Designing growth for a 115-year legacy with Darren Comber

What does it take to lead one of the UK’s oldest and most respected architectural practices into the future?  As CEO of Scott Brownrigg, Darren Comber has steered the 115-year-old practice through change, challenge and reinvention. From its early roots in Guildford to a network of studios spanning…

Designing a life rebuilt with Jeremy Bull

What if the true measure of success isn’t scale, but connection?  From a childhood spent in expat compounds of Saudi Arabia to founding one of Australia’s most admired design studios, Jeremy Bull, founder and principal of Alexander &CO., has designed far more than homes, he’s designed a life roote…

Designing a life with intention with Gabriel Hendifar

What does it mean to create objects that tell stories, that shape how we feel, live, and connect? For Gabriel Hendifar, Artistic Director and Co-Founder of APPARATUS, design is about more than beautiful lighting and furniture, it’s about creating the container for human experience.  Born in Los A…

Designing life at scale with Chris Godfrey

How do you go from almost joining the Marines, to leading the world’s largest hospitality design firm?  Born in Yorkshire and now based in Singapore, Chris Godfrey’s story is one of creative grit, adaptability and quiet determination. From humble beginnings as a teenage print boy in an architectur…

Designing Peter Saville CBE

What does it mean to shape culture through design?   For Peter Saville CBE, one of the most influential designers of our time, it has always been about perception. From his early work at Factory Records, crafting the visual identities of Joy Division and New Order, to collaborations with fashion h…

Designing Resilience with Rido Pin

How do you build a design career that spans continents, cultures and scale, and then redesign your life after a wake-up call?  Rido Pin is a Director at Plus Studio, a solutions company for the built environment, with 11 studios across Australia and New Zealand and projects worldwide. Originally f…

Designing creative independence with Ajaz Ahmed

What happens when you combine a love of design with a mind for business? For Ajaz Ahmed, it meant building one of the world’s most successful creative companies from scratch before starting all over again.  Ajaz is the visionary founder of AKQA, the global digital agency that he grew to 5,000 staf…

Designing human connection through art with Paul Cocksedge

Growing up in North London in the 80s, no one was talking about art or design. Life was about conversations with neighbours on the street, the good and the not so good. Four decades later, Paul Cocksedge’s work is grounded in these formative years. Known for his unorthodox approach to materials in …

Designing modern craftsmanship with Elad Yifrach

When Elad Yifrach was growing up his art teacher mother would entertain he and his sisters by setting up art projects on their dining room table. It wasn’t long before his bedroom was home to stacks of magazines covered in sticky notes, and he was studying a unique architecture and interior design …

Designing sustainable architecture with Keith Hempel

Keith Hempel always knew he was going to be an architect. Growing up in Southern California with a creative mother and a technical father, he seemed destined for the vocation. A transformative, “eye opening” and “earth shattering” year studying the craft in Florence set him on his way.     Today, …