotary Club Young Innovator competition earlier this month and walked away from the competition, bagging himself first place in the West Midland Regional final
Connor studied A Levels...
08 Jun 2017
Local firm, Wellmeadow Limited, have announced that they have been awarded a £20,000 Innovation grant from the EU to help it develop its latest product. The grant has been approved to support further work to commercialise a product so that the company can take it to a broader market.
Wellmeadow has been designing an early version of this software, which helps people to run more effective meetings...
02 Dec 2016
Funny, isn’t it, how certain cars just feel so instantly comfortable?
My first encounter with Volvo’s latest S90 was on very dark, very wet evening. After fumbling a little trying to find the correct but frustratingly small button on the S90’s key – strangely for car so determinedly designed to steal sales from the German executive crowd, there was no keyless entry on the S90 lent me - I...
19 Jul 2016
You may, like me, not have noticed the subtle face-lift Fiat gave their loveable little 500 last year. After 8 years of production and over 1.5 million sales, Centro Stile FIAT decided it was time to refresh both the 500’s exterior and interior, whilst retaining the unmistakable looks - that were so obviously inspired by the genius of what was the original Dante Giacosa rear-engined Nouva...
25 Apr 2016
It’s a long time since I last had breakfast in an aluminium trailer in Cumbria. Twenty-five years or so ago on a cold November morning I bought a bacon sandwich and a polystyrene cup of luke-warm coffee as I made my way into the Grizedale Forest to watch the RAC Rally. A local farmer had set up a barbecue and an evidently unreliable boiler in the back of a livestock trailer; as the crowds of...
22 Jan 2016
An entrepreneurial Shropshire restaurant owner has praised the quality and diversity of suppliers in the county after his new venture has got off to an ‘amazing’ start.
Local couple Adam and Kelly Lyons fulfilled a lifelong dream by investing £100,000 to launch their new Lyons’ Den venture three months ago at Traitors Gate in Shrewsbury.
The restaurant, which has created 12 full and part-time...
26 Nov 2015
Shrewsbury-based agency Source, which specialises in creative and digital marketing, has completed the first phase of a major packaging and online overhaul for a mid-Wales company that will see its products displayed in Harrods and Hamleys stores in London next year.
Timberkits, based at Llanbrynmair in Powys, recently secured funding for expansion after appearing on television’s Dragon’s Den...
14 Aug 2015
A Shropshire design student is flying high after being chosen to create a brand new mascot for the UK’s biggest hot air balloon rides company.
Joey McAleese, 18, from Shawbury was approached by Virgin Balloon Flights to design a brand new pilot character to mark the company’s 21st birthday.
The as-yet unnamed figure – a 21-year-old pilot with a cool retro look - will be at the centre of all the...
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