1st Edition
Creative Design and Innovation How to Produce Successful Products and Buildings
Using many real-world examples and cases, this book identifies key factors and processes that have contributed to the creation of successful new products, buildings, and innovations, or resulted in some failures. Such factors include the creativity of individuals and groups, their sources of inspiration, the processes of creative design and innovation, and the characteristics of the products, buildings, and innovations themselves.
Much has been written about creativity and innovation, but what helps to foster creativity, enable creative ideas to be translated into practical designs, and ensure those new products or buildings succeed as innovations on the market or in use? This book discusses these elements through the author’s origination and analysis of examples and case studies ranging from the revolutionary innovation of the smartphone, through radical innovations in domestic appliances and sustainable housing, to creative designs of contemporary jewellery. The broad range of examples and cases include product and fashion design, filmmaking and fine art, as well as industrial design, engineering, and architecture, offering lessons for creatives, designers, and innovators from many subject backgrounds. Analysis of the different factors, successes, and failures are presented in text boxes throughout the book to allow readers to easily understand the key lessons from each example or case, with numerous colour visuals, diagrams, and charts for illustration.
This book is a must-read for a broad audience interested in creativity, design, and innovation, including practitioners in design, engineering, architecture, and product management, and students and instructors of those subjects.
Chapter 1. Creativity, design and innovation: introduction and framework
Introduction: Creativity, design and innovation
Sources for the examples and case studies
Sources for theory and analysis
References
Chapter 2. Creativity and innovation in engineering, design, architecture, arts and media
Introduction
Engineering
Industrial design
Architecture
Product and fashion design
Filmmaking
Fine art
Factors, processes and lessons for successful creative design and innovation
References
Chapter 3. Revolutionary innovation: the smartphone
Introduction
Key innovations leading to the smartphone
Precursors to the iPhone
Case study: The iPhone
References
Chapter 4. Radical product and building innovations
Introduction
Case study: James Dyson - Cyclone vacuum cleaners
Case study: The Rover Safety bicycle
Case study: Derek Taylor – the COP26 building-integrated renewables house
References
Chapter 5. Major product and building innovations
Introduction
Case study: The Dunlop pneumatic tyre
Case study: Oxley Woods prefabricated eco-homes
References
Chapter 6. Innovative products and buildings
Introduction
Case study: Barking Bags
Case study: Robert de Grey, modernist architect
References
Chapter 7. Creative product designs
Introduction
Case study: Nichola Clarke, designer and art teacher
Case study: Open University student T-shirt designs
References
Chapter 8. Guidelines for successful creative design and innovation
Introduction
The socio-technical and market context
Creative individuals and organisations
The motivation to create and innovate
Starting points and inspirations for creativity and innovation
Effective creative design and innovation processes
Characteristics of successful products, buildings and innovations
Intellectual Property protection
Continuing improvement and innovation
Unsuccessful products, buildings, and innovations
References
Biography
Robin Roy has a BSc in Mechanical Engineering and an MSc and a PhD in Design Technology from the University of Manchester. After engineering apprenticeships in the UK and Sweden, and a short period of teaching in the USA, he joined the Open University in 1971 as one of the first lecturers in Design. At the OU he has contributed to many courses and led many research projects on design, innovation, and the environment, and in 1999 was awarded a personal chair in Design and Environment. After retiring in 2012 as one of the longest serving OU academics he became an Emeritus Professor and is still active in teaching, writing, and research.
“In Creative Design and Innovation, Robin Roy provides an in-depth critical, contemporary analysis of some familiar and less familiar product and architectural designs. Roy illustrates the origins of creativity and the critical elements and lessons for innovation success.”
Rachel Cooper (OBE), Distinguished Professor of Design Management and Policy, Lancaster University
“No-one is better qualified than Robin Roy to write this book. It includes engaging case studies on innovations such as the smartphone, pneumatic tyres, sustainable housing, and many more, with clear explanations of why they succeeded or proved unsuccessful in practice.”
Vivien Walsh, retired Professor of Innovation, Alliance Manchester Business School
“Robin Roy is a master of drawing fundamental lessons from case studies of designers. This book unpacks the mysteries of the design and innovation process underpinning a broad range of disciplines. It provides practical guidance for aspiring innovators and a template for design researchers exploring case studies of designing.”
Peter Lloyd, Professor of Design Methodology, TU Delft
“There are many books on creativity, design and innovation, but what intrigues me about this one are the extensive case studies that bring its insights to life. Particularly valuable are the built environment examples, not often included in books on innovation.”
Bettina von Stamm, Innovation Philosopher, Founder Innovation Leadership Forum
“Drawing on multiple case studies, Creative Design and Innovation provides grounded insights on design and innovation which should be of immense value to a wide audience, including most notably, practitioners, academics and students.”
Matthew Cook, Professor of Innovation, School of Engineering and Innovation, The Open University
