Born to Engineer
Adrian Westaway
Industrial Design Student 2005 and Design Fellow 2008
After completing his Industrial Design Studentship at the Royal
College of Art / Imperial College, Adrian went on to receive an 1851
Design Fellowship in 2008.
Adrian has been able to use some of the expertise created during the
fellowship to found a thriving design consultancy in London. which
allows him to keep in close contact with the leading electronics
manufacturers worldwide. His work continues to use computer vision
techniques, and he was most recently involved in creating an open source
project planning system, called Lego Calendar.
The invention of “Magic Light” won Adrian several awards, and he
became the first to ever receive a James Dyson Fellowship for the idea.
2014 marked an exciting year for the project, with the Technology
Strategy Board awarding the project a grant to explore commercial uses
of the Magic Light, and starting development on the core system which
will take advantage of advances and cost reductions in the technology.
In 2007 when the invention was conceived, the word “gesture” was seldom
used in relation to technology, now it’s difficult to find any
technology that doesn’t incorporate gestures in some way!
