Adam Thorpe is an established Research Fellow with DAC at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London.  His research activities are practice-based and he has contributed to the development of research methodologies that seek to maximize stakeholder value through application of DAC principles and research dissemination strategies that utilise market intervention to promote best DAC practice via product benchmarking. Current research activities include “Bike Off” research project that seeks to generate anti-theft strategies for bicycle parking design and implementation and PauLA (Product Authenticity and Labour Assurance Scheme).  He also co-founder and design partner of Vexed Generation Clothing Ltd (Est 1996), Karrysafe Ltd (Est 2002) and Broke Bitter & Twisted (Est 2002). Ongoing collaboration between Vexed Generation and Puma International AG has produced the globally distributed, co-branded apparel collections.  Exhibition and retail environment design outputs include Vexed Generation retails spaces and numerous international exhibition stands and installations.