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Top industry names ready for Cheltenham Design Festival

The build up to Cheltenham Design Festival has began, as the big names from the global creative community ready themselves to celebrate innovation and design.

Taking place over the weekend of April 20-22, the festival features innovators, designers and architects.

Regional influences such as Matthew Humphries, chief designer at Morgan Motor Company; textile designer Ptolemy Mann and urban innovator Charles Landry will all play a part in proceedings.

Several sessions throughout the course of the festival will address different aspects of the discipline.

Mark Champkins, inventor-in-residence at the Science Museum, will lead a discussion of the techniques for generating and developing new product concepts, and the former British Inventor of the Year and investment winner on Dragon’s Den will share his tried and tested methods.

Elsewhere, industry greats such as Sir John Hegarty and Kenneth Grange, whose iconic designs include the InterCity 125 high speed train and the London taxi, will discuss ways in which designs can save our future in today’s era of austerity.

Matthew Humphries will also deliver a talk about creating the Morgan 3 Wheeler and landscape designer Dan Pearson discusses his public projects and how open spaces have a tremendous impact on our wellbeing and quality of life.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Tom Keighley .