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Designer Nipa Doshi of Doshi Levien is our latest guest, visiting the studio to talk about the importance of sketching, the challenges of moving between continents, the need for plural approaches and aesthetic in design, and the case for greater sensitivity in the design of healthcare.
Nipa's picks for her crit were:
Best design: Charpoy for Moroso
Worst design: None (the importance of selectivity)
Most successful design: Colour system for Kettal and Quilton sofas for Hay
Most impactful feedback: “ There's always a way to make a good idea.” —Jonathan Levien
Dream design: A hospital and mammogram machine
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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 Nina Tolstrup, one half of Studiomama, joins The Crit to talk small-scale living, new cutlery typologies, furniture made from leftover pallets, and the importance of local manufacturing and distribution.
Nina's picks for her crit were:
Best design: Pallet Project
Worst design: Bio-Plastic Cutlery Tool
Most successful design: 13m2 House
Most impactful feedback: “Just try it”
Dream design: A furniture system for small space living
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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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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
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Graphics: Leonhard Rothmoser
Music: Yuri Suzuki and Team Suzuki
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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
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Graphics: Leonhard Rothmoser
Music: Yuri Suzuki and Team Suzuki
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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
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Graphics: Leonhard Rothmoser
Music: Yuri Suzuki and Team Suzuki
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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
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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
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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
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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, 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
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Graphics: Leonhard Rothmoser
Music: Yuri Suzuki and Team Suzuki
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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
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Graphics: Leonhard Rothmoser
Music: Yuri Suzuki and Team Suzuki
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Stefan Diez, founder of Diez Office, joins The Crit to discuss the importance of elegance and joyfulness in sustainable design, and his work convincing major manufacturers to deviate from standard commercial manufacturing methods to cater for circular products.
Stefan’s picks for his crit were:
Best design: Ayno lamp or Boa table
Worst design: Couch or an unnamed wardrobe project
Most successful design: Plusminus or New Order
Most impactful feedback: Designing shouldn’t always be easy
Dream design: Royalties payment system
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Graphics: Leonhard Rothmoser
Music: Yuri Suzuki and Team Suzuki
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Seetal Solanki from Ma-tt-er is the latest designer to join The Crit, discussing her work mapping materials in Bali and fostering community Nigeria, to using quizzes and memes as an educational exercise.
Seetal's picks for her crit were:
Best design: Desa Potato Head or 16/16 residency
Worst design: An unnamed restaurant window display
Most successful design: Materials Personality Quiz
Most impactful feedback: You need to own it
Dream design: The education system
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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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What do designers think about their own work? Which project are they most proud of; what early design do they regret; and what would they most like to design in the future? The Crit, a new podcast from Disegno, has the answers!
This week, Martino Gamper joins The Crit as his retrospective Before, After and Beyond opens in London, sharing memories from his success with a self-initiated stool, to the impassioned critique he received from Enzo Mari.
Martino's picks for his crit were:
Best design: Arnold Circus Stool
Worst design: An unnamed wooden chair for an Italian furniture brand
Most successful design: Design is a State of Mind
Most impactful feedback: Enzo Mari’s criticism that some of his work was neither craft nor industry
Dream design: An anonymous, ubiquitous object or detail
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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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What do designers think about their own work? Which project are they most proud of; what early design do they regret; and what would they most like to design in the future? The Crit, a new podcast from Disegno, has the answers!
This week, Bethan Laura Wood joins The Crit to talk everything from toothpaste-inspired handles and explorations into the aesthetic potential of laminate, to feminist salons and the importance of learning how to edit.
Bethan's picks for her crit were:
Best design: Kaleidoscope-o-rama
Worst design: Entwined light
Most successful design: Super Fake or Toothpaste
Most impactful feedback: If you carry everything, it ends up being nothing
Dream design: A dog bed for Wilma
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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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What do designers think about their own work? Which project are they most proud of; what early design do they regret; and what would they most like to design in the future? The Crit, a new podcast from Disegno, has the answers!
This week, Yinka Ilori comes on The Crit to discuss being tempted to buy his chairs back, the career advice Tracey Emin gave him in M&S, and the importance of joy and self belief.
Yinka's picks for his crit were:
Best design: Colour Palace
Worst design: Okra chair
Most successful design: If Chairs Could Talk
Most impactful feedback: Don’t rush, take your time and build your body of work
Dream design: Sculpture park
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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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