Rick Dickinson

Dickinson graduated from Newcastle Polytechnic in 1979 with a First Class Bachelor of Arts honours degree in Design for Industry.

Along with its colour display, engineered by Richard Altwasser, and commercialisation by Sir Clive Sinclair, the Spectrum popularised home computing, coding and gaming.

[14] In 1986, he founded Dickinson Associates, an industrial design consultancy based in Cambridge.

[13] In 1987 he was commissioned by Alan Sugar to create the industrial design concept for Amstrad's first portable computer.

[19] Dickinson met Apple founder Steve Jobs numerous times as they shared ideas for the MacBook in 1994.

In 2016, he designed a wireless patch for a medical system to allow expectant mothers to monitor fetal heart rates.