{"id":616,"date":"2016-02-26T13:10:54","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T13:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/?p=616"},"modified":"2016-02-26T13:10:54","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T13:10:54","slug":"a-welcome-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/2016\/02\/26\/a-welcome-return\/","title":{"rendered":"A welcome return."},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week we were delighted to welcome Tina Gray, Head of Innovation and Design at Mayborn Group , to the University. Tina gave a special guest lecture entitled \u201cWorking in Design, Perspectives from a leading design and manufacturing company\u201d<\/p>\n

Mayborn\u00a0are best known for their\u00a0Tommee\u00a0Tippee\u00a0brand which can be found in the major\u00a0highstreet\u00a0retailers.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Their feeding, weaning and monitoring products are used by parents and\u00a0children around\u00a0the world. Tina gave some insights into the\u00a0Mayborn\u00a0design and development process from briefing to production, and some of the issues that operate in this highly competitive market.Tina also discussed the skills and qualities that she looks for when recruiting designers.<\/p>\n

After the lecture Tina spent the afternoon in the Product Design studio talking informally with\u00a0students\u00a0“one-to-one” and in small groups.<\/p>\n

Tina and Mayborn are great friends of the course and it always pleasure to welcome our friends to give specialist lectures.<\/p>\n

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Last week we were delighted to welcome Tina Gray, Head of Innovation and Design at Mayborn Group , to the University. Tina gave a special guest lecture entitled \u201cWorking in Design, Perspectives from a leading design and manufacturing company\u201d Mayborn\u00a0are best known for their\u00a0Tommee\u00a0Tippee\u00a0brand which can be found in the major\u00a0highstreet\u00a0retailers.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Their feeding, weaning and … Continue reading “A welcome return.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,5,33,39,17,47,29],"tags":[15,32,35,42,8,7],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fi1x-9W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}