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An internationally acclaimed designer and innovation specialist working with the world’s top brands Simon recently joined Edge Hill University as a Professor of Innovation and Associate Dean of Enterprise and Employability. Simon Bolton graduated from the Royal College of Art as a product designer and gained a PhD from the Business School at Manchester Metropolitan…
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Jonathan is an independent designer who has built his career on using the practice of human-centred design to help organisations achieve new levels of innovation. He began his career in product design, where he designed a diverse range of consumer products, from toys to toilet seats to industrial products for the oil, fishing and forestry…
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Eddie Kirkby is a multi-disciplinary engineer who graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University with a 1st class honours degree in Mechatronics. While studying for his degree, he spent a year as a manufacturing engineer at Vauxhall Motors. He spent some time lecturing and performing research at the university before completing his PhD there in the field…
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Daniel was a Senior Tutor at the RCA and is now Professor of Design at Kingston, as well as founder/director of Fixperts, From Now On and the Maker Library Network. He is an internationally recognised curator, strategic consultant and lecturer in the field of contemporary design. His specialist background as an industrial designer puts him…
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Daniel Charny is a creative director, curator and design educator. He is director of From Now On, where clients include the British Council, Design Museum, Heatherwick Studio, Cathedral Group and William Grant & Sons. Charny was founding curator of the Aram Gallery before going on to curate major shows for the Design Museum. His exhibition…
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Wayne Hemingway is one of Britain’s most acclaimed designers. With his wife and partner Gerardine, Wayne built Red or Dead into a label that received global acclaim resulting in winning the prestigious British Fashion Council’s Streetstyle Designer of the Year Award for an unprecedented 3 consecutive years in 1996-1998. In 1999, having sold Red or Dead…
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Rachel Cooper OBE is Professor of Design Management at Lancaster University, where she is Chair of the Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts and Director of ImaginationLancaster, an open and exploratory design-led research lab. Her research interests cover design management; design policy; new product development; design in the built environment; design against crime and socially…
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