Dezeen Promotion: Made in Brunel: Above the Fold is an exhibition by Brunel University design graduates taking place at The Bargehouse Gallery and Oxo Tower Gallery in London from 17 to 20 June 2021.
The exhibition presents 100 design solutions to everyday problems, including an app designed to help people with diabetes control their glucose levels, a personalised asthma management system and a tool to diagnose seasonal affective disorder (SAD).
Other projects include a mindful app made to help people living with rosacea and a system to manage medication that was designed for complex medical regimes.
The Dampen headphones by Paramveer Bhachu feature replaceable water-soluble padding
"Brunel designers are well versed in turning problems on their heads to develop effective solutions," said the organisers. "However, this year, students have taken these problem-solving skills one step further ? discovering how to conduct remote user testing when face-to-face testing was impossible and mastering the poly-jet printers when indoor workshops were inaccessible, were just a few of the adaptations to the design process introduced in 2021."
Omni by Andrew Nagel-Smith is a modular multi-tool with a range of attachments
As part of the final year programme, the students launched the brand Above the Fold, for which they created a podcast and blog to share "essential" design-related content.
"Above the Fold stems from the newspaper terminology denoting th...