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Powering a Net Zero Future at the Urdd Eisteddfod

We’re heading to Bio International 2025!

Reflections from the BEDA General Assembly 2025

We’re Exhibiting at Med-Tech Innovation Expo 2025

Uncovering & Strengthening Hidden Innovation in Creative SMEs

Reflecting on my SMART Partnership experience

Looking ahead to The Security Event

Shaping the Future of Design in Berlin

We're going to Naidex 2025

Exploring the Environmental & Social Value of Design

Anna's SODA article highlights design’s role in the Green Skills Revolution

Green Skills Business Networking & Workshop

Jarred's Lightning Talk at Cardiff Metropolitan University

SYMBIO General Assembly in Seville: Advancing Industrial Symbiosis Across Europe

Keys to design success: 4 essential skills for designers

Ensuring Success: How Feasibility Research De-risks Innovation

MEDIA CYMRU IN 2024: A Year in Review

Join Us at Arab Health 2025: Pioneering Innovations in Healthcare

PDR in 2024: Year in Review

3 GOOD DESIGN Awards for 2024

Our involvement in Greening the Screen

Engaging with young audiences in Bergen

Our 24 Hour Design Challenge with Cardiff School of Art & Design

Looking ahead to Anticipate London

Reflections on my first MEDICA trip

Reflecting on my Knowledge Transfer Partnership

Our trip to Design for Planet Festival

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

Patrick's SMART Partnership progress with 3 Sixty

We're going to Design for Planet Festival, Manchester

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

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

Looking ahead to MEDICA 2024

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

New opportunities available to work with us through Media Cymru funding

Making Design Count in the Philippines

Our trip to the London Design Festival

Me wins IDEA Award

We're going to the London Design Festival

Find us at the Creative Business Roadshow, Merthyr

Safia’s Design Thinking Mindset paper published

UK IPO launches new SME financial support scheme

ReGen receives a Green Good Design Award

Our involvement in the Symbio project

PDR to present as part of Research and Innovation week 2024

Meet the Team: Patrick Richards

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

Utilising AI to Enhance Secondary Research Analysis

Sally in Brighton to talk sleep in the city

Presenting CO:RE Cards to DESIGN 2024

PDR and Cardiff Met delegation explore health design collaborations in India

Piotr looking ahead to a busy BEDA Design Forum

CO:RE Cards: Content & Aesthetics

Stand paediatric upright stander wins a German Innovation Award 2024

Our trip to Berlin for the iF Design Awards 2024

Collaborative Dialogues with CO:RE Cards

Jarred to join panel discussion on design to empower marginalised communities

Our Media Cymru team in 2024

Our visit to the Game Developers Conference 2024

Our work with Immersive Queer Placemaking

Building Design Capability in Government – Professor Anna Whicher

Sally talks sleep on BBC 3

We’ve won two iF Awards!

Applying User Centred Principles to GUI Design

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

Turning academic projects into commercial solutions

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

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

PDR wins 3 Good Design Awards for 2023

Team Reflections on 2023

PDR Research in 2023: Year in Review

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

Stand paediatric support system wins German Design Award for 2024

Tokyo to London

Meet us at MEDICA 2023

Lessons from Labs: Anna Whicher to present insights on Government Labs using design at the World Design Assembly Tokyo 2023

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

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

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

A ‘tidal’ wave of enthusiasm for better, greener assistive tech

PDR wins Gold in IDEA 2023 for Tabu*

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

International Research Collaborations at the Osmania Centre for Product Design

Navigating Design Terminology

Meet our new Digital Media and Marketing Officer, Davie Morgan

Clwstwr: a five-year investment in creative innovation

Brace Packaging wins Green GOOD DESIGN 2023 Award

Key Insights from the International Seating Symposium 2023

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

PDR to present at International Design Conference in New York

Introducing the PDR Colour, Material & Finish Library

PDR wins German Innovation Award 2023 for Cercle

PDR receives 2 iF Design Awards for 2023

We are attending the upcoming 2023 IFSEC International event

Meet our new Design Intern, Olivia Goonatillake

Design for Democracy: A stepping stone towards systemic change

Co-designing assistive technology: supporting wellbeing and reducing waste

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

Meet our new Designer User Researcher, Siena DeBartolo

We are attending the upcoming 2023 Naidex event

Clwstwr Final Reports Showcase PDR’s Expertise in Fostering Creative Innovation

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

Meet William Dauncey, Product Designer and KTP Associate

Exploring the Knowledge Transfer Partnership between PDR and V-Trak

Ambiente and the German Design Awards Show 2023

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

Meet our new Design Intern, David Balaam

Explore On Your Doorstep

PDR wins 4 GOOD DESIGN Awards

Meet our new User Centred Designer, Afaf Ali

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

Ambiente 2023: See you there!

