Feature for ES magazine: ‘The Insiders’

Commissioned by  designer and guest editor Fran Hickman for her special design issue of ES magazine (published by London’s Evening Standard newspaper), I interviewed 8 of London’s visionary creatives about their experiences of the Covid-19 lockdown and asked them what they’d like to see change when restrictions are lifted. Each contributor was captured in their home by talented photographer Mark Cocksedge.

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Opinion piece for ICON: Will design weeks survive the pandemic?

The Covid-19 pandemic has wrought havoc on our understanding of normality and disruption has been experienced across the world. Physical events have suffered greatly with most of them cancelled or postponed indefinitely. The design weeks of the world were already in need of disruption so what can they learn from this period and how might they change in the future? ICON magazine asked me to pen my thoughts, alongside designer and author Seetal Solanki.

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Interview for twentytwentyone: Ronan Bouroullec

London design store, twentytwentyone, invited me to interview Ronan Bouroullec about the concepts and processes involved in designing the Rope chair for Artek and the Découpage ceramics for Vitra.

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