Biography
Daniel is an Academic Strategic Lead at Gray's, leading on commercial and external projects across the school.
He is also a Lecturer in the 3D Design & Craft Dept and works alongside Ben Durack, Matt Wilcock and Aubin Stewart. The department houses a multi-disciplinary design and craft programme that brings together traditional materials and skills, with new technologies and practice.
Daniel is an experienced industrial designer with an interest in product lifecycle and circular economy. He has run a design practice since 2009 specialising in the development of consumer products in various industries and sectors including health, energy, toys, homewares, electricals and lighting. Daniel holds a number of granted patents and design registrations for product innovations.
With a focus and background in industrialised injection moulding for plastics, Daniel has keen interests in new product development using recycled materials and co-founded a recycled plastics design company in 2019 called Origin Plastics Ltd.