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Mark Strachan |
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Lecturer, INTD, ID & PDE |
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Mark is the Academic Leader for Industrial Design, Interior Design, Product Design Engineering and Retail Design. Mark has been in professional practice for almost 20 years having graduated from De Montfort University (Leicester Polytechnic) in 1984 with an Honours degree in Industrial Design (Engineering) and was one of the first students to graduate in Interaction Design when he gained a Master of Design at the Royal College of Art in 1989.
Mark started his career in the mobile communications industry with Vodafone, pioneering the design and development of first generation phones and accessories. Over a 6 year period, Mark engaged in an extensive range of activities encompassing research, design, manufacture and engineering during the formative years of the Vodafone Group. After taking a sabbatical to travel the world, Mark has since worked for both large and small design consultancies as well as running his own practice. During this time he has undertaken a variety of projects in the realms of Product Development, Multimedia and Interaction Design, with clients that encompass banking & finance, IT, telecommunications, through to the toy industry. Design developments include the manifestation of ground breaking intelligent domestic products in the form of the fully operational multimedia Microwave Bank and Intelligent Bin for NCR's Knowledge Lab
