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So much to talk about, a selection below of news and thoughts we’ve been able to jot down. If you want to know more get in touch.

Sep 13. 2024
Nov 19. 2024

Our trip to Design for Planet Festival

Nov 06. 2024

From Wales to Westminster: Embedding Design for Future Generations in the UK’s Industrial Strategy

Nov 02. 2024

Patrick's SMART Partnership progress with 3 Sixty

Oct 31. 2024

We're going to Design for Planet Festival, Manchester

Oct 24. 2024

Piotr's trip to Taiwan for the International Student Design Competition 2024

Oct 18. 2024

New research paper highlights barriers and solutions for scaling up custom assistive technology

Oct 15. 2024

Looking ahead to MEDICA 2024

Oct 11. 2024

ReGen wins Red Dot Design Concept Award 2024

Oct 07. 2024

Dr Katie Beverley's involvement in Circular Economy Hotspot Cymru 2024

Oct 04. 2024

New opportunities available to work with us through Media Cymru funding

Oct 01. 2024

Making Design Count in the Philippines

Sep 27. 2024

Our trip to the London Design Festival

Sep 11. 2024

We're going to the London Design Festival

Sep 06. 2024

Find us at the Creative Business Roadshow, Merthyr

Aug 21. 2024

UK IPO launches new SME financial support scheme

Aug 01. 2024

Meet the team: Mengting Cheng

Jul 16. 2024

ReGen receives a Green Good Design Award

Jul 11. 2024

Our involvement in the Symbio project

Jul 01. 2024

PDR to present as part of Research and Innovation week 2024

Jun 28. 2024

Meet the Team: Patrick Richards

Jun 20. 2024

Will and Dom to attend Rapid & TCT 3D printing conference in LA

Jun 17. 2024

Utilising AI to Enhance Secondary Research Analysis

Jun 04. 2024

Presenting CO:RE Cards to DESIGN 2024

May 23. 2024

CO:RE Cards: Content & Aesthetics

May 14. 2024

Stand paediatric upright stander wins a German Innovation Award 2024

May 09. 2024

Jarred to present at Masterbatch Europe in Vienna

May 08. 2024

Our trip to Berlin for the iF Design Awards 2024

May 02. 2024

Collaborative Dialogues with CO:RE Cards

Apr 29. 2024

What are the best things about being an iF Award jury member?

Apr 26. 2024

Design for the Financial Sector

Apr 19. 2024

Behind the Design: Museum Without Walls

Apr 15. 2024

Jarred to join panel discussion on design to empower marginalised communities

Apr 02. 2024

Our Media Cymru team in 2024

Mar 28. 2024

Our visit to the Game Developers Conference 2024

Mar 27. 2024

Our work with Immersive Queer Placemaking

Mar 25. 2024

Building Design Capability in Government – Professor Anna Whicher

Mar 22. 2024

Race Council Cymru opens Codi Cymru exhibition

Mar 20. 2024

Exploring the Museum Without Walls

Mar 14. 2024

Navigating regulatory compliance in medical device development

Mar 07. 2024

We’ve won two iF Awards!

Mar 06. 2024

Applying User Centred Principles to GUI Design

Feb 29. 2024

1 year later: An update on PDR and V-Trak’s Knowledge Transfer Partnership

Feb 14. 2024

Turning academic projects into commercial solutions

Feb 05. 2024

Spaces Reimagined: How we craft meaningful environments

Feb 02. 2024

Design Diaries: Cat's journey to becoming a senior user centred designer at PDR

Jan 12. 2024

Medical collaboration showcases PDR’s strengths in research and product design

Jan 09. 2024

PDR wins 3 Good Design Awards for 2023

Jan 05. 2024

Team Reflections on 2023

Dec 15. 2023

PDR Consultancy in 2023: Year in Review

Dec 14. 2023

Reflecting on a year of innovation: An update on Media Cymru 2023

Dec 06. 2023

Stand paediatric support system wins German Design Award for 2024

Nov 24. 2023

Nyfasi Deluxe Detangler: Behind the Design

Nov 23. 2023

Recap of MEDICA Trade Fair 2023

Nov 17. 2023

From problem to solution: How PDR can help resolve product failures

Nov 10. 2023

Tokyo to London

Nov 06. 2023

Meet us at MEDICA 2023

Oct 31. 2023

GQ Grooming Awards 2023 honour PDR's Generation Razor Design

Oct 27. 2023

Getting Your Foot in the Design Industry: Essential Tips for Aspiring Design Graduates

