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Nicolas Roope launched Plumen in 2011 with Michael-George Hemus. Plumen is an energy-efficient light bulb with design credentials. Six years later, Plumen has become a full lighting company, and the bulbs are now the illumination of choice for hospitality establishments from Bratislava to Jakarta. Nicolas is the driving force behind their product and brand vision….
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Craig Oldham is a designer, educator, writer, publisher, curator, letter-writer, website putter-upper, lamenter, Yorkshireman, and founder of the eponymous practice Office of Craig. He’s worked with a lot of people you will have heard of, and a lot of people you probably haven’t, and his work has been celebrated internationally: on television, in press and…
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Jane Foster is a British textile designer, illustrator, maker and author living and working in Devon with her partner and daughter. Jane creates Scandinavian and retro-inspired designs. By the end of 2017, Jane will have had 17 books published with the majority of these being colourful retro board books for pre-school children. She has also…
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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 2001, Muir has been a Lead Tutor (part-time) on the BA (Hons) Graphic and Media Design course at London College of Communication. In 2009, he co-founded MuirMcNeil, a project-based collaborative with Paul McNeil….
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John Grayson specialises in narrative-based metal work. His practice focuses on exploring through craft, the defunct industrial metal forming and decorating processes employed by Victorian tin toy and Georgian enamel manufacturers. By appropriating the aesthetics associated with these industries, he makes contemporary satirical objects, often in response to political events. What was your first memory…
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I work like an archaeologist, digging amongst our collective forgotten and discarded memories, our lost words, and undervalued objects, remaking the images we associate with our communities, hoping that something extraordinary will reveal itself and that unexpected connections and collisions will emerge. The work I make has an aesthetic economy that allows simple formal gestures…
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I design and make studio furniture in wood. My studio is in central Liverpool, and my work is influence by a set of Japanese design principles developed during a research study in Japan in 2015. What was your first memory of creativity? Playing with sellotape, cardboard and string in my room to try to make…
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