COMMUNITY
COMMUNITY
Community is the cornerstone of Design Truth.
It allows us to nurture a new wave for industrial design to thrive as a fair, inclusive, diverse and transparent industry bursting with talent, opportunities and ideas.
From listening to the realities of industry life on our podcast to making genuine connections at our sold-out nationwide events, our unique network is growing and flourishing all the time.
Keep scrolling for more on Training, Events & Podcast.
Events
Training
Podcast
Events
Events form the foundation in bringing the community to life.
From bus or by Brompton, 150 designers turned up to the inaugural launch event #001 during a Tuesday-night tube strike in London, and we have not looked back ever since.
Since then we have sold out all of our first 10 events across four cities in Manchester, London, Cambridge & Bristol.
Over 1000 designers attended a Design Truth event in 2023.
Whether it is a catch up with old colleagues, a hazy trip down memory lane with alumni to forming new connections for that student placement, design internship, freelance contract or career opportunity - a Design Truth event provides the perfect backdrop for you to make things happen.
A ticket to a Design Truth event continues to be the most sought after ticket in the calendar.
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#019
March 13 / London
Capacity [250] / SOLD OUT.
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Call the chiropractor as guess who is back.
Welcome to Design Truth #019.
#018
November 20 / London
Capacity [150] / SOLD OUT.
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The final Design Truth event of 2024, brought to you by Suri.
About time we went East.
Tickets went inside 24 hours. Sold out. One day we will sell out.
Welcome to Design Truth #018.
JOBS FAIR.
August 5th / BRISTOL.
Capacity [280] / SOLD OUT INSIDE 24 HOURS.
For new beginnings.
For old stories.
For the design & engineering talent that has been unfortunately made redundant at Dyson.
Local, national & international employers in the building.
Dyson made over 1000 redundancies.
Not on our watch.
It is called community. You look out for one another.
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Suri
Industry of Us
Prototype Projects
Design Truth training is gold for your professional development.
Real-life, genuine insight from industry experts helping you or your industrial designers becoming the best they can be.
We understand the complexities and nuances of the profession like no other, providing a rich depth of training encompassing both the commercial and creative elements the industry desires.
Our training is delivered face-to-face in small, likeminded groups designed for maximum impact. This allows you to experience the insight from the trainer facilitating but also the peer-level perspective in the room.
TRAINING
YOUR FACILITATOR
From setting up or scaling a design agency to mastering industry-essential software like Keyshot or Solidworks - the depth of topics we cover on a Design Truth training combined with the access we have to industry is an exciting evolution to what is currently available on the market.
The next Design Truth training will be ‘The Industry Guide to KeyShot’ facilitated by Liam Martin: A one-day session built for industrial and furniture designers that has been completed by designers from the likes of Brompton, British & American Tobacco, Herman Miller, Pentagram and more.
Two one-day sessions (for two groups of up to 10) will be taking place on the Wednesday 14th & Thursday 15th May.
Click + for more info on course content, pricing and dates.
To book your slot for the training / contact hello@designtruth.co.uk.
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Become a KeyShot professional with The Industry Guide to KeyShot: A one-day course to take you from core understanding to confident pro, delivered by 3D Artist and KeyShot specialist Liam Martin.
As founder of the KeyShot-focused resource library, Visune, as well as a previous lecturer at Nottingham Trent University, Liam provides a unique experience of consultancy life and modern day education.
Both with the KeyShot resources his team makes at Visune and the content he teaches, Liam’s mission is to make product visualisation with KeyShot quick, effective, and enjoyable.
This one-day course will give you all the tools you need to graduate from being a KeyShot beginner into a confident professional, taking you through topics such as setting up creating custom lighting setups, organising scenes professionally, understanding how to create complex materials, and exporting renders with optimal settings.
This training has been completed by industrial designers at the likes of British American Tobacco, Brompton Bicycle, Tech21, Pentagram and many others.
After this course, you will have the skills to create efficient KeyShot files with attractive lighting, plus the knowledge to follow more advanced content online with confidence.
You will need to bring your own Laptop. Temp licenses for Keyshot are available, but you do need to let us know before signing up.
We will be running two one-day sessions for two groups across Wednesday 14th & Thursday 15th May.
Next Session:
Cost: £400 + vat*If you are an employer looking to bring more than one designer to the training - please contact us for a conversation before booking.
PODCAST.
Design Truth started as nothing more than a podcast back in April 2020.
A creative outlet designed to keep industrial designers connected during periods of lockdown, uncertainty and isolation.
Over 60,000 downloads later, the podcast is a vehicle to keep the community engaged with our initiatives and industry life.
We have spoken to the likes of Arrival, Blond, Morrama - covering topics about becoming a BCorp, starting a design agency, transitioning to service design, design education through to The Apprentice.
There is something for everyone.
This is a project we stopped at over 60,000 downloads - but we hope the conversation remains timeless.