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Nic Banks is the Founding Director of Atelier Pacific. Initially trained as an Engineer, he has over 30 years of experience working on a wide range of design projects. Prior to setting up Atelier Pacific, Nic worked in Milan with the renowned Italian architect Michele DeLucchi then from 1992 with Lord Norman Foster’s architectural and design practice in Hong Kong, where he led one of the design teams responsible for the passenger terminal building at Hong Kong's new airport. During his career, Nic has worked on a number of prestigious projects and has liaised with Clients as diverse as Cheung Kong, Deutsche Bank, Forever 21, the Hong Kong Airport Authority, Louis Vuitton, the Taiwan High-speed Rail Authority and Victoria’s Secret. Under the name of his own practice, Atelier Pacific, Nic has undertaken a number of fit–out and new–build projects for both commercial and private clients, as well as contributed to many important design, architectural, and master-planning public-realm projects in Asia. Nic is a full member of various professional organisations in London and Hong Kong; has taught and presented papers at numerous educational establishments and conferences; and had his work widely published and exhibited.

Anthony currently works as a Design Leader, Vice President for the LEGO Group. He is currently focused on experience design and leads the LEGO Group’s building experience teams. Anthony has been working in the design industry since leaving Central St Martins in 1989 and worked as a product designer for a decade before moving into design management and leadership. He has managed and led design in highly commercial environments with Nortel, Nokia, Microsoft & currently the LEGO Group, and across the full spectrum of skills and expertise from product, graphics and digital through to end to end consumer experiences. Anthony is extremely passionate about design leadership and the diverse skills needed to succeed and deliver the best consumer experiences possible.

Based in Staffordshire, UK, Vicki Lovegrove is a graphic designer and creative confidence coach. She has worked in the creative industries for over 30 years, 18 of which have been in her home-based design consultancy. Vicki is a Member of the Chartered Society of Designers Her design clients range from small businesses to global brands, and she has guest lectured in universities as far afield as Dehli. Vicki successfully works her design and coaching business around her family, husband and two children, and Rocky, the studio dog. My three main online links are: Design: https://www.seventy-three.co.uk Coaching: https://www.vickilovegrove.co.uk/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vickilovegrove/

Designer Talks podcast asking designers, how they do it, why they do it and what makes them tick and what design means to them, hosted and produced by Lefteris Heretakis aCSDf. David is non-exec chairman of branding consultancy Holmes & Marchant with offices in London, Singapore, Shanghai and New York. He is also an independent consultant to various clients, including Sainsbury’s and Swiss Re, prior to which he was managing director of the Conran Design Group and chairman of Designersblock.   He is chair of trustees of the River and Rowing Museum and a former trustee and trading board chairman of the London Transport Museum.  In the education arena he has recently completed six years as a governor of Ravensbourne University London, prior to which he was chairman of the Skills Council for the creative and cultural industries - CCSkills.  He is a Fellow of the Chartered Society of Designers, the RSA and an Honorary Fellow of Cardiff Metropolitan University. https://www.msqpartners.com https://www.holmesandmarchant.com  

Designer Talks podcast asking designers, how they do it, why they do it and what makes them tick and what design means to them, hosted and produced by Lefteris Heretakis aCSDf. Raymond Turner FCSD has been described as ‘a thought leader’ (Sean McNulty, Chairman, Dolmen-design and innovation, Ireland); ‘a design legend’ (Clive Grinyer, Director of Customer Experience, Barclays Bank, UK); ‘an inspiration and mentor to many’ (James Berry, Director, Woods Bagot Architecture, UK); ‘one of the few who have dominated the profession of Design Management’ (the late Peter Gorb, Life Fellow of the DMI and Professor of London Business School); and having had ‘an illustrious career in design, design management and design leadership’ (Robert Blaich, former Design Director, Philips, USA). He is an internationally recognised authority on the strategic value of design leadership and management to business, government and society. Practical commercial experience of working in this area has been the focus of his career as a designer, design manager, consultant and corporate design director. His practical experience, and innate interpersonal and communication skills, enabled him to work successfully with large corporations and small to medium size businesses across a wide range of industries. These include transportation, construction and real estate development, local and national government, city planning, public broadcasting, banking and health insurance, industrial and domestic product manufacturing. His ability to work with multidisciplinary teams enables clients to maximise design effectiveness within strict financial and time constraints. He is one of the few design professionals who has held senior posts on both sides of the client-designer divide. Raymond was Design Director of two companies, London Transport, the provider of public transport services in the capital, and BAA, the world’s largest privately owned airport company. He has also been Managing Director of two international multidisciplinary design consultancies, Kilkenny Design in Ireland and Wolff Olins in London, UK. http://www.raymondturner.ie

