Pippa Nissen is a global architect and theatre designer with a client list that reads like a whose who including: the National portrait gallery, the Fitzwilliam museum, wordsworth Grasmere museum amongst many others.

A woman who publicly revealed that it took her until 40 to genuinely believe she was working in the right space, I’m curious how her powerful revelation came about.

Let’s meet Pippa.

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The acoustics market is expected to reach 17.3 billion USD by 2027 and Frankie and his team are trail blazing with their playful and inspiring sustainable acoustical solutions.

With a multicultural pedigree from South Africa and Dubai what are the qualities needed to design in this space and are different design solutions required for different countries and their cultural and climatic differences?

Let’s meet Frankie

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Luke Pearson an industrial designer and one half of the successful design innovation practice: Pearson Lloyd.  

A man known for his mission to simplify the world using design as the vehicle to challenge ideas and problems. Who believes a competitive advantage is born from a deep understanding of human behaviour and the way furniture makes people experience a space.  

Let’s meet the man committed to his interrogation of the word why? and the co-creation of curious relationships. To find out more, what it takes to be of the 3 design companies hired to work for London underground and the man famous for fitting airbags into his design for Virgin Atlantic’s upper-class suites.  And my personal favourite,  a shower valve that means you don’t get your arm wet when turning it on.

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Frankie Boyle is a very cool and industry favourite lighting designer.  She claims her passion for the industry began early on age 7 when diagnosed with a development language disorder.  She then noticed that lighting creates different emotions in people

From a high busy career designing the lighting schemes for 1.5 meter diamonds and costumes at Glastonbury, Frankie openly admits her work life balance is something of a challenge. An advocate of woman’s rights and a lover of the Guilty Feminist podcast crew.

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Chris Duffy has a piece of furniture he designed in the Louvre.  Yes, the world famous museum in Paris where the Mona Lisa sits!

His designs started life from his kitchen back in 2002 and these were then sold on market stalls in Spitalfields and Camden. 

Fast forward to nowadays and his iconic award-winning designs are cherished by the hip and trendy cool crowd.  Taking his design inspiration from a George Bernard shaw quote, ‘we don’t stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.’ Let’s have a chat with the designer who claims his only philosophy is to design items that get him excited.

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Alex Beaugeard, director of design for Lanserring, is our first naval architect on the Designerati podcast with an track record for designing super yachts. He has a masters in industrial design, a prestigious career including designing furniture for the Linley brand, and is an award-winning kitchen designer.

Alex discusses the valuable relationship between emotion and geometry and why historical perspectives about design could help improve the quality of our lives.

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The oxford dictionary describes ‘imitation as the sincerest form of flattery’, while Oscar Wilde disagrees venamently,  describing ‘imitation as the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.’

It would seem our very own Queen agrees with both Oscar and my next guest Dids Macdonald who magnificently received an OBE for her services to interior design.  Dids cofounded ACID (Anti copying in design) and her work has made history by changing many reforms and legislation in this field.

Let’s find out more from the woman changing the legal rules to end copying in the design industry.

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Richard Black is a quintessential example of a multi hyphenate. With a career spanning law, broadcasting and property I’m curious what are Richard’s  personality traits that see him able to adapt to change which is something so many of us find such a challenge.  How has Richard’s diverse career unfolded and what are his tips for managing what appears a to be an unbearably busy schedule on the surface?

Also how did he turn a £300k property into one valued at £1.2 million?!  Tips and tricks please!

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Dee Gibson is a globetrotting, sustainability advocate and London based interior designer.

Who is the Sri Lankan born founder of the prestigious interior consultancy business: Velvet orange and how has her passion for travel influenced her trademark earthy and richly diverse cultural style?

The woman famous for describing ‘fashion as a metaphor for interior design and that interior trends are mirrored on the catwalk.’  Let’s meet the Anna Wintour of interior design.

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Tony and Hayley from Day True are a husband-and-wife team of interior designers that have developed a cult like following. Famously outspoken and known for being the opposite of a wall flower Tony is best known for his no-nonsense straight-talking approach to the design industry.

Who are the design dream team responsible for pioneering the better life approach to homes and interiors and who or what’s next on Tony’s hit list for a potentially prickly discussion?

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Dick Powell is a product designer responsible for break through design concepts such as the cordless kettle and much more. Heston Blumenthal called upon his company to overhaul experiential airport dining while Richard Branson called him to review their consumer space travel for Virgin Galactic.

Who is the man that also moonlights as the chairman of D&AD inspiring government and business leaders to recognise the value of embedding design and creativity into the DNA of British industry?  Oh, and he also creates television formats for C4.

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#Throwback to when we found out all about the architect influenced by his time travelling around India and the energy he adopted from his yogic practices.

