HILARY COTTAM
Design Strategist (1965-)
Designer of the Year 2005
From radically rethinking the design of the UK’s schools, the prison system and health service, to her work as director of the Design Council’s experimental RED team, HILARY COTTAM (1965-) is championing a more inspiring and efficient approach to design in the public sector.
Design affects every area [...]
Entries from December 2008
December 30, 2008
Great Designer :: HILARY COTTAM
December 27, 2008
Great Designer :: LUIGI COLANI
LUIGI COLANI
Translating Nature
Aircraft and product designer (1928- )
03 March – 17 June 2007
“Whenever we talk about ‘biodesign’ we should simply bear in mind just how amazingly superior a spider’s web is to any load-bearing structure man has made. From this insight, we should look to the superiority of nature for the solutions. If we want [...]
December 22, 2008
Great designer :: DEREK BIRDSALL
DEREK BIRDSALL
Graphic Designer (1934-)
As a child, DEREK BIRDSALL (1934-) loved stationery shops: infinite stacks and reams of paper, pads, notebooks and ledgers; instruments for writing, duplicating and erasing; virgin ink and paper in endless configurations of possibility. He speculates that this feeling was inherited from his grandfather, a clerk in a chemical works, and [...]
December 19, 2008
Great designer :: GEORG BALDELE
GEORG BALDELE
Product+Furniture Designer (1968-)
GEORG BALDELE is a designer-sculptor who combines industrial materials with hand-working techniques to create exquisite installations. Born in Austria, he moved to London in 1996 to study at the Royal College of Art.
One of the new generation of London-based designers to emerge in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Georg Baldele [...]
December 16, 2008
Great Designer :: RICHARD ROGERS
RICHARD ROGERS
Architect (1933-)
Richard Rogers + Architects – From the House to the City
24 April – 25 August 2008
One of the most influential British architects of our time, RICHARD ROGERS (1933-) has established himself and his practice, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, at the forefront of today’s architecture industry through such high-profile projects as the [...]
December 12, 2008
Great Designer :: PETER SAVILLE
PETER SAVILLE
Graphic Designer (1955-)
Until 26 November 2006
Ever since his first work for the fledgeling Factory Records in the late 1970s, PETER SAVILLE has been a pivotal figure in graphic design and style culture. In fashion and art projects as well as in music, his work combines an unerring elegance with a remarkable ability to [...]