Martin Darbyshire, CEO at Tangerine Designer Talks podcast asking designers, how they do it, why they do it and what makes them tick and what design means to them, hosted and produced by Lefteris Heretakis aCSDf. Martin has been inspiring companies to take bigger leaps forward through design at Tangerine since co-founding the company in 1989. Under his stewardship Tangerine has grown into an international design consultancy with offices in the UK, South Korea and Brazil; from which Tangerine exports product and service innovation and customer experience design services to the world’s leading brands, service providers and manufacturers. As CEO, Martin leads the strategic and commercial development of the design consultancy. Identifying new business opportunities and growth potential in new sectors, managing high-level client relationships, and driving innovation in the outstanding design work that that the consultancy delivers for its clients. From tangerine’s beginning, the company won exciting overseas clients in Asia and America including Apple, Hitachi and LG, working strategically with the consumer electronics companies on design strategy, product innovation and industrial design. Over the company’s three-decade history, Martin has been instrumental to tangerine broadening its focus to develop wider expertise and move into sectors such as mobility, retail, hospitality, brand environments, service design and user-experience. Tangerine has completed numerous, diverse projects that create exceptional customer experiences for both businesses and their consumers for clients including British Airways, Sky, Cepsa, Gulf Air, Hyundai, Huawei, Innisfree, Nikon, Samsung and Toyota. A design leader on the international stage, Martin combines his work for tangerine with a worldwide programme of keynote speeches and activities promoting the importance of design to improve business success and human well-being. Martin has served two terms as a board member of the World Design Organization (formerly ICSID). He was formerly a visiting professor at Central Saint Martins, University of Arts, London. He is a trustee of the UK Design Council, a member of the UK Government’s Infrastructure Exports: UK (IE:UK), a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Chartered Society of Designers, and a long-standing juror at the Red Dot Awards in Europe and Asia. Socials Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/1148491/?trk=prof-exp-company-name Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tangerinelondon/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tangerinedesignconsultancy Twitter: @tangerinelondon Website: www.tangerine.net

Designer Talks podcast asking designers, how they do it, why they do it and what makes them tick and what design means to them, hosted and produced by Lefteris Heretakis aCSDf. Jamie is a Fellow of the Chartered Society of Designers and awarded member of D&AD. He started his design career at hat-trick design consultants in 2001 after graduating from Somerset College of Arts. In 2007 as a senior freelance designer, Jamie worked with The Partners, 300million, fivefootsix and Wiedemann Lampe before establishing Magpie Studio in a pub in early 2008 with two of his best buddies. Magpie Studio went on to become one of the UK’s most internationally awarded agencies (6th in the Design Week Creative Survey 2013) working with household names from Apple to the British Heart Foundation, Nike to Royal Mail. In 2013 Jamie relocated to Bath where he started Supple Studio (not in a pub this time). Bringing with him a wealth of experience and an enviable list of clients. Over the years he's written various articles for the British design press and has been awarded a plethora of pieces of wood, metal and paper – eighteen D&AD Awards (including three silver nominations, an Impact Award and two Yellow Pencils), thirteen Design Week Awards, two ADC NY Silver Awards and a Cannes Gold Lion for branding. But he never got himself the elusive record deal he was really after.  Twitter: @jamie_ellul @supplestudio Website: https://supplestudio.com