Watch the full episode here - https://youtu.be/ctZyqJnPFMQ

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#Throwback to when #biophilicdesigner Oliver Heath invited us into his world of interiors and nature. 🌲🌴🍃

Oliver Heath. The man the design industry considers responsible for merging mental health and wellness with plants and nature in order to create one of the hottest industry topics: Biophilia. 

View the full episode here - https://youtu.be/xL_7kUzMFLo

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Jo love is a designer who believes our interiors ought to enhance our wellness and that our homes can serve us emotionally as well as practically.

How are well-being and clear thinking inspired by decluttering and a discerning curation of home design and fittings?  How is nature influencing design and what are the benefits to our inner zen?

Welcome Jo.

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This #throwback comes from our first episode where Melissa had the pleasure of speaking to fashion and interior design icon Ben De Lisi. Ben talks about how he transitioned from  fashion design into home design and back again. 

Watch the full episode here - https://youtu.be/VvP65CHkyLc

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Wayne Hemingway MBE is one of the UK’s most respected designers.  Raised by his mum and grandparents he regards life as an adventure and together with his wife of over three decades, Geraldine; founded and then sold the brand; Red or Dead.
 
Is there any correlation between adversity and success?  What are the transferable skills needed to turn your hand to designing fashion, to then redesigning a Lancashire town?

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Marcus Steffen knows a thing or two about lighting.  He studied mechatronics at kings’ college London and Many of his projects have won awards or been featured in magazines.
 
Lighting plays an integral part in the way humans experience buildings and their environments.  Light allows us to see and appreciate the beauty all-around of us.  Is it possible for us to appreciate architecture without light?

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Fredrico Sandri is an Italian industrial designer and one part of the dream team: Debiasi Sandri.

What does he have that sees Rak Ceramics commission them to design a range of wash basins and for them to be considered the go to’s for bathroom and kitchen accessory design?

Do Italians do everything best?

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Many people believe it’s Maja Ganszyniec, a graduate of the London college of art that’s won Poland a front row seat in the design world alongside the standard entries of Italy and Sweden.

A successful product designer for IKEA she sites her starting point for design as one of her successes: ‘There are so many objects in the world already. Why make another one?” 

Why indeed.  Let’s meet Maja 

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Raphael Meade is a compassionate carpenter, publicly known for standing up to the bullies on Channel 4’s show Eden.  

Known as the fixer in the industry, who is the man who once had ambitions to be a ballet dancer, moonlights with marshall arts and now finds himself rubbing shoulders with celebs while filming another new C4 show: ‘key to a fortune.’

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Kevin Jabou is an inventor on a mission to create a brand-new global product category.  Not satisfied with inventing a product, he’s created an entire category from his mum’s garden shed with £10,000.  Fast forward to current day we can find him in fashionable East London surrounded by his heavyweight team of executives including Sir Richard Needham ex-chairman from Dyson.

Who is the Crowd cube aficionado (the UK’s largest equity crowdfunding platform, Kaelo attracted 400 investors!) that secured £850k on his first round?   

Who is the product designer with the heart of a marketeer that claims Kaelo was designed to bring a little magic into people’s lives with the first social kitchen appliance?

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Cormac O' Conaire is Irish and a partner and chief design officer at Design partners, a product and innovation agency.  Their unique philosophy is to connect powerful brand messages with meaningful design.  

Cormac can be found as a creative mentor on the Big Idea and moonlights in a band.

Who is the man with a mission to elevate human potential?

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Daniel Gava is to design and architecture as Anna Wintour is to fashion.   

Considered as the bastion of the industry and the go to brand strategy adviser.  I’m in the presence of Italian design royalty. 

Daniel is also a nice guy, loves his family and moonlights as an ambassador of the London school of architecture where he can be found empowering children and young people to have an opinion on their built environment. 

Who is the Italian born design strategist that seems to be as hot as biophilia and sustainability?

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Jan Maurits Loecke from Callison RTKL is on a sustainability mission to educate the construction/architecture and design industry how to achieve net zero.

Buildings are responsible for 40% of greenhouse gas emissions so we can all expect a lot of what we’re familiar doing, to soon change in line with legal industry mandates. 

Jan is here to hand hold us through the imminent process and to share his insight into how each of us can make changes in our businesses right now. Net Zero we are coming for you.

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Morten Villiers Warren is an industrial designer and co-founder of the world famous Native with a CV and client list that reads like a whose who.  Bang and Olufsen and Nespresso to name but a couple.

As the principal designer of Bowers and Wilkins, Morten then worked for Philippe Starke and his unparalleled high standards of design output have won him a reputation for award winning and world class product.

Let’s meet the man behind some of the worlds most cherished innovations.

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