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Samuel Wilkinson

Whilst at Ravensbourne College,  Samuel Wilkinson won several design awards, including the RSA award and D&AD New Blood. He then worked for leading consultancies such as Tangerine, Fitch:London, PearsonLloyd and Conran, working on award winning projects for British Airways, Audi, LG, Samsung, and Virgin Airways. Samuel set up his eponymous studio in 2008. The studio’s…

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Nicolas Roope

Nicolas (Nik) Roope is Co- Founder + Creative Director- Plumen. Nik is the driving force behind our product and brand vision. Outside of the lighting world, Nik is world renowned as a design, digital and marketing innovator. As co-founder and Creative Director of Poke digital agency, he has helped shaped the online brand presence for…

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Jane Foster

Jane Foster is an award winning illustrator, author and textile designer working with some of the world’s leading brands including IKEA, Habitat, Waitrose and Apple. Her work is strongly influenced by mid-twentieth century Scandinavian design, particularly the work of Marimekko, Lucienne Day and the artwork by Dick Bruna and Alain Gree. Jane currently has a…

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Claire Norcross

Claire Norcross is an award-winning lighting designer based in Preston. Claire’s practice is closely rooted to her beginnings as a ‘designer maker’ within the craft market, and while she has produced bespoke designs and exhibitions pieces, she is best known for the commercial lighting designs for retailers such as Habitat and Made.com. Claire’s signature style…

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Craig Oldham

The Office of Craig Oldham is the eponymous practice of founder and creative director Craig Oldham. Working across numerous disciplines, the studio creates brands, publications, websites, films, exhibitions, and objects – sometimes just for the joy of it! Craig’s work has been recognised by Art Directors Club, D&AD, Design Week Awards, Creative Review, New York…

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Hamish Muir

Hamish Muir was co-founder of the London-based graphic design studio 8vo (1985-2001), and co-editor of Octavo, International Journal of Typography (1986-92). Since 2002 he has taught part-time on the BA Graphic and Media Design Course at the London College of Communication. Member AGI. MuirMcneil was founded in 2010. The London-based studio focuses on exploring parametric…

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Dave Kirkwood

Dave Kirkwood founded his art and design practice, DaveKirkwoodStudio, in 2007. Alongside their client work they develop experimental working models for generating unique solutions to core brand visual communications problems. Their commercial work is underpinned by a body of self-initiated projects and stimulated by the teaching they undertake. Previous projects include 3hundredand65 – a graphic…

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