One of the unique features of the DIP competition is that the top three finalists are each given a placement with valued sponsors, Brightworks UK, Innovate Design or PDD Innovation - all of them leading UK design and innovation companies
Since the award ceremony on July 5, our runner-up, Jake Lee, Glasgow School of Art, has completed a two-week placement with PDD Innovation in London, where he enjoyed hands-on experience of being involved in live projects.
Flashback: Jake Lee, left, at the DIP award ceremony with Graham Lacy and the overall winner, Isabel Payne
Here’s what he had to say afterwards:
“Overall it was a really great experience. It was genuinely useful to see first-hand what a job and the daily happenings in that kind of environment would look like.
“I got the opportunity to work on real ongoing projects and I feel these taught me a lot, such as more tangible skills like learning Solidworks master modelling for the first time, or actual insight into how design differs when, from the outset, it is properly considered for manufacture.
“It's definitely helped me to clarify what I see myself doing in the future and where I believe my interests lie.”
Graham Lacy, PDD’s technical director, added: “It is always a pleasure to host a talented winner of a DIP award. They only get to win if they have both initiative and innate ability. This means they can hit the ground running and slot in to help on live work.
In Jake’s case, although he hadn’t used computer aided design program Solidworks or 3D printing program, Bambu Labs FDM before, his prior CAD and rapid prototyping experience meant he could pick it up on the fly. With only a verbal brief and the sketch of an idea, he developed the concept of a medical device lock, modelled it in CAD, made and tested several iterative FDM prototypes and left us a working solution as we had envisioned it. And all this in little over a week.
Well done and thank you to DIP and Jake. We’re pleased he enjoyed the learning experience.”
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