Who ’s who 2008 Katrin Andersson Advisor and co-pilot based in London with her roots in Sweden. A catalyst for change, curious, always up for a challenge she supports change in individuals, companies and organisations. Katrin’s diverse experience includes senior leadership responsibility, mentor and trustee commitments.

Melanie Andrews RSA Manager of the Royal Designers for Industry, and Co-ordinator of RSA Design Directions. Studied at Camberwell, worked for the , and the ICA. I am inspired by design’s ability to effect positive change in society.

Jennifer Barnard Industrial design engineer, living in Cheltenham. Undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from Bristol University and Masters in IDE from RCA. Enjoy mountain biking, trail running or getting muddy and wet through some sort of activity. Love travel and adventure and hate creepy crawlies!

Julian Brown RDI ; Porsche Design Studio Austria; Co-formed Lovegrove and Brown Studio, London; StudioBrown since 1990. I have never been very comfortable with the ‘design’ word, and prefer the idea of the pursuit of ‘intelligent patterns of life’... and remind myself that many are invisible.

Nick Butler RDI Founding partner BIB Design Consultants 1967. Worked extensively in the Pacific Rim as well as holding a number of consultancy roles in Europe. Uniting industrial design, engineering and technology with broader social concerns, some examples of his wide ranging work include: medical devices, JCB Sitemaster Diggers, Minolta cameras, Durabeam torches, Dunhill watches and Mont Blanc pens, and Connect 4 children’s game.

Alice Casey Alice works for Involve – a not-for-profit organisation specialising in research and next practice in public participation. Her specialist interests include children and young people’s participation, using new technologies to engage online and off. She blogs on participation here: http://cased.wordpress.com/

1 Miles Chambers I’m a self taught furniture designer and maker. I handcraft each piece with the aim of reflecting the value of wood – where it comes from, its design potential, and what those designs mean to people.

Stephanie Chen Rocket scientist turned designer; ready to explore, one earthly project at a time. Penchant for all things food-related, a taste for sustainability and an extreme desire to hike mountains in Nepal.

Thomas Corrie I studied architecture at Sheffield University, culminating in a thesis project for a monastic prison. Having previously worked for a small practice in Newcastle, after graduating I joined Hopkins Architects in 2006 to work on a building for Yale University.

Mike Dempsey RDI Graphic designer. Founded CDT Design in 1979. Has a new life as Studio Dempsey. On the way has had six children, seven houses, two divorces, five cats, two dogs. Won ten D&AD Silvers and a Gold. Member of AGI, was a President of D&AD and past Master of the Royal Designers for Industry.

Max Fordham RDI I went to school at Dartington Hall and the experience is an important part of my attitude to design and engineering; creativity was encouraged, but it also emphasised conventional academia. After qualifying with a science degree I chose building services engineering, which has given me the scope to combine creativity with scientific thinking to help design buildings to meet the pressure of global warming.

Thomas Fritz I studied architecture at the University of Stuttgart and I’ve always been interested in all kind of fine arts, as well as maths and physics. Architecture is, in my view, the perfect combination of them.

2 David Gentleman RDI David Gentleman is a painter, designer, illustrator and writer, well known for his mural on the underground at Charing Cross, for his books on Britain, London, Paris and , and for his postage stamps. He has always worked on his own.

Kenneth Grange RDI Kenneth Grange set up his own practice in 1956. A founding partner of Pentagram in 1972, his multi-award-winning work includes cameras for Kodak, the Inter-City 125 for British Rail, pens for Parker, domestic appliances for Kenwood, bus shelters for Adshel, and the London taxi-cab. He now works as a consultant and is a Visiting Professor at the RCA.

Catherine Greig I am a designer who loves building dens, growing vegetables and has many collections: buttons, badges, fifty pence pieces, teacups and stories being some of my favourites. I like to discover social histories over cups of tea before designing anything.

Claire Hadley Claire Hadley (formerly known as Claire Turner until her marriage to George earlier this year) is a graphic designer. London born and bred, she dreams of living in a cottage by the sea and spending her days writing novels.

