For this guest lecture we were visited by Nick Munro, a award winning product designer who owned his own company.
The presentation began with the story of how Nick advanced in his studies, he originally was an engineer who went to Imperial College London to study engineering and design. He comments on how he uses heroes to define a path and created a term to describe a personal approach called KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid). Nick started to expand his skills and tried out Glassware and later on tried out Ceramics. Next step was setting up shop and creating his personal brand and thanks to PR from the press, Nick’s brand allowed him to push for partnerships with a great number of different people, companies and events including the London Olympics.
The segment of the lecture that interested me was when he started bringing up points about protection of your I.P and the possibilities of your own work being duplicated. He brings up how it’s best to avoid spilling your secrets of know how to competitors otherwise you run the risk of them copying your work. Nick also advice on how the simple stuff are much easier to duplicate in comparison to more difficult stuff.
Overall, while Nick’s own work isn’t really compatible to my own, his experiences with the business side of things allowed me to gather a bit more info in terms of what to look out for in terms of dealing with competitors and things to avoid doing so that my own work doesn’t risk the possibility of being duplicated.
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