Designing Products that make sense now and in the future

I help companies turn their ideas into meaningful, tangible products. From sketch to aesthetics to design engineering. I focus on strategic, common-sense, sustainable design solutions to develop products that stay relevant in changing times. Providing grounded design. Solving human-centred problems.

Duncan Crosse of DNC Designs

About

Duncan began his career in 2013 after graduating the Creative Product Design course at Bristol UWE with a 2:1 (BSc). In 2014 he completed a year of freelance work & internships for highly-regarded consultancies, such as Realise in Bristol & Studio Davis in Bath, helping develop products that sell to this day. Between 2014 - 2017 he designed Solar Powered Road Signs and Safety Equipment for Solagen Ltd. many of these products still line roads in the UK, Australia and World-wide. He then worked as a consultant at the award-winning, Oxford Product Design Ltd. for over three years. Whilst in their employ he designed numerous products that helped companies launch or extend their product lines. Due to a blanket NDA he cannot disclose this work.

In 2021 he launched as a a solo-practitioner. Since then he has helped to develop products as part of multinational teams at Shark Ninja, led product development sprints with Oxford University and Imperial College London or sub-contracted for established, award-winning consultancies like WMP Creative.

If you would like to meet to discuss your project, please get in touch.

Duncan@dncdesigns.co.uk

Services & Equipment

  • Industrial Design: Front End Product Development, Research, Concept Ideation, CAD Surface Modelling, Keyshot Renders and Animations

  • Design Engineering: Design For Manufacture, Mechanism Design, CAD Design, Inhouse Prototyping (FDM Printer)

  • Management: Project Management, Supplier Liaison, Project Planning and Execution, Network of Talented Freelancers for Large Projects

  • Equipment: Licenses for Adobe Creative Suite, Solidworks 2021, Keyshot 10, Blender & Bambulabs X1 Carbon 3D Printer

  • "Duncan led work on the enclosure of a low-cost biodiversity monitoring device we are developing at Imperial College London. He led the industrial design and manufacturing from conception through to injection moulding and was a delight to work with throughout. Communication was clear (both with us and manufacturing partners), his insights were nuanced, suggestions creative, and above all the delivered product is of a very high quality. Couldn't recommend more highly."

    Sarab Sethi, Project Manager, Imperial College London, 2025

  • "Duncan is an exceptional industrial designer with excellent sketching skills, and a talent for capturing the requirements of the customer quickly in a manufacturable but aesthetically pleasing form."

    Gerard Shield, Managing Director of Printpool Ltd., 2021

  • "I have worked with Duncan on a few projects recently, and every time he has put out great work, on time, on budget and to an exceptional standard. He communicates well throughout the project, with regular meetings to keep aligned, and also takes the fairly chaotic design process and puts it into an useful process. We have participated in a few design sprints together and the outputs are always ready to produce and show to clients and customers. Highly recommended, and we will be collaborating on much larger projects in the future."

    Ryan Smith, Founder of Smith Robotics Ltd. & Electronics Engineer, 2023

  • "It has been a really great pleasure to previously and continue to work with Duncan! His professionalism and quality of work is exceptional. Highly recommend!"

    Diane Le, Founding Member of Oxford University Neurotech Spinout Company, 2024

  • "Duncan is a vibrant and enthused product designer. He has a keen eye for styling and ideation always ensuring that his concepts are not just beautiful but well thought out and realistic."

    Tom Malloy, Principle Design Engineer at Elvie & previously my manager at OPD, 2020

  • "I'm a fussy client as I know what I'm looking for, Duncan managed to put what I was imagining in my head and turn it into some incredible renderings and design work going far above and beyond what I would have thought of. He was highly professional, very creative with a lot of patience and we at Pedal & Post couldn't recommend him highly enough".

    Chris Benton, Owner & Founder of Pedal and Post, 2022

  • "I have been delighted by the series of projects that Duncan has undertaken for Sygensys delivering impactful outputs against tight deadlines. The resulting high standard of presentation helped communicate our key messages to a wide range of stakeholders."

    Andrew Larkins, Chief Executive Officer at Sygensys ltd., 2022

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