Tag: Designer Q&A
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From Design Shanghai to Nike, Chen Min is a global force in design
In the latest of our Designer Q&A series, Cultural Union speaks to Chen Min, a globally renowned designer with clients from Nike to de Sede, and the founder of Neooold—one of the key studio partners of Design Shanghai. One of the strengths of leading design fairs such as Design Shanghai is their ability to project talent around the…
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Meet Marco Campardo, award-winning designer of tomorrow’s furniture
In the latest of our Designer Q&A series, Effect speaks to Marco Campardo, an emerging design talent from Italy, now working in London and the second recipient of the Design Museum’s prestigious Ralph Saltzman Prize Ask Marco Campardo what his go-to material is and he’ll tell you he doesn’t have one – and it’s this sense of…
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Benjamin Hubert’s LAYER Design Studio is creating the icons of tomorrow
In the latest of our Designer Q&A series, Effect speaks to LAYER, a London-based strategic design agency with clients from Bang & Olufsen to Deutsche Telekom You know something is afoot when you hear about a studio from several different sources in the same week. First, their Canopy Chair was a hit at Material Matters at the…
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How Mimi Shodeinde creates ‘frozen motion’ in her beautiful designs
Cultural Union speaks to British-Nigerian design talent Mimi Shodeinde about her elegant, sculptural furniture, and why the music industry’s loss has been the design industry’s gain We first met Mimi Shodeinde at the Design Museum last year, where she was being feted as one of their Designers for Tomorrow; and the sinuous office desk she…