Mark Champkins

Mark Champkins
FRSA
Born (1977-04-25) 25 April 1977 (age 49)
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom
EducationUniversity of Cambridge, Royal College of Art
OccupationProduct designer

Mark Champkins FRSA (born 25 April 1977) is a product designer best known for his 2007 appearance on Dragons' Den.[failed verification]

Career

Champkins studied manufacturing engineering at the University of Cambridge and industrial design engineering at the Royal College of Art in London. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an industrial advisor to Cambridge University Engineering Department.[failed verification]

Champkins' design for a line of "self-heating" crockery was awarded British Invention of the Year at the British Invention Show.[when?] [failed verification][failed verification]

In 2004, Champkins won a business award from NESTA and founded Concentrate Design, a company that develops products intended to help pupils to concentrate at school.[citation needed] Champkins pitched the enterprise on Dragons' Den in 2007, winning an investment from Peter Jones.

In 2011, Champkins was named inventor-in-residence at the London Science Museum and tasked with designing products inspired by the museum collection.

Champkins is the author of The Big Book of Celebrity Inventions.

References

  1. ↑ "BBC Two - Dragons' Den: How to Win in the Den, The Idea". BBC.
  2. ↑ "Biography on Smarter Products Website".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  3. ↑ "Home page | CUED undergraduate teaching". teaching.eng.cam.ac.uk.
  4. ↑ "Royal College of Art Innovation Unit Website". Archived from the original on 20 August 2010.
  5. ↑ "Tomorrow's World". Archived from the original on 9 September 2011. Retrieved 29 November 2009.
  6. ↑ "Discovery Channel". Archived from the original on 9 October 2011. Retrieved 23 November 2009.
  7. ↑ "Mark Champkins: The Jamie Oliver of the design world". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 18 February 2009. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
  8. ↑ "Simply Business". Archived from the original on 2 November 2010. Retrieved 10 March 2010.
  9. ↑ "Science Museum Website". Archived from the original on 18 December 2011. Retrieved 23 January 2012.
  10. ↑ "The Big Book of Celebrity Inventions". HarperCollins Publishers UK. Retrieved 3 March 2022.