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Designer Q&A: Craftwood
This week we stopped by to meet the design team at Craftwood, Designer Managers Kyle Anderson & Dexter Grimaldi joined Designer Tom Johnson explained their design process and talked us through some of their most exciting case studies. Craftwood’s production office is located at their head quarters in Christchurch with a dedicated sales team is based… Read More >
Designer Q&A: Agnes de Vlin, Lead Designer at Figure2Ground
Figure2Ground is an surface design studio based in Ireland whose designs are characterized by a dynamic geometric statement. Figure2Ground produce surface design concepts and solutions that are scalable, modular and can be engineered for specific components and decorative fabrications in digital, conventional and bespoke production technology. Darragh Murray, studio manager, feels it is the eagerness… Read More >
Designer Q&A: Strand & Hvass and Norgarrd for Ocee Design
During Clerkenwell Design week, we had the opportunity to visit the beautiful Ocee showroom and chat with a few of their designers. In particular we looked at the latest additions to the Four®Family collection. First we spoke with Niels Hvass and Christina Strand who are accomplished danish designers. Their designs are simple and well-balanced very… Read More >
Designer Q&A: Mike Holland, Foster + Partners
Foster + Partners is an international studio for architecture, engineering and design and we were lucky enough to be able to talk to their Head of Industrial Design, Mike Holland. Mike has recently collaborated with lighting manufacturer Artemide, and created the sophisticated ‘Orsa’ pendant light.So Mike, Can you tell us how you got into design? … Read More >
Graduate Profiles: Kingston University
Over the past week we have been profiling design graduates and have received an overwhelming response from both students wishing to be included and from our readers. Today we profile 4 outstanding designers, each will graduate from the BA Product & Furniture Design degree course at Kingston University and will be exhibiting at New Designers… Read More >
Graduate Profile: Bucks New Uni
Over the past week we have been profiling design graduates, the response from both students and our readers has been fantastic. After our enthusiastic response from Sheffield Hallam University students, we also had some exciting responses from students at Bucks New Uni. In this post we meet Sophie Orde, Michaela Springford and Lia Raquel Marques… Read More >
Graduate Profile: Tim Oldroyd
This week we have already taken a look at the work of Sheffield Hallam graduate Till Stackmann and One Year On exhibitor Tim Evershed. Today we will introduce you to Rycotewood graduate Tim Oldroyd. Tim Oldroyd will graduate from Rycotewood with a Design and Make BA (Hons), you can see Tim’s work at the Rycotewood Summer Show, City… Read More >
Designer Q&A: Stephen Walter
On June 9th, the day that the General Election 2017 results were announced, Design Insider met with artist Stephen Walter at his London studio and, in between a few political deviations, we discussed his artwork, current exhibition at the James Freeman Gallery and his work with Newmor Wallcoverings. Can you begin by telling us a… Read More >
Graduate Profiles: Sheffield Hallam University
Over the past week we have been profiling design graduates, the response from both students and our readers has been fantastic. In fact, we have had such an overwhelming response from the pro-active students from Sheffield Hallam University that we have created a group post. In this post you will read about work by Anthony… Read More >
Graduate Profile: Joseph Donohue
As part of our series exploring the work of UK Design Graduates we spoke to Joseph Donohue about his project ‘Human’. Joesph will be graduating from Sheffield Hallam University with an MDes in Product Design. We asked him about ‘Human’: ‘Human is a service that starts with a projector. Designed for the ‘cable-cutter’ generation, Human… Read More >
Graduate Profile: Elliot Macdonald
Hopefully you have already seen our articles featuring some exciting 2017 design graduates. So far in the series we have shown the work of Till Stackman, Harriet Speed, Tim Evershed and Tim Oldroyd. We hope that you have been inspired and that you will continue to enjoy the work we share by UK graduates, including Elliot Macdonald. Elliot Macdonald… Read More >
Graduate Profile: Tim Evershed
In this series we continue to profile graduates from a wide selection of design degree courses. Tim Evershed graduated from Portsmouth University with a Product Design and Innovation Bsc in 2012 and is the founder of Brook Studio. Although Tim did not graduate this year he will be joining the UK’s leading design graduates… Read More >
Graduate Profile: Harriet Speed
This series of posts profiles graduates from a wide selection of design degree courses, and today we are thrilled to introduce you to Harriet Speed. Harriet Speed will graduate with a Furniture Design Foundation Degree from Rycotewood. We asked Harriet to tell us more about her Hinny design: ‘HINNY is an interactive chair that… Read More >