Rick Dickinson was the in-house industrial designer of Sinclair Research Ltd. In 1986, he founded Dickinson Associates, an industrial design consultancy.
He designed the ZX80 and ZX81 home computers, including the touch-sensitive keyboard, as well as the rubber keyboard of the ZX Spectrum. He also designed the TV80 casing and Sinclair QL. Dickinson is a graduate of Newcastle Polytechnic, and joined Sinclair before he had completed his degree.
He was also the designer of the Gizmondo handheld console (originally the Gametrac).
External links and references
- Planet Sinclair - Rick Dickinson
- Sinclair User magazine, Modest award winner sets the pace in micro design, August 1982
- Rick Dickinson's photos on Flickr
- ZX80 patent
- ZX81 patent
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