The Crit

Experience designer, artist and filmmaker Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian makes a flying visit to The Crit, discussing bouncing sound waves off the moon to create music mixed with the sounds of the Big Bang, to redistributing wealth to community groups using funding ring-fenced for Brexit celebrations.

Nelly's picks for her crit were:

Best design: Piccadilly Un:Plugged

Worst design: University of the Underground (the early years)

Most successful design: Tour de Moon

Most impactful feedback: Fiona Raby telling her that she needed to overcome her anxiety about public speaking because it was going to become a big part of her work 

Dream design: A rocket, a sex toy, or toys for McDonald’s Happy Meals

The Crit

Graphics: Leonhard Rothmoser

Music: Yuri Suzuki and Team Suzuki

This episode of The Crit was recorded at KEF Music Gallery, London

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Jay Osgerby – cofounder of Barber Osgerby, Universal Design Studio and Map Project Office – visits the studio to reflect on the challenges of forging an emotional connection with users and audiences through design, as well as speculating on who might play him in a film of his life.

Jay's picks for his crit were:

Best design: Double Space

Worst design: Everything he designed while studying architecture at the Royal College of Art

Most successful design: Olympic Torch

Most impactful feedback: People writing to him to express how much they loved the Tip Ton chair

Dream design: A permanent outdoor sculpture or installation

The Crit

Graphics: Leonhard Rothmoser

Music: Yuri Suzuki and Team Suzuki

This episode of The Crit was recorded at KEF Music Gallery, London

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Designer Andu Masebo joins The Crit to discuss designing objects that tell stories about their own creation, his love of harsh feedback and his dream of redesigning the creative education system.

Andu's picks for his crit were:

Best design: Making Room

Worst design: Union Chair

Most successful design: Candleholder No.12

Most impactful feedback: His wife saying a design was disgusting

Dream design: Creative education system

The Crit

Graphics: Leonhard Rothmoser

Music: Yuri Suzuki and Team Suzuki

This episode of The Crit was recorded at KEF Music Gallery, London

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Luke Pearson from Pearson&Lloyd joins The Crit to discuss, amongst other things, using design to improve communal spaces which many people might regard as an unfortunate necessity, from airplane interiors to A&E wards.

Luke's picks for his crit were:

Best design: Virgin Atlantic upper class seat or Flow X stairlift 

Worst design: Homer office workstation for Knoll

Most successful design: A Better A&E

Most impactful feedback: A client saying that Pearson Lloyd’s design had catapulted their business forward

Dream design: Trams

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Graphics: Leonhard Rothmoser

Music: Yuri Suzuki and Team Suzuki

This episode of The Crit was recorded at Uncommon Holborn

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Designer and educator Ilse Crawford stops by the studio to talk about her work creating products and spaces centred around communication, material provenance and wellbeing: a concept focused on creating healthy systems and understanding the psychology and physiology of space. The founder of the Studioilse collective of architects, designers journalists and filmmakers, Ilse speaks about the importance of the client-designer relationship, and the potential of the design field to integrate measurable values such as increased quality and revenue, alongside unmeasurable values including communicating care, trust, and generosity.

Ilse's picks for her crit were:

Best design: Sinnerlig lamp for Ikea or Ett Hem

Worst design: The Anna Freud Centre

Most successful design: Cathay Pacific business lounge

Most impactful feedback: A user of the Refettorio Felix community kitchen saying that the space's beauty showed that someone cares

Dream design: Care homes

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Graphics: Leonhard Rothmoser

Music: Yuri Suzuki and Team Suzuki

This episode of The Crit was recorded at Uncommon Holborn

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Sound designer, musician and artist Yuri Suzuki, the creator of The Crit's jingle, joins us in the studio for a discussion about using sound as a means to shape human interactions and public spaces.

Yuri's picks for his crit were:

Best design: Sonic Bloom

Worst design: Devices for a performance in Japan with visually impaired dancers

Most successful design: OTOTO

Most impactful feedback: Jesper Kouthoofd from Teenage engineering admiring his playful approach to design

Dream design: Sounds for electric vehicles

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Graphics: Leonhard Rothmoser

Music: Yuri Suzuki and Team Suzuki

This episode of The Crit was recorded at Uncommon Holborn

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Australian furniture designer Trent Jansen visits The Crit to discuss his deep collaborations with indigenous Australian artists and designers, working together to make collectible design pieces and public furniture which tell stories about Australian history and culture.

Trent's picks for his crit were:

Best design: Kurunpa Kunpu

Worst design: Shelving system

Most successful design: Balit-dhan Balit-nganjin

Most impactful feedback: Learning about the landscape and its stories from indigenous Australian collaborators

Dream design: Public furniture and spaces

The Crit

Graphics: Leonhard Rothmoser

Music: Yuri Suzuki and Team Suzuki

This episode of The Crit was recorded at Uncommon Holborn

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Designer, curator, writer and educator Michael Marriott joins The Crit to discuss making stickers that are sweetly political, his dream of restyling electric cars, and what he would most like to redesign about Christmastime.

Michael’s picks for his crit were:

Best design: Olá

Worst design: Sardine Tin Drawers 

Most successful design: Fusilli book stand 

Most impactful feedback: Craft is just making something with care 

Dream design: Electric Car

The Crit

Graphics: Leonhard Rothmoser

Music: Yuri Suzuki and Team Suzuki

This episode of The Crit was recorded at Uncommon Holborn

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Ceramic artist, researcher and writer Bisila Noha joins The Crit to discuss her interest in challenging Western ideas about art and craft, honouring the contributions of women of colour to these disciplines, and the importance of finding different ways to design and make with clay.

Bisila's picks for her crit were:

Best design: Baney Clay

Worst design: Two-Legged Vessel

Most successful design: Her writing practice

Most impactful feedback: Receiving trust, respect and encouragement from curator Jareh Das

Dream design: Toilets

The Crit

Graphics: Leonhard Rothmoser

Music: Yuri Suzuki and Team Suzuki

This episode of The Crit was recorded at Uncommon Holborn

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.