George Hadley Born in London, raised in Oxfordshire, I dreamt of playing cricket for England but creativity intervened. Three years at Kingston University and a few stamps in my passport later, I’m a graphic designer with four years under my belt.

Alistair Hall RSA I am mainly a graphic designer, regularly a blogger, sometimes a photographer, occasionally a tutor, and recently a mentor. I run the graphic design studio We Made This, and playing with words and pictures makes me smile.

3 Liam Halligan I’ve spent most of my adult life as a journalist – for The Economist , The Financial Times and then Channel Four News. In recent years, I’ve shifted into business. But as an incorrigible “boat-rocker”, I still dabble in journalism.

Matthew Hilton RDI Matthew Hilton graduated from Kingston Polytechnic in 1979 when he started to design and manufacture a range of objects using low-tech casting techniques. In 1985 Matthew set up Matthew Hilton Design Studio: current clients include SCP (Balzac chair), Driade and Ercol. The furniture company Matthew Hilton was launched in 2007 to produce high quality furniture in small quantities, using hand-skills based manufacturing.

Kien Hoang Trained as a structural engineer and currently working in the Bridge Group of Buro Happold, Kien has been involved in the design of several technically interesting buildings and bridges both in the UK and abroad. He thinks engineering is cool.

Margaret Howell RDI Studied Fine Art, Goldsmiths College. Set up own design studio and workshop in 1970, employing a group of skilled shirt machinists. Today, the flagship shop in Wigmore Street, London combines interest in post-war British design, sold along- side the clothing collection.

Thomas Jenkins Thomas Jenkins, born 1980. Product designer, graduated 2002. Living in Oslo, working for Frost Produkt.

Stephanie Jerey I moved to London from Germany almost two years ago to work as a freelance graphic designer. So far I enjoy the city’s unique local details and places but I do miss my Vollkornbrot and Laugenbroetchen!

4 Sonya Kashmiri Between my BA and MA at Cordwainers I worked for several sports footwear companies. My MA focussed on setting up a high-end accessory label with cleanly designed products using sustainable materials. The label is now in its third season and continues to grow.

Perry King RDI I was born and trained in the UK and went to work in Italy to gain a couple of years of experience in the 1960s. I have lived and worked there ever since. I usually enjoy things.

Alex Laird I am a medical herbalist working in breast cancer and dermatology. Another passion is my vision for Living Medicine, a world centre for herbal medicine and food to revive our use of plants in healthcare and link healing gardens worldwide.

Andrew Lang Andrew runs a versatile industrial design practice. Formed in 2003, it is perhaps best known for the Cycloc cycle storage system. Previously he worked with several London design practices before a period of study at the RCA.

Peter Legg Currently designing innovative outdoor products and garden furniture for mass market retailers such as B&Q, Homebase, and John Lewis. Featured in Blueprint magazine, where my work was hailed as ‘highly engineered and beautifully produced’.

Brit Leissler Brit Leissler is a product designer based in London. Since she graduated in 2007 from the RCA she has been busily engaged in establishing her own London based »Shoot the Stylist!« design studio, having undertaken design consultancy and commissioned work for various companies, as well as working on self-initiated projects.

5 Sara Leonor It’s been more than eleven years since Sara fell in love with design. Since then, Sara has been involved in over eighty different projects for both Estudio IADE in Madrid, and currently for B3 Designers in London.

Robin Levien RDI Robin Levien and his partner Tricia run a design practice of seven people designing products for the home called Studio Levien. The core competence of the studio is ceramics and they have designed many successful ranges of tableware and bathroom ware, products for both ends of the alimentary canal as someone wittily observed.

Trevor Stephen Lewis Structural Engineer working with Buro Happold Los Angeles specializing in innovative structures such as glass clad cable net walls and grid-shells. Interested in the relationship between force and form of a load bearing structure, in particular geometrically non-linear structures.

Chris Lynas I work in the Future Projects Office of Airbus UK. I’m the leader of one of three nationally-based but transnationally managed overall aircraft design teams. My work is aircraft design, but I’m also interested in graphics, data representation and woodworking.

Rachel Manning Since graduating from Brighton University I am currently working as a designer at Together Design, London, where I have been for the last year and a half. Along with a good grid I do love a giggle.