Oct 10. 2023

Testing, testing, 1,2,3… How we solve problems when prototyping

Oct 06. 2023

Tabu*: Behind the Design

Sep 29. 2023

CALLING ALL DESIGNERS: we need you to take part in our Design Council survey

Sep 29. 2023

Collaborate with PDR through the Welsh government-backed SMART FIS Scheme

Sep 27. 2023

PDR’s Tabu* presented with a Red Dot Design Concept Award for 2023

Sep 15. 2023

PDR's IFA 2023 highlights: Unveiling the future of tech in Berlin

Sep 07. 2023

Challenges of sustainable design practices: Insights from PDR’s presentation at the International Design Conference 2023

Aug 25. 2023

En route to IFA Berlin 2023

Aug 24. 2023

PDR wins Gold in IDEA 2023 for Tabu*

Aug 14. 2023

How can PDR support businesses?

Aug 11. 2023

Sowing the Seeds of Innovation: a look at the Media Cymru Seed Fund programme

Aug 01. 2023

Navigating Design Terminology

Jul 27. 2023

PDR’s Away Day

Jul 14. 2023

Discover what makes Brace Packaging special

Jul 11. 2023

Meet our new Digital Media and Marketing Officer, Davie Morgan

Jul 06. 2023

Opportunities to work with PDR through KTPs and SMART Partnerships

Jul 04. 2023

Rendering: KeyShot as a reiterative tool in the design process

Jun 30. 2023

Reimagining Exhibition Design through Service Design

Jun 28. 2023

Design for the Financial Sector

Jun 13. 2023

Brace Packaging wins Green GOOD DESIGN 2023 Award

Jun 07. 2023

Key Insights from the International Seating Symposium 2023

Jun 06. 2023

Designing the future: An exploration of design’s role in technical advancement

Jun 02. 2023

PDR to present at International Design Conference in New York

May 25. 2023

Introducing the PDR Colour, Material & Finish Library

May 24. 2023

PDR wins German Innovation Award 2023 for Cercle

May 22. 2023

PDR attends Fuorisalone 2023

May 15. 2023

PDR receives 2 iF Design Awards for 2023

May 10. 2023

We are attending the upcoming 2023 IFSEC International event

Apr 25. 2023

Meet our new Design Intern, Olivia Goonatillake

Mar 28. 2023

PDR and Media Cymru: Nurturing Innovative Practices in the Creative Industries

Mar 16. 2023

Meet our new Designer User Researcher, Siena DeBartolo

Mar 14. 2023

We are attending the upcoming 2023 Naidex event

Feb 28. 2023

Designing with the planet in mind: How working on concepts in PDR can translate to designing a more sustainable future

Feb 23. 2023

Meet William Dauncey, Product Designer and KTP Associate

Feb 20. 2023

Exploring the Knowledge Transfer Partnership between PDR and V-Trak

Feb 17. 2023

Ambiente and the German Design Awards Show 2023

Feb 16. 2023

Explore the 3 innovative products featured in newdesigners Yearbook 2023

Feb 08. 2023

An Open Call for Seed Funding by Media Cymru has been launched

Feb 07. 2023

Meet our new Design Intern, David Balaam

Feb 01. 2023

Explore On Your Doorstep

Jan 31. 2023

PDR wins 4 GOOD DESIGN Awards

Jan 27. 2023

Meet our new User Centred Designer, Afaf Ali

Jan 26. 2023

Living on the Edge… of Design Research - Professor Andrew Walters

Jan 25. 2023

Ambiente 2023: See you there!

