University of Cambridge

Royal College of Art

Harvard Business School

Imperial College London

Developing new products, partnerships and knowledge to enable the LEGO Group to achieve its sustainability goals. Masters student (MSt) in 'Sustainability Leadership' at Cambridge University.

the LEGO Group

Sustainability Transformation Learning Lead

Consulting with Licensing and Extended Line (LEL) to set up an incubator to investigate how to transition LEGO products and packaging to more sustainable materials and processes.

Creative Director - LEGO LEL 

Lead in (Top Secret) Technology Incubator developing new hardware and types of play

Creative Director - Creative Play Lab

Category Director for LEGO's coding & connected products including MINDSTORMS & BOOST.

Creative Director - Build and Code/Connect

Creating computer kits, hardware and software to empower a new creative generation to make and play with technology, not just consume it.

Kano Computing

Design Director

Design consultancy for clients including Adidas, BBC, Bremont Watches, Dr Oetker/Radeberger, Samsung and SES Satellites.

www.markchampkins.com

Mark Champkins Ltd

Director

Designing products inspired by the museum’s collection intended spark an interest in science & engineering. Running competitions & creating objects to help publicise events & exhibitions. Created over one hundred new products for the Museum Shop along with commissions to design bespoke products for The Queen and Professor Stephen Hawking.

Science Museum

Inventor in Residence

Worked with the Engine Group on Samsung's 'Smart School' initiative to investigate technologies to support the 'connected school'

Samsung Electronics

Design Consultant - Concentrate Design for Samsung

Design of a lunchbox and accessories to accompany the launch of new "Planet Lunch" range of healthy lunchtime foods.

PepsiCo

Design Consultant - Concentrate Design for PepsiCo and Wolff Olins

Advised agency on technical requirements, providing engineering input and design work to achieve marketing campaign objectives. Examples include identifying the most feasible way to fire a frozen meat pie from Dover to Calais, and creating a range of talking recycling bins.

Mother

Design Consultant - Concentrate Design for Mother Advertising Agency

Refining the design of the Adspec - glasses with liquid filled lenses whose prescription can be manually altered (for distribution in Africa and the developing world). 100 million school-aged children cannot read the blackboard in class. The issue is that often that they do not have access to an optician or eye care professional. Adspecs are one part of a solution.

Centre for Vision in the Developing World

Design Consultant - Concentrate Design for The Centre for Vision in the Developing World

Concentrate is an award winning new company that designs and manufactures products for schools, backed by UK Entrepreneur Peter Jones after a successful pitch on BBC Dragons Den. We develop innovative products to help children concentrate at school by identifying the reasons that they might be distracted, uncomfortable or unable to focus. The products include the Chairpadbag; Bottlecoolerpenholder, Pre-chewed pencils, Mugs of Authority and Food For Thought Lunchbox.

Our products sell across the UK at leading Supermarkets and Department stores, and are available on-line from our website. 

As a business we also undertake freelance design work, including developing a pair of reading glasses with liquid filled lenses whose prescription can be manually altered (for distribution in Africa and the developing world), and a set of body sensing apparatus for monitoring the health and fitness of post-op heart surgery patients and elite athletes.

Concentrate Design Ltd

Founder/Director

Design of earpieces and user interface for new body sensing network technology, as a demonstration to attract investment.

Design Consultant - Concentrate Design for Imperial College

Conducted a twelve month project to identify how design can influence standards of primary education in UK schools. Work included ethnographic research and inclusive design.

The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, Royal College of Art

Research Associate

Sponsored to patent and develop my Self-Heating Crockery in partnership with Wedgwood. The Crockery won "British Invention of the Year 2002/3" and was featured on BBC Tomorrow's World, CNN News and the Discovery Channel.

InnovationRCA

Design Engineer

Concept generation, detail design and the machining of prototypes.

PDD Group Ltd

Industrial Designer

Involved in the design and development of the SIAscope skin cancer diagnosis machine.

Cambridge Design Partnership

Worked as a design engineer on LCD displays (specifically studying birefringence effects) for solid state avionic instrumentation.