Nicholas Marsh Nick is a service designer at Engine Service Design where he has designed services for clients such as Norwich Union, Nokia, BAA and Orange. He’s currently working with Mercedes-Benz to re-design their after-sales services, although he rides a folding bike to work.

6 Ed McCann Summer School Director … I am large & loud (allegedly) … I am a father and husband … I am an engineer … I have many questions and a few answers … My friends are like my socks… long lasting, well worn and smelly!

Riccardo Merello I have always been fascinated by structures, may these live in the worlds of geometry, linguistics, mathematics and nature. As an engineer, I devote most of my time to investigating the beauty inherent in systems and structures.

Timothy O’Brien RDI Theatre designer. Born in India. Head of Design ABC Television 1956 – 65. Associate Artist of the RSC. Has worked for The National, Royal Opera House, ENO, The Kirov, La Scala. Designing Wagner’s Ring Cycle for Graham Vick, to be completed in 2009.

Gavin O’Carroll Gavin is an interactive media designer and creative entrepreneur. Gavin recently became a NESTA Creative Pioneer for MakeMode; a web design consultancy and won NESTA seed-funding to develop Rememble.com; a new type of media-sharing web service. He founded the Digital Health Service in Spring 2008.

Jonas Piet I like to see myself as an enthusiastic and explorative designer. Trained as an industrial design engineer in the Netherlands, I worked there independently for several years. Since February I enjoy designing new kinds of public services in London.

Camila Prada Hello there! I’m a Canadian girl living in the UK. I’ve had my 15 minutes of fame as a designer collaborating with Rosenthal on a quirky, character-based collection called Pepe and Friends. More 15 minute slots in the works!

7 Rachel Redding I graduated in 2005 and have since been working for Flint and Neill Structural Engineers, mainly on bridges of various types and sizes, and communication masts. I live with my husband in South London and am expecting my first child in October.

Jim Rokos Originally a model-maker, then a photographer’s assistant, then an extra, Jim went on to design a cat food bowl. After teaching at a special-needs school in London, he completed a Master’s degree in Industrial Design, and is now interested in creative research.

Jonathan Shaw In 2006 I set up Goodness-inc to develop personal projects. The first product launched was BookBeasts, a range of interactive bookmarks for children, sold through Borders and Europe. I also work as a freelance product designer on luxury packaging projects.

Andrea Siodmok Andrea is a trained product designer, with a PhD in Virtual Reality. As Chief Design Officer at the Design Council she is responsible for developing new design thinking and practice. She has given keynotes on design and travelled widely in Asia, Australasia, America and Europe – the maddest being flying from London to Tokyo for a long weekend.

Thea Swayne Thea is a graphic designer, researcher and consultant, and runs her own design company. Recent clients include Ambassadors Hotel Bloomsbury, Defra and . Thea is also Visual Editor at the Future Foundation, a trend forecasting company.

Paul Williams RDI Professional Qualifications: BA H DipAD; Registered Architect; RIBA Career: Victoria and Albert Museum 1975-80, Yale University 1978; Private Practice 1980-85; Co-Founder, Stanton Williams 1985+. Stanton Williams is a 50+ strong studio whose multi- award-winning work has been exhibited and published in many books/international journals.

8 Alex Wiltshire First love: graphic design for print, with a fetish for typography, layout, and really intricate print pieces. Work values include honesty, groundedness and integrity, ambition and drive, a sense of play in creativity, and strong craft and draftsmanship.

Chris Wise RDI Summer School Director I just start It works out in the end Usually good, sometimes better, occasionally amazing That sounds like boasting Which it isn’t (I’m quite shy and like cricket) Engineer architect, an anagram of which is Earth centric genie

Kevin Yeates A survey of friends, family and colleagues said: bloody-minded, questioning, mischievous, cheeky, uncompromising, stubborn, funny, passionate, bonkers, Irish, driven, professional, focused, intense, perfectionist, adventurous, witty, caring, creative, generous, compassionate, driven, open-minded, honest, easy- going, headstrong, fabulous, tenacious.

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