Company Name: Form Lab Ltd.

Website: www.theformlab.com

Job Title: Technical Director (Owner)

Dates: January 2012 - present

Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK.

Form Lab is a product design and engineering consultancy based at Duke Studios in Leeds, West Yorkshire. We're a micro consultancy offering a range of design and engineering services to larger consultancies and companies involved in the design and development of products across a wide range of industries. To date we've been lucky enough to have worked with some big names on some truly game changing products. You can see examples of my involvement as well as other projects I've delivered in the portfolio section of this site.

I started Greener Designed Ltd. back in Jan 2012 (as was called then) with the vision of building a cleantech company capable of taking an idea and developing it in to a fully fledged sale-able product. By offering design and engineering services to clients we could use the profits generated from these sales used to fund the development of our own products. We re-branded in January 2015 from Greener Designed Ltd. to Form Lab Ltd. with the help of local design agency Passport to give our consultancy services wider market appeal. While our re-brand aims to give us wider market appeal it in no means has diminished our commitment to work on projects and technologies with the goal of eliminating our consumption of non sustainable resources.    

As a micro entity my role is cross functional involving all aspect of managing the business while also delivering on the promises we've made to our clients. Its a challenging role that often requires me to build upon existing, or quickly learn new skills to meet the requirements of the task at hand but I can honestly say it rarely feels like work. 

On a day to day basis this could include meeting a new client to pitch our services, discuss a new project requirement, create a technical specification, statement of work, project plan and associated quotation for works involved. To sketching up concepts, designing mechanism, calculating forces, 3D modelling ideas, using CAE techniques to validate designs, and manage the development process through stage gates to deliver robust products fit for purpose. 

We work closely with a few select freelancers and contractors to allow us to scale our resources up and down as each project requires. This allows us to ensure we stay competitive and have the right skills, at the right time as each project requires. 

Our core services include;

For more information on the services we offer head over to the Form Lab website.