Ep30. Alex Beaugeard: How historical perspectives could help improve the quality of our lives.

10/17/22 • 48 min

Alex Beaugeard, director of design for Lanserring, is our first naval architect on the Designerati podcast with an track record for designing super yachts. He has a masters in industrial design, a prestigious career including designing furniture for the Linley brand, and is an award-winning kitchen designer.
Alex discusses the valuable relationship between emotion and geometry and why historical perspectives about design could help improve the quality of our lives.

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Ep.29 Dids Macdonald OBE: Changing the legal rules to end copying in the design industry

The oxford dictionary describes ‘imitation as the sincerest form of flattery’, while Oscar Wilde disagrees venamently, describing ‘imitation as the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.’
It would seem our very own Queen agrees with both Oscar and my next guest Dids Macdonald who magnificently received an OBE for her services to interior design. Dids cofounded ACID (Anti copying in design) and her work has made history by changing many reforms and legislation in this field.
Let’s find out more from the woman changing the legal rules to end copying in the design industry.

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Ep.31 Chris Duffy: Designing items that get him excited

Chris Duffy has a piece of furniture he designed in the Louvre. Yes, the world famous museum in Paris where the Mona Lisa sits!
His designs started life from his kitchen back in 2002 and these were then sold on market stalls in Spitalfields and Camden.
Fast forward to nowadays and his iconic award-winning designs are cherished by the hip and trendy cool crowd. Taking his design inspiration from a George Bernard shaw quote, ‘we don’t stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.’ Let’s have a chat with the designer who claims his only philosophy is to design items that get him excited.