Jan 23. 2023

A recap of Valencia as the World Design Capital of 2022

Jan 20. 2023

Meet our new Design Innovation Specialist, Oliver Evans

Jan 12. 2023

Meet our new Business Development Consultant, Michelle Letherby

Jan 05. 2023

Meet our new Post-Doctoral Design Researcher, Dr Safia Suhaimi

Jan 03. 2023

PDR Research in 2022: Year in Review

Dec 21. 2022

PDR Consultancy in 2022: Year in Review

Dec 19. 2022

Staying Relevant as a Product Designer

Dec 15. 2022

Introducing our Gold German Design Award winning concept Cercle, a revolution in sustainable design

Dec 13. 2022

Our round-up of MEDICA Trade Fair 2022

Nov 10. 2022

Design for Democracy at the BEDA Design Forum

Nov 08. 2022

Catch up with us at MEDICA 2022

Nov 04. 2022

Media Cymru taking funded RD&I Applications

Oct 28. 2022

Meta and Physical Reality, and Material Innovations at the London Design Festival

Oct 21. 2022

Meet our new Product Design Engineer, Ryan Jones

Oct 04. 2022

Meet our new Design Consultant, Will Pargeter

Sep 28. 2022

PDR lands Red Dot Design Concept Award for 2022!

Sep 27. 2022

PDR wins Silver in IDEA 2022 for Umiko Face Mask

Aug 16. 2022

Memories from Milan Design Week: The Fuorisalone 2022

Aug 09. 2022

PDR’s Piotr Swiatek re-elected to the board of BEDA

Aug 03. 2022

Supporting innovation in the creative industries with Clwstwr

Jul 28. 2022

The challenges of design in a more environmentally conscious world

Jul 21. 2022

PDR attends the 20th Exclusively Show in London

Jul 13. 2022

Our approach to improving inherited UI design-related issues

Jun 27. 2022

Greenhouse training: How we’re helping Valletta Design Cluster engage new communities

May 11. 2022

How PDR is supporting the museum to embed design

May 05. 2022

Meet our new Human Centred Design Assistant Researcher, Dr Sally Cloke

Apr 29. 2022

Embrace our Differences: Design for Healthcare and Adaptation - Professor Dominic Eggbeer

Apr 20. 2022

PDR secures 3 iF Design Awards for 2022!

Apr 06. 2022

Travels with PDR: To San Francisco and beyond

Mar 10. 2022

Meet our new Senior User Centred Designer, Hefin Jones

Mar 08. 2022

How to successfully bring design thinking into an organisation

Mar 03. 2022

The purpose and benefits of consumer insight studies

Mar 01. 2022

Exploring the 3 revolutionary products featured in newdesign Yearbook 2022

Feb 24. 2022

PDR’s Jarred Evans on becoming an iF Design Award juror

Feb 14. 2022

Designing innovation in the housewares sector

Feb 08. 2022

Why is sketching still important in the 21st century?

Feb 01. 2022

Introducing the Nyfasi Deluxe Detangler, the innovative Afro hair comb

Jan 17. 2022

Why is UCD important to develop social impact?

Jan 10. 2022

Triple Win for PDR at the 2021 Good Design® Awards

Dec 17. 2021

PDR in 2021: Year in Review

Dec 13. 2021

Exploring our new Colour, Materials, Finish (CMF) lab

Dec 01. 2021

Meet Catriona, our newest User Centred Designer

Nov 16. 2021

Medica and Medical Device Design at PDR

Nov 11. 2021

What is UCD?

