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Chair: Robin Levien

Robin LevienRobin 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 GreigCatherine 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 ParkerChris 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 RitchieSimon 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.

 

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