Innovation Fellows & Associates

Anthony Clough
Anthony consults for InnovationRCA and supports business development and incubation of Selected Works projects. He also assists with the Selected Start-Ups programme.

Graduating from Industrial Design Engineering at the RCA in 2005, Anthony's final year project became a Selected Work with support from InnovationRCA. Escape is a system made from a polymer tape that continuously absorbs energy to control a linear motion. Applications include safety equipment for people working at height, delivering aid from helicopters, and personal evacuation from buildings.

In 2006 he started up a venture, received funding and developed a new lighting product that made lamps easier to change so lowering the rate of accidents, lowering the cost of lamp changing to businesses and benefitting those with limited mobility.

Since then Anthony has consulted on a variety of new product introductions, most recently providing design consultancy on an engineering-design Triangle project involving InnovationRCA, Imperial Innovations and the Imperial College Business School.

Prior to studying at the RCA Anthony undertook a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Bristol and worked for five years at Rolls-Royce plc as an engineering designer.

Rombout Frieling
Rombout makes matter move man. Applying interaction design principles (BSc TU Eindhoven and d.school Stanford University) to a larger scale, his work explores how our bodily capacities can be developed in order to provide our global challenges with answers that can be viable in the industrial world Rombout has worked in (designer at therefore design, Siemens).

Projects that are currently in advanced development within InnovationRCA include ~to flupper, providing a novel way to move ourselves vertically through our increasingly vertical cities, and the innovative seating solution ~to siddle.

Rombout holds a Masters of Art with distinction and commendation in Industrial Design Engineering from the Royal College of Art and a Master of Science from Imperial College London. Next to his position as Innovation Fellow at InnovationRCA, is he involved with various design-led start-ups in theNetherlands and the UK and runs his studio Zomaar in London.

Duncan Fitzsimons
Duncan is a James Dyson Innovation Fellow at InnovationRCA where he is currently developing his design, the Crossbreed Foldable Wheelchair Wheel, for commercialisation. With these wheels, a full sized wheelchair can be folded into 2 bags small enough to fit in an overhead locker for air travel for the first time!

Having initially trained as a mechanical engineer, Duncan worked in the field of user centred design and cognitive ergonomics at the Renault Automotive's design centre in France, before coming to London to study Industrial Design Engineering at the Royal College of Art. 

Duncan is a director at Vitamins Design, where he works as design consultant on a wide selection of design and development projects ranging from medical device and furniture design for clients such as Olympus through to interactive installations for public spaces such as Leeds Museum. 

With his work on the foldable wheel Duncan has been a finalist in the Saatchi & Saatchi World Changing Ideas Award and was also selected as one of ten Designs for 2010 by Wallpaper* and Wolff Olins.