Oct 28. 2021

Introducing PDR’s new Digital Prototyping Lab

Oct 26. 2021

How we develop innovation in the Life Science Industry

Oct 21. 2021

PDR wins Red Dot Concept Award in the Sustainability category for Shield

Oct 12. 2021

Meet Katie, our Colour, Materials, Finish (CMF) Designer

Oct 05. 2021

Lessons from the path to Professor, from Anna Whicher

Sep 28. 2021

Applying design in the creative industries

Sep 21. 2021

PDR takes Bronze in IDEA 2021 for Shield

Sep 08. 2021

Exploring the Product Design Journey at PDR

Sep 03. 2021

How Design Can Help Start-ups

Aug 31. 2021

Circular Design School 2021

Aug 26. 2021

My first year as a User Centred Designer, with Iona Davis

Aug 23. 2021

The story behind the award-winning Brace project

Aug 19. 2021

Exploring the role of design within interdisciplinary research

Aug 17. 2021

Mr Evans, Please Take a Chair - Introducing PDR’s Newest Professor

Aug 06. 2021

PDR and Cardiff Region win £50m funding to develop media innovation

Jul 29. 2021

Discussions on design with Grahame Jones, Senior Design Consultant

Jul 23. 2021

24 Hour Challenge with Cardiff School of Art & Design

Jul 06. 2021

How Design Support Programmes Help Businesses

Jun 25. 2021

Healthy Ageing By Design

Jun 22. 2021

Why Service Design Is Integral To Public Sector Innovation

Jun 11. 2021

Circular Economy Challenges in the Real World

Jun 09. 2021

The Richard Burton Exhibition is now open at Amgueddfa Cymru/National Museum Wales!

May 12. 2021

Exploring Knowledge Transfer Partnerships and the Strength of Sharing

May 10. 2021

PDR's work published on the Design Museum London Website!

May 06. 2021

PDR is now Ranked Number 1 in the iF World Design Guide Index for 2021

Apr 28. 2021

PDR Wins 4 iF Design Awards, including a Gold!

Apr 23. 2021

How we made CoolSculpting Elite, the next generation in body contouring systems

Apr 21. 2021

Helping S4C Develop its Offering With ‘User Centred Design’

Apr 15. 2021

We’re pleased to share a recently published article from PDR’s own Dr. Anna Whicher

Apr 01. 2021

GUI Design: How To Get It Right First Time

Mar 19. 2021

The Arts and Humanities Research Council award two Fellowships to PDR

Mar 17. 2021

PDR featured in newdesign Yearbook 2021

Mar 12. 2021

We welcome a new Senior Design Consultant to the team!

Mar 04. 2021

Defining Your Next New Product: Why Does It Matter?

Mar 01. 2021

How we made CoolTone, a revolutionary muscle-toning device.

Feb 22. 2021

Say Hello to Cat

Jan 29. 2021

Product Design and the Circular Economy

Jan 21. 2021

Reflections on making policy more citizen-centred with Dr Anna Whicher

Jan 08. 2021

PDR wins an incredible four 2020 GOOD DESIGN® Awards

Oct 23. 2020

Understanding consumers in the time of change

Oct 16. 2020

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About... Design Awards

Sep 24. 2020

Snoozeal® Wins at the 2020 IDEA Awards

Aug 21. 2020

It's Arrived! Unboxing our iF Gold Award 2020

Aug 13. 2020

Exploring the Clwstwr Project with Professor Andrew Walters

Feb 05. 2020

Trends in Design Policy from Taiwan

Dec 05. 2019

German Design Award Winner 2020

May 13. 2019

Building the Cardiff Service Design Community

Apr 25. 2019

How Might We... Prototype Services Better

Apr 18. 2019

Milan Design Week 2019

Mar 19. 2019

Istanbul Design Summit 2019

Feb 18. 2019

PDR Wins German Design Award

Nov 30. 2018

Next Practice In Design Action Plans - Part 2

Nov 30. 2018

Next Practice In Design Action Plans - Part 1

Nov 23. 2018

Layr Lifts 2019 German Design Award

Sep 07. 2018

PDR and Cardiff Met Celebrate Successful Creative Clusters Bid

May 08. 2018

Greenhouse April 2018

Apr 06. 2018

User Research to Inform Strategy

Feb 06. 2018

Layr secures 2018 iF Design Award

Jan 24. 2018

Dual Success for PDR in Good Design Awards

Nov 13. 2017

Service Design Global Conference 2017

Oct 19. 2017

Greenhouse for a Global Financial Services Firm