The designerati podcast

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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Jordan Cluroe and Russell Whitehead believe that our homes ought to reflect ourselves and are on a mission to making living lovely, as is the name of their bestselling interiors book. 

Both former actors turned interior designers their trademark style is to inject theatrical flourish into their clients’ homes through their signature use of colour.

I’m curious what it takes to be partners at home and to co-own 2LG studio in southeast London.  

Who is this colourful duo that appear to have developed the confidence to be themselves and to love who they are and share these sentiments with their equally brave and bold clients?

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Tash South is a South African born graphic designer who four years ago created an Instagram account to document her house renovation. 

Fast forward to current day and along with a slurry of DMs about her design process these enquiries then converted into design jobs from which she founded her newest thriving business, South Place Studio.  

How did Tash transition from graphic designer to a successful property renovation consultant and then onto curate her own collection of African inspired prints via the prestigious Rockett St George?

Welcome Tash

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