On Design with Justyna Green

Kirsty Whyte is the Creative & Product Director at Soho House and the founder of Freedom To Exist. In our conversation, Kirsty reflects on her career, spanning her eponymous design studio and her work for Habitat and Heal's. She also reveals some of the latest developments at Soho Home and Cowshed - from new collections to a rebrand of the much-loved beauty business. We also discover her side-hust...

I catch up with the curator Hugo MacDonald as the Harewood Biennial opens at the Harewood House with an exhibition "Useful/Beautiful: Why Craft Matters". In our conversation, we chat about craft's identity crisis, its relationship with design, William Morris and the cognitive power between the hand and the mind as a healing process.   Presented by Justyna Green Music by James Green

My conversation with Marcus Fairs, founder and editor-in-chief of Dezeen, was so much more than I expected. I knew we'd discuss the early days of Dezeen and hoped for interesting information about the ins and outs of running a successful online business. But we also delved into Marcus's personal story, his thoughts on turning failure into success and breaking news stories with Kanye West. Presente...

"I wasn't supposed to be a designer" – that's how my conversation with Lee starts at his Shoreditch studio, which is as immaculate as the signature haircut he's sporting. In this podcast episode, we discuss Lee's career as a professional child actor, his fashion design competition win and Vivienne Westwood encounter, Crystal Lightbulb dreams, designers' responsibility to create products that will...

We kick off season 2 of the podcast with a chat with two journalists; Sujata Burman, who's the online design editor at Wallpaper* and Ali Morris - a freelance writer whose articles you can spot on the pages of Wallpaper*, Dezeen and many other publications. Our conversations centres around design in 2019, key trends, long-term movements and the areas of our lives affected and improved by design ev...

The Justyna Green podcast live at designjunction, during the London Design Festival, September 2018. Guest speakers: designer Terri Pecora, designer Tej Chauhan, journalist and writer Kasia Maciejowska, designer Kusheda Mensah. Kasia Maciejowska hosts a panel featuring three renowned designers to discuss how emotional designs shape the human experience.   Presented by Justyna Green Music by James...

This episode is a live recording of the Justyna Green podcast, which took place during the designjunction event, for which Justyna curated the talks programme. "Ethical Design" is the title of the talk moderated by Anna Winston, architecture writer, in which Emily Mathieson, founder of Aerende, Ben Parker of Made Thought, Emma Fromberg of Ellen MacArthur Foundation discuss design in the light of c...

This episode is a live recording of the Justyna Green podcast, which took place during the designjunction event, for which Justyna curated the talks programme. "Future of Architecture" is the title of the talk moderated by Ellie Stathaki, the architecture editor of Wallpaper*, in which Jonathan Ashmore, founder of ANARCHITECT, Sarah Featherstone, director at Featherstone Young, Sarah Castle, co-fo...

This episode is a live recording of the Justyna Green podcast, which took place during the designjunction event, for which Justyna curated the talks programme. "Craft 2.0" is the title of the talk moderated by Ben Spriggs, the editor of Elle Decoration, in which Sebastian Cox, Caroline Milns, Ini Archibong, and Magnus Wastberg share their thoughts on the importance of craft in today's digital-firs...

Live recording of the ON DESIGN podcast, which took place during the designjunction event, for which Justyna curated the talks programme. In his keynote Benjamin offers an insight into the work of his design studio LAYER, which spans emotive tech, meaningful mobility, holistic brands and revolutionary fashion, including his two most recent launches: KITE Eyewear and Nolii.   Presented by Justyna G...

In this episode of the Justyna Green podcast, I speak to Henrietta Thompson, the co-founder of Harth and editor-at-large of Wallpaper* magazine. We talk all things generation rent, how borrowing is the new owning, solutions to being surrounded by too much stuff in the Western world and the good and the bad of the recently prominent anti-plastic campaign.   Presented by Justyna Green Music by James...

In this episode of the Justyna Green podcast, I speak to Thomas Meany, the co-founder of Open Cell - 70 experimental studios in shipping containers including the first open access bio-lab & biomaterial-lab in London. We talk all things biodesign - a discipline at the nexus of design and science, which is now gaining a wider reach, thanks to its futureproofing qualities and ways of shaping our worl...

In this episode of Justyna Green podcast, I speak to Sam Bompas, the co-founder of Bompas & Parr, who design spectacular, multisensory experiences, more often than not work with food and you might have heard first of their architectural jelly. In our chat, Sam tells me more about their business, how it started, what they're up to now, how to create memorable experiences in the age of Instagram, wh...

In this episode of the Justyna Green podcast, I speak to the husband and wife duo Sebastian and Brogan Cox, who are furniture makers and so much more. We chat about their workshop, studio, mill, and the newly established lab, their mission to champion British woodlands and huge concerns around Britain's biodiversity. We also discuss their venture into growing furniture and accessories from myceliu...

In this episode of the Justyna Green podcast, I speak to the Royal Designer for Industry Morag Myerscough. We chat about everything from  Morag 's bohemian London upbringing, creating 'belonging' through colour and pattern, her recent British Council trip to the Saudi Design Week and her work with the UK schools and hospitals, including her Sterling Prize-winning collaboration with Allford Hall Mo...

In this episode of the Justyna Green podcast, I speak to Ferry van Tongeren and Jaap Sinke, co-founders of Fine Taxidermy. While initially I declined this interview opportunity, concerned about animal suffering, I was quickly convinced that not only what Ferry and Jaap do is ethical but it also celebrates the beauty and nature of the animals they're working with - that's thanks to their 17th-centu...

In the sixth episode of the Justyna Green podcast, I speak to Ben Rigby, co-founder of Haberdashery. I've been following their work for a long time now, and am a huge fan. In our conversation, we chat about the language of light, the ways in which it affects us and evokes emotions. We also dive into the human circadian rhythms and the negative effects of blue light. Finally, we explore Haberdasher...

In the fifth episode of the ON DESIGN podcast, I speak to Jonathan and Militza Ashmore, founders of ANARCHITECT. Whilst still a young practice, ANARCHITECT have already won many accolades for their work in architecture, interiors architecture and design in the Middle East and wider GCC region. Jonathan and Militza shed light on the design and architecture of the Middle East, give us insights into...

In the fourth episode of the Justyna Green podcast, I speak to Chrissa Amuah, founder of Africa by Design and AMWA Designs. Chrissa is an incredible character, with a wonderful story of pursuing your instincts and passions and making things happen. Now through Africa by Design Chrissa champions creatives leading sub-Saharan Africa's emerging design scene - you can spot Africa by Design everywhere...

In the third episode of the Justyna Green podcast, I speak to Paul Priestman, chairman of PriestmanGoode. PriestmanGoode is the design agency behind the design of the new Tube for London and the initial concept for Hyperloop so it's no surprise, that in this episode we talk about Paul's great passion - transport design. We chat about everything from high-speed trains and Dragonfly drones to walkab...

In this Justyna Green podcast episode, I speak to Alice Black, co-director of the Design Museum. We talk about the future of design as presented in the Beazley Designs of the Year exhibition. Now in its eleventh year, the exhibition is the Design Museum's annual celebration of the most original and exciting products, concepts and designers in the world today. Together with Alice, we discover the l...

In the first Justyna Green podcast episode I speak to Sarah Weir, the CEO of the Design Council about the main challenges she's been facing since joining the council 18 months ago. We discuss the latest Design Economy Report and the design industry's contribution to the British economy. We also touch on diversity and inclusivity within the design industry itself, and Sarah discusses the key projec...