Profile
September 2010
Thirty-one years on from starting his own retail design consultancy at the tender age of 23, Jeff Kindleysides is still relishing taking on new challenges, especially the wider issues surrounding retail and sustainability, he tells Jamie...
16 August, 2010
He may have stumbled across healthcare design by chance but he never looked back. Now Mike Nightingale is a leading thinker on the subject, has a book to his name and a practice of his own
9 August, 2010
From being on tour to light rock bands’ shows to illuminating the British Pavilion for Expo 2010 in Shanghai, lighting designer Kate Wilkins has an eclectic back-catalogue of experience, discovers Jamie Mitchell
29 June, 2010
Rebounding after being hit by the recession, the Irish practice is on board for a 10-year spa project in Algeria plus projects in Liverpool and London
28 June, 2010
Made an MBE in the Queen’s birthday honours, and becoming chair of ACE, the Association for Consultancy and Engineering, ealier this year, the BDP engineer is happy to be a role model for women in the sector
3 June, 2010
From phones to airline cabins and high-speed trains, Paul Priestman and Nigel Goode of award-winning Priestmangoode tell Jamie Mitchell how their product design backgrounds add a uniqueness to their large-scale design approach
6 May, 2010
From the moment he walked into the magical light of a cinema as a child, Mario Nanni knew he wanted to work with light. Now, some decades on and in a spectacular display of lighting prowess, he has illuminated the Milan Opera House in the...
30 March, 2010
As a designer Tim Hunkin is best known for his collaboration on the design and curation of The Human Factor, a show on ergonomics for the Science Museum and other exhibition projects, including exhibits for the Eden Project. But don’t forget...
2 March, 2010
Plans to establish his own, small design practice with a couple of clients didn’t last long – by its second year Daniel Taylor’s Metro Design Consultants was handling million-pound schemes
2 February, 2010
His may not be a name or a face that is instantly recognizable, but read the list of household name products that Tom Karen has designed and you realize that he was one of the leading designers of his generation
5 January, 2010
Since his tenure began in 1999, CEO of the British Council for Offices Richard Kauntze has been tirelessly working to raise awareness of the organisation’s services. He tells Jamie Mitchell what the BCO can do to help businesses of all...
18 December, 2009
Recently appointed as joint interior design director at Scott Brownrigg, American Ken Giannini is getting stuck right in, working hard to fulfil the company’s ambition of being one of the UK’s top commerical interior design practices. He...
17 November, 2009
From a chance encounter at university, the three members of Austrian product design team EOOS recognised they shared a common wavelength, leading to successful projects for, among others, Walter Knoll, Bene and Adidas. Jamie Mitchell talks...
10 November, 2009
He’s created everything - from door knobs for Sir Elton John to luxurious clubs for A-listers and places for ladies who lunch in Harvey Nichols…to kebab shops and park benches in the Midlands. Now interior designer Philip Watts is staging...
22 October, 2009
A former palace now a hotel based on an ‘intimate journal’. A hotel/hospital that presents you with a ‘how-to-manual’ for your next 45 years. You might think Claus Sendlinger, head of Design Hotels has seen it all but, as the ‘lifestyle...
29 September, 2009
Diego Burdi and Paul Filek have a flair for luxury design that, thanks to their enthusiasm and ambition, is now in demand from clients across the world
18 August, 2009
An architect, designer and Royal College of Art professor, Nigel Coates does buildings, restaurants, furniture but not, he’ll say thankfully, offices
24 July, 2009
From a background working with healthcare specialist Nightingale, the three partners went off to work in different sectors before forming Sonnemann Toon, now a specialist practice itself in healthcare projects. FX talks to Gary Toon
June 2009
Firefly’s Peter Veale and John Lau have an impressively eclectic portfolio and, as they tell Jamie Mitchell, they pride themselves on never repeating work
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