Rick Dickinson graduated from Newcastle Polytechnic in 1979 with a First Class Bachelor of Arts honours degree in Design for Industry.
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13 Facts About Rick Dickinson
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Rick Dickinson joined Sir Clive Sinclair's Sinclair Research Ltd in December 1979, replacing John Pemberton who was leaving Sinclair to head up a new design centre for ITT in Harlow.
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Rick Dickinson was the in-house industrial designer of Sinclair Research Ltd.
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Rick Dickinson saw John Pemberton's design for the ZX80 case through to completion and designed a memory expansion.
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Rick Dickinson went on to design the ZX81, including its touch-sensitive keyboard, a "clear step forward" in home computer design.
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Rick Dickinson met Apple founder Steve Jobs numerous times as they shared ideas for the MacBook in 1994.
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Rick Dickinson Associates created the industrial design, mechanical design, and production engineering design for the first GSM mobile phone "reference phone" design, for Rockwell.
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Rick Dickinson Associates were the designers of the Gizmondo handheld console .
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The following year, Rick Dickinson published a series of images of the ZX Spectrum Next re-imagining the original Spectrum design.
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Rick Dickinson worked on the design of the ZX Spectrum Vega+ handheld games console.
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Rick Dickinson had two daughters, Grace and Daisy, with his first wife Kim.
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Rick Dickinson is survived by them and by his second wife Elizabeth .
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Rick Dickinson died on 24 April 2018 while in Texas receiving further treatment for cancer first diagnosed in 2015.
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