A recap of Valencia as the World Design Capital of 2022

Meet our new Design Innovation Specialist, Oliver Evans

Meet our new Business Development Consultant, Michelle Letherby

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

PDR Research in 2022: Year in Review

PDR Consultancy in 2022: Year in Review

Staying Relevant as a Product Designer

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

Our round-up of MEDICA Trade Fair 2022

PDR receives world-leading research recognition from the REF

Design for Democracy at the BEDA Design Forum

Catch up with us at MEDICA 2022

Media Cymru taking funded RD&I Applications

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

Meet our new Product Design Engineer, Ryan Jones

Meet our new Design Consultant, Will Pargeter

PDR lands Red Dot Design Concept Award for 2022!

PDR wins Silver in IDEA 2022 for Umiko Face Mask

A new course launched for Medical Specialists by SPD Academy

Memories from Milan Design Week: The Fuorisalone 2022

Supporting innovation in the creative industries with Clwstwr

The challenges of design in a more environmentally conscious world

Our approach to improving inherited UI design-related issues

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

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

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

Exploring the challenges facing Cardiff’s creative industries

PDR secures 3 iF Design Awards for 2022!

Travels with PDR: To San Francisco and beyond

Meet our new Senior User Centred Designer, Hefin Jones

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

A Year in Research at PDR

New jobs, events & exciting developments: 6 months later for media.cymru

How do we know design has impact?

Why should local governments be using design to create policy?

Why is UCD important to develop social impact?

Triple Win for PDR at the 2021 Good Design® Awards

PDR in 2021: Year in Review

Meet Catriona, our newest User Centred Designer

Why governments should invest in design support interventions for SMEs

How can the creative industries adopt sustainable design?

How we develop innovation in the Life Science Industry

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

How great service design in the NHS develops world-changing services

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

Lessons from the path to Professor, from Anna Whicher

PDR takes Bronze in IDEA 2021 for Shield

Circular Design School 2021

Exploring the role of design within interdisciplinary research

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

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

The past, present & future of patient-specific design

How surgical implants and prosthetics have changed our world, 2 decades later

How Design Support Programmes Help Businesses

Healthy Ageing By Design

Why Service Design Is Integral To Public Sector Innovation

Circular Economy Challenges in the Real World

Introducing the recently launched Global Academies from Cardiff Met

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

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

PDR Wins 4 iF Design Awards, including a Gold!

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

Helping S4C Develop its Offering With ‘User Centred Design’

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

GUI Design: How To Get It Right First Time

The Arts and Humanities Research Council award two Fellowships to PDR

We welcome a new Senior Design Consultant to the team!

Defining Your Next New Product: Why Does It Matter?

Say Hello to Cat

Product Design and the Circular Economy

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

PDR wins an incredible four 2020 GOOD DESIGN® Awards

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

Snoozeal® Wins at the 2020 IDEA Awards

It's Arrived! Unboxing our iF Gold Award 2020

Exploring the Clwstwr Project with Professor Andrew Walters

Trends in Design Policy from Taiwan

German Design Award Winner 2020

An Indian Connection

Ecodesign Reflections on Outdoors by ISPO Part 3: A Design for Life?

Ecodesign Reflections on Outdoors by ISPO Part 2: Including the User in Life Cycle-based Design

Ecodesign Reflections on Outdoors by ISPO Part 1: Design Against Ocean Plastics?

Prof. of Healthcare Applications of Design

How Might We... Prototype Services Better

Istanbul Design Summit 2019

How complex design can be used to shorten surgery time

PDR Wins German Design Award

Next Practice In Design Action Plans - Part 2

Next Practice In Design Action Plans - Part 1

Layr Lifts 2019 German Design Award

Ireland's got the User-Factor

Shapes and Gates

Diseno Para La Vida

Modelling... but not on the Catwalk

Towards a Design Action Plan for NI?

PDR and Cardiff Met Celebrate Successful Creative Clusters Bid

MoJ Showcase: Designing for People in Crisis

User Research to Inform Strategy

Layr secures 2018 iF Design Award

Dual Success for PDR in Good Design Awards