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This is an RDInsights Archive recording from 2021 with the writer and illustrator Marion Deuchars RDI, who believes that...
19/01/2026

This is an RDInsights Archive recording from 2021 with the writer and illustrator Marion Deuchars RDI, who believes that everyone would benefit from living a creative life. In the interview, Marion talks about her childhood, her work, and what it was like to live and work under lockdown. Her creative activity books have sold worldwide, inspiring people to discover their own inner creative potential.
Mike Dempsey RDI recently caught up with Marion again to see what she’s been up to since that original 2021 interview, and you can hear their new conversation immediately after the archive recording.




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Frith Kerr is an award winning graphic designer and founder of Studio Frith, celebrated for its original work and except...
06/12/2025

Frith Kerr is an award winning graphic designer and founder of Studio Frith, celebrated for its original work and exceptional clients. ‘the go-to graphic designer for creative clients’ The New York Times.
Her studio has produced acclaimed work for some of the world’s leading cultural institutions, brands and artists. These include Frieze Art Fairs, Guggenheim New York, Ilse Crawford, Roksanda, Juergen Teller, Philippe Parreno, Michael Clark and Company, Michele Lamy, Noma, Hotel Il Pellicano and Skye Gyngell, Spring. 
 
Frith has built a practice renowned for its visionary creativity and research led approach. The work can take many forms: from brand identity design to perfume bottles, campaigns to books, and packaging to films. Frith believes in the power of design as a creative strategic tool to develop and evolve businesses.
 
Frith studied at Camberwell College of Arts and at the Royal College of Art. She co-founded and ran the design agency Kerr|Noble for 11 years before setting up Studio Frith in 2009. She is a trustee of the Arts Foundation, a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale.
 
 


 
Photo credit Studio Firth
 
         

Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg is a multidisciplinary artist examining our fraught relationships with nature and technology. T...
05/12/2025

Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg is a multidisciplinary artist examining our fraught relationships with nature and technology. Through subjects as diverse as artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, conservation, and evolution, she explores the human impulse to “better” the world. She experiments with simulation, representation, and the nonhuman perspective to question our ongoing societal fixation on innovation over preservation.
 
In 2023, she won the S+T+ARTS Grand Prize – Artistic Exploration for her experimental interspecies living artwork, Pollinator Pathmaker. She received her PhD from the Royal College of Art and is resident at Somerset House Studios, London. In 2024, Ginsberg was commissioned by Manifesta, the European Nomadic Biennial, to create her first stained glass window installation, Every Thing Eats Light. That same year she opened her first Swedish solo exhibition at Bildmuseet, Umeå, expanding her immersive light and sound installation Machine Auguries (2019-ongoing) with a new Umeå site-specific edition in 2025. Her recent commissions include a video installation for the British Library’s ‘Unearthed’ exhibition and an 8-metre tapestry for the Design Museum’s touring exhibition, ‘More Than Human’, which opened this July.
 


 
Photo credit Nathalie Thery
 
         

Teucer Wilson was always interested in the arts from an early age, and a career in the creative realm was inevitable - t...
04/12/2025

Teucer Wilson was always interested in the arts from an early age, and a career in the creative realm was inevitable - the problem was what to specialise in. After enjoying art at school, a foundation diploma at Bucks College was both enjoyable and confusing. Teucer enjoyed textiles, printmaking, graphic design, illustration and sculpture equally. After a period of ‘being an artist’ he landed in Weymouth to study Stone Masonry, Architectural Carving and Lettering. This could be the thing to focus on. 

Designing things to carve into stone combined the graphic and sculptural elements well and he has been doing this since 1993. After college he worked with Richard Kindersley the renowned lettering artist for 5 years, training his eye and eventually teaching new apprentices that entered the studio. This time was such a nourishing and valuable experience. Teucer moved to Norfolk in 2000 to find his own way and has worked with his own assistants and apprentices in his busy workshop ever since, working mostly with stone but also enjoying the possibilities of other materials and processes such as sandblasted glass, laser-cut steel and cast iron.




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We are honoured to announce the new Honorary Royal Designers for Industry!The visionary designers being awarded Honorary...
27/11/2025

We are honoured to announce the new Honorary Royal Designers for Industry!

The visionary designers being awarded Honorary RDI titles for their work in their respective design practices are:
• April Greiman – Transmedia –
• Philippe Block – Structures –



         

We are honoured to announce the new Royal Designers for Industry!The visionary designers being awarded RDI titles for th...
27/11/2025

We are honoured to announce the new Royal Designers for Industry!

The visionary designers being awarded RDI titles for their work in their respective design practices are:
• Mona Chalabi – Data Visualisation –
• Yinka Ilori – Multidisciplinary –
• Teucer Wilson – Stone –
• Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg – Speculative –
• Frith Kerr – Graphic –



         

Congratulations to the new Royal Designers for Industry in 2025!We are honoured to celebrate their outstanding contribut...
27/11/2025

Congratulations to the new Royal Designers for Industry in 2025!
We are honoured to celebrate their outstanding contributions to design and society.



         

Tom Stuart-Smith is a British landscape architect renowned for his innovative designs that harmoniously blend naturalism...
16/12/2024

Tom Stuart-Smith is a British landscape architect renowned for his innovative designs that harmoniously blend naturalism with modernity. After studying Zoology at the University of Cambridge, he pursued a postgraduate degree in Landscape Design at Manchester University. In 1998, he established his own practice, Tom Stuart-Smith Studio, which has since gained an international reputation for creating gardens that combine naturalistic planting with modern design elements. His notable projects include the masterplan for RHS Garden Bridgewater in Greater Manchester and the garden surrounding The Hepworth Wakefield in West Yorkshire. He has designed ten award-winning gardens for the Chelsea Flower Show, eight of which received gold medals, with three being awarded ‘Best in Show’. In recognition of his contributions to landscape architecture, he was awarded an OBE in 2023.
 



Tom Stuart-Smith is a British landscape architect renowned for his innovative designs that harmoniously blend naturalism...
16/12/2024

Tom Stuart-Smith is a British landscape architect renowned for his innovative designs that harmoniously blend naturalism with modernity. After studying Zoology at the University of Cambridge, he pursued a postgraduate degree in Landscape Design at Manchester University. In 1998, he established his own practice, Tom Stuart-Smith Studio, which has since gained an international reputation for creating gardens that combine naturalistic planting with modern design elements. His notable projects include the masterplan for RHS Garden Bridgewater in Greater Manchester and the garden surrounding The Hepworth Wakefield in West Yorkshire. He has designed ten award-winning gardens for the Chelsea Flower Show, eight of which received gold medals, with three being awarded ‘Best in Show’. In recognition of his contributions to landscape architecture, he was awarded an OBE in 2023.
 



Shona Heath is a London-based production designer and art director celebrated for her surreal and whimsical set designs....
13/12/2024

Shona Heath is a London-based production designer and art director celebrated for her surreal and whimsical set designs. Her work appears in leading fashion publications like British Vogue and W magazine. Heath’s film credits include Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things, earning her an Academy Award and BAFTA for Best Production Design. She also contributes to brand campaigns, packaging, and window displays, blending fantastical and contemporary aesthetics to redefine visual storytelling.
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