Mr Stuart Lawson

UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON, 2004-2006
Lecturer, University of Brighton (Faculty of Engineering). Product Innovation & Development MSc; Module Leader of the Prototyping, Materials & Manufacturing component

DESIGN CONSULTANT, Stuart Lawson Design & Development 2003-2006
Furniture design. Clients included Marks & Spencer and Homebase 

DESIGN CONSULTANT, Derhaag Lawson 2001-2003
Anglo-Dutch partnership specialising in furniture design, shop interiors and retail display. 

DESIGN CONSULTANT, at the third stroke 1999-2001
Supported by Deutsche Bank. Commissions ranged from restaurant interiors to furniture and exhibition design. Examples of the partnership’s work were included in the 2000 New Design & Technology at the Design Museum in London.

Furniture Design: An Introduction to Development, Materials and Manufacturing (to be published by Laurence King in 2013

Enabling the Postgraduate Development of Enhanced Research Methodologies and Analytical Models for Primary Research (Conference Paper & Proceedings E&PDE 2011)

Are Entrepreneurship and Disruptive, Rather than Sustaining Innovation, Appropriate as Prime Foci for Product Design Curricula? (Conference Paper & Proceedings E&PDE 2012)

• Current practice and innovation in materials and manufacturing processes related to furniture. Also, furniture design history – predominantly related to materials and manufacturing
• Design Pedagogy – particularly linked to research methodologies for product and furniture design

• New Product Development
• Research for Design
• Professional Practice

• BA (Hons) Three-Dimensional Design for Production (University of Brighton, 1994-1997)
• MA RCA Design Products (Royal College of Art, 1997-1999)

• Product Design BA (Hons)
• Product Design BSc (Hons)
• Product and Furniture Design BA (Hons)
• Furniture Design BA (Hons)
• Design Products MDes 
• Product Design MA

• Expert Advisory Group Member: DSTEM Project (University Alliance & Design Council Collaboration). 2012-

 

• Royal Society of Arts (RSA): Fellow (2010-)

 

E&PDE 2010 When Design Education and Design Research Meet...’ by Design Education, The Design Society & the Institute of Engineering Designers: Trondheim, September 2010.
Conference Paper presented. Author; Stuart Lawson. Trip and conference funded by Department of Product & Interior Design

E&PDE 2011 Design Education for Creativity and Business Innovation: London, September 2010.
Conference Paper presented. Author; Stuart Lawson. Trip and conference funded through KTP Staff Development fund.

Areas of expertise: Domestic & Contract Furniture Design / Expert Witness related to furniture design.

 

• Deborah Jewison. PhD (2nd supervisor)
• Frederieke Begeman. MPhil (2nd supervisor)

Active-Stage Storage Primary Research Study (Initial study). 
FUNDING: Design and New Product Development Research Cluster-funded.
COLLABORATION: DMU Design Products & the Furniture Industry Research Association [FIRA] (Jan-May 2010). Principle Investigator: Stuart Lawson.