Jamie Billing

Jamie is a designer, academic and researcher. He is Co-Founder of Co-oproduct – the UK based online portal for the free-sharing of product design ideas focusing on MiY, Creative ReUse & Open Product Design.

Jamie graduated from MA Industrial Design at Central St Martins in 2001 and has worked as a consultant in Product Design, Graphics, Branding and New Media. In addition to his role as Technical Director of Co-oproduct, Jamie also works as a Senior Lecturer in Product Design at Nottingham Trent University in the UK.

Jamie has a utopian vision for product design and he believes that products, ideas and the associated knowledge should be openly shared, benefiting everyone… not just a few individuals and share-holders.

His most recent publication:

‘Open Design: Driving Product Design Innovation through New Collaborative Working Practices and Professional Models’, (2011) by Billing and Cordingley in Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal, Vol 5, Issue 5, pp.299-312

Email: jamie@co-oproduct.org

Twitter: @jamie_billing

Co-oproduct: Profile page

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