Charlwood Design mentors the James Dyson Award Winner

The studio had some great news this week with design student Sarah Heimeier's project developed for a Charlwood Design lead studio with RMIT university industrial design winning the National prize for the James Dyson Award. 

The studio focused on future healthcare innovations and Sarah's device, Jana is a wearable ultrasonic sensor that can monitor an expectant mother and baby’s heartbeat, blood pressure and glucose levels with a focus on helping rural families get better levels of care.

Charlwood Design has now been involved with three semesters with RMIT focusing on connected healthcare, with Paul Charlwood recently giving feedback and insights to the students on their ideas. He was very impressed with the exceptionally high standard of work that came out of an empathetic design process.

More information about the James Dyson Award Winner:

http://www.jamesdysonaward.org/projects/jana-remote-pregnancy-monitoring/

Hills Young Australian Design Award

The Charlwood Design office recently received some great new when we found out that two students from RMIT had become finalists in Hills Young Australian Design Awards.

Sarah Heimeier and Victor Bejan both attended the Charlwood Design Medical Device studio that we ran at RMIT University in 2013 (see here and here). We are pleased to see that both of them have pursued their interest in the Medical Device world!

Sarah has developed a rather clever Remote Pregnancy Monitor aimed at rural women. The system monitors a pregnant mothers body- recording any symptoms, blood pressure readings and development she may have. The information is then sent to their doctors in an effort to reduce the amount of visits needed.

Victors project is an Anaphylaxis Monitor aimed at reducing the life threatening allergic reaction that can happen to sufferers. The wearable device automatically administers adrenalin whilst simultaneously contacting emergency services when an allergic reaction happens. This helps to remove human error, which has previously been the cause of multiple avoidable deaths.

Charlwood Design wishes both Sarah and Victor the best in their future endeavors. It's great to see young designers with a thirst for helping people!

Emerging Designers Inside Nights

Charlwood Design is proudly participating in the Emerging Designers Inside Nights for 2014.

The event, ran by DIA Victoria Tasmania & Emerging Designers, provides an opportunity to meet the creative design talents behind a bunch of studios across Melbourne. Students and recent graduates will be granted exclusive access to some of the cities top rated studios, giving an 'inside look' at their day to day routines.

This year will showcase a whole range of different disciplines, and it is recommended you get in quick as tickets will most likely sell out.

So if you want to see what we get up to here at our Collingwood Studio, get on board! It should be a great night. Tickets can be purchased here.

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