Design Futures Information

Design Futures is a commercially focused design group that creates competitive advantage through outstanding research, design and development of new products and packaging. Our core design team draws on the highly regarded research and delivery expertise of specialists in the Art & Design Research Centre (ADRC), Cultural, Computing and Communication Research Institute (C3RI) and other research centres at Sheffield Hallam University. Design Futures offers product and packaging research, design innovation and design development services that can be conducted from initial concepts stage through to pre-production prototyping. Within its packaging related services, Design Futures offers structural and graphic design services, alongside packaging development. Product design activities include concept design, appearance and ergonomics, product development and prototyping. We have extensive facilities to support design, analysis and testing, which include finite element modelling capability, 3D Rapid Prototyping (3DP, FDM), fluid and solid interaction simulation capability.