Oral health
Panel
Chair: Robin Levien
Robin
Levien is a product designer specialising in ceramics for both the tableware
and bathroom industries. Over the past 30 years, he has designed some
many best selling ranges for clients all over the world. His acronym for
good design is F.A.B. Functional, Affordable and Beautiful.
After gaining an honours degree in Ceramics at the Central School of Art and Design he went on to study Ceramics at the Royal College of Art, graduating with a Master of Arts in 1976. In 1999 he set up Studio Levien in partnership with his wife Tricia Stainton which now has a team of seven working from a converted printing works in London’s new cultural quarter, Southwark.
Catherine Greig
Catherine
Greig is an architect and designer who works with young people and community
groups to investigate what makes public spaces appealing to spend time
in. Her work centres on involving communities in participatory design
to ensure that the end product is interwoven in community needs and requirements.
Catherine has recently become an ambassador for the Make Your Mark campaign
and supports any initiative to get young people to think creatively. Catherine
trained in Bath, Copenhagen and London and founded her own design practice,
make:good, in 2005. Catherine also carries out research and writing
work and currently writes a monthly column in New Start magazine about
play and the public realm.
Chris Parker
Chris
studied Furniture and Product Design at Ravensbourne and then successfully
completed his MA in Industrial Design at the Royal College of Art. After
graduating in 1994 he took on a broad role at PDD covering product design,
graphic design and photography. He joined Priestman Goode in 1996 where
he has worked on a wide variety of projects from award winning kitchenware
and consumer electronics through to complete aircraft interiors for some
of the world's best airlines. Chris became Priestman Goode's Creative
Director in 2006.
Simon Ritchie
Simon
Ritchie is Packaging Design & Ideation Manager for the Aquafresh Futures
Group, Consumer Healthcare at GlaxoSmithKline. Trained in Industrial Design,
he graduated from Teesside University in 2001 with a first class honours
degree. During his final year he received two RSA awards for his ‘Medication
on the move’ submission. One of these awards included a placement
at GSK were he has spent four and a half of the last six years working
in the Device Technology Group supporting a number of pharmaceutical projects
before focusing on packaging and device concepts for the Consumer side
of the business. Simon has also spent one and a half years developing
his skills in a product design consultancy environment at London Associates
working on a variety of challenging projects.