Photo : Richard Aston
About.
Jenk is a design office that specialises in the visualisation, development and realisation of every day products and 3 dimensional objects. The office, based in Oslo, was started in 2009 by Thomas Jenkins who has been working as a designer for around 9 years. Thomas has previously designed for Frost Produkt and Dyson . He is a fellow of the Royal Society for Arts in the UK
Exhibitions.
Norwegian Prototypes - September 2010 - London.
Ambiente Talents - February 2011 - Frankfurt.
Salone Satellite - April 2011 - Milan.
Bio - Thomas Jenkins.
Thomas Jenkins (born 1980) is a British designer based in Oslo, Norway. He started his career in 2002 working for Dyson appliances, and in 2006 moved to Oslo as a senior designer for Frost Produkt.
Thomas attended London South Bank University where he graduated from a degree (1st class) in engineering Product Design in 2002. A course he took as he wanted to learn as much as possible about manufacturing as well as developing his creativity.
Thomas’ work at Dyson involved designing for floorcare, laundry and new product streams. In his time at Frost Produkt, he created designs for a wide range of products, from post boxes for the Royal Norwegian Post Office, Smart Bike systems in Barcelona, Stockholm and Oslo and outdoor interactive light installations. His work with Frost has been exhibited at 100% design in London.
In September 2008 he was invited to attend a Summer School run by the Royal Designers for Industry. Here he worked with and learned from some of the UK’s best designers and following this he was invited to become a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Thomas also runs the blog: if you only ever buy one.
Services.
Design is a problem solving discipline, and any kind of problem solving involves creativity. Jenk believes is that creativity delivers growth to brands and companies. Our creative input can be large or small, that’s why Jenk offers a service tailored to each project. This can start with a creative workshop lasting for half a day, up to a full project of new product development.
Generally our services cover:
Creative Workshops
Industrial and Product Design
Structural Packaging Design
Exhibition Stand Design
Computer Modelling and Prototyping
Production and Manufacturing Support
Process.
The Brief: A great design starts with a detailed understanding of the business problem to be solved, this is the purpose of the brief. Both the designer and client should formulate the brief together with an equal responsibility for the success of the project. Once a brief is agreed a detailed plan of action is drawn up. This plan will be divided into phases. The first phase is typically sketches to visualize of the brief’s solution. After this the number of phases left is dependant on the project’s size. Phases are structured to give meaningful results on paper upon completion. This information can then be evaluated and used to discuss and plan the next phase.