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Nov 12, 2019
1 min

METS 2019

We are excited to say that Dan will be at the METS, in Amsterdam, on the 19th and 20th of November. METS is the largest Marine Trade show...

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Dan Primrose

Jun 19, 2019
1 min

Our new website

having spent the last few weeks and months setting up our We-Sense website, we have now finally managed to find the time to update our...

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Dan Primrose

Feb 12, 2019
2 min

2018 was a very different year....

Wow. What a year 2018 was... As mentioned last year, Dan was fortunate enough to have joined Rachael Tapp at Smart Sail Systems Ltd,...

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Dan Primrose

Mar 9, 2018
3 min

2016. So far....

2016 has been another great year working closely with a range of companies in the plane, train and automobile (and a bit of boat...)...

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Dan Primrose

Feb 1, 2016
3 min

2015. What a year....

2015 was an extremely busy year for Light Black Design..... We have been very lucky to be carrying on the work we have been doing with...

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Some of the projects we were involved with in 2013 & early 2014

Dan Primrose

Apr 17, 2014
2 min

Some of the projects we were involved with in 2013 & early 2014

Continuing on from all the successful projects to date, we continued to work in the aircraft, road car and marine sectors. Of particular...

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Dan Primrose

Feb 1, 2013
1 min

what we did for the rest of 2012....

Conscious that we haven't been very good at updating this website, and having spent most of 2012 working with Simon and Oscar, developing...

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Dan Primrose

Apr 24, 2012
1 min

Dan sets up a new company to run alongside Light Black Design

Earlier in 2012, Dan Primrose and Simon Fry set up new British company called Primrose Fry Technologies Ltd, to work alongside their...

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Dan Primrose

Sep 1, 2011
2 min

Body Engineering of Karsan Taxi

Earlier this year, Light Black Design were contracted by Hexagon Studio to do the full Body Engineering of the critical sections for the...

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Aluminium Tooling for High Quality carbon fibre parts

Dan Primrose

Jun 4, 2011
1 min

Aluminium Tooling for High Quality carbon fibre parts

HIGHER QUALITY PARTS FROM NEW TOOLING METHODS. Light Black Design is currently working with Richard Faulkner Composites in the UK to...

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Dan Primrose

Jun 1, 2011
2 min

Rotating foils on Yacht Rigging - Gybe

In this video we can clearly see how the foils we designed for Future Fibres, in Spain, work as the boat is gybed, in light airs....

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Dan Primrose

Jun 1, 2011
3 min

How we use Catia V5 in the office

Once again, the automotive design offices are in a extremely privileged position to have the most advanced 3D CAD systems as standard....

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Dan Primrose

Jun 1, 2011
2 min

Sprayed Carbon Fibre

As mentioned in previous posts, Light Black Design have been working closely with Bentley Motors in the UK, to help them develop a...

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Dan Primrose

Jun 1, 2011
2 min

Short fibre technology

Throughout Dans career in the automotive design sector, the principal aim of all the materials and processes that we developed was to...

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some lightweight, low cost composite panels

Dan Primrose

Jun 1, 2011
2 min

some lightweight, low cost composite panels

Following on from the forum Dan sat on at the Yacht Racing Design & Technology Symposium in December 2010 www.yrdts.com, here are some of...

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Dan Primrose

Jun 1, 2011
1 min

The "Taxi of Tomorrow"....

Late in 2010 Dan was contacted by Hexagon Studio, in Turkey, to work with them to specify the manufacturing processes for the Exterior...

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Dan Primrose

Jun 1, 2011
1 min

Optimising the composite structure of RIBS

REDUCING THE WEIGHT AND COST OF PRODUCTION RIBs Late in the summer of 2010 we were contacted by a leading manufacturer of RIBs in the UK,...

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Lightweight Chassis concept for Bentley Motors...

Dan Primrose

Jan 25, 2011
1 min

Lightweight Chassis concept for Bentley Motors...

CONCEPT CHASSIS DESIGN FOR BENTLEY MOTORS We were contacted by Bentley Motors, in the UK, to help define the geometry and material...

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Dan Primrose

Jan 25, 2011
1 min

Our work with other industries.....

Light Black Design's work is not limited to just the marine and automotive sectors. Other industries are also interested in learning from...

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Rotating aerofoils for Standing Rigging.....

Dan Primrose

Jan 25, 2011
1 min

Rotating aerofoils for Standing Rigging.....

IMPROVED AERODYNAMICS FOR YACHTS STANDING RIGGING One of the first companies to take advantage of our design and material knowledge was...

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