AFTER THE NEWS

AFTER THE NEWS is a design company, working on graphic and communication projects, but one eye is on an alternative to brands and branding (tentatively entitled Offbrand) - this thinking feeds into some (but not all) of their other studio work.

www.afterthenews.co.uk

Alex Milton

Alex Milton is Head of Product, Furniture and Interior design at Edinburgh College of Art. Through his designing, teaching and writing he aims to create a culture that thrives on new ideas, new ways of doing things and new areas of exploration. Recent projects include My Design, a series of playful participatory design installations exhibited at the London Design Festival, National Museum of Scotland and the Salone del Mobile, Milan.

www.alexmilton.co.uk

Annabel Wright

Annabel Wright is a Glasgow based Illustrator whose clients include magazines, publishers, bands, design companies and advertising agencies. As an ex-band member of the Pastels, Annabel has designed record sleeves, posters and flyers, for The Pastels, Teenage Fanclub, Sleater-Kinney, Bill Wells Trio, International Airport and Yo La Tengo.

Beca Lipscombe

Beca Lipscombe is a printmaker and designer. Her collection of handmade/printed clothes is produced bi-annually under her own label. The ready-to-wear garments are limited in quantity and are manufactured solely in Scotland using local suppliers and labour.

www.becalipscombe.com

Blue Marmlade

Trent Jennings and Tom Marsh are Blue Marmalade, an Edinburgh based company who create environmentally sound contemporary furniture and products. With an imaginative use of materials and clever construction techniques they create low waste products that are simple to use and eco-friendly.

www.bluemarmalade.co.uk

Derek Welsh

Derek Welsh is a designer/maker who specialises in the manufacture of furniture for contract and domestic clients. Hand finished and produced in a variety of materials including solid wood, wood veneer, laminate and Perspex, his one off pieces, limited edition and small batch collections combine traditional skill with the use of innovative structures.

www.derekwelsh.co.uk

Donna Leishman

Donna Leishman is the Programme Leader in Illustration at Dundee's Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and principal of 6amhoover.com. Her imaginative screen-based worlds explore new narrative artforms using image, animation, audio and interactivity, informing a research–based practice that has produced the widely acclaimed Little Red Ridinghood (2000), The Bloody Chamber (2003) and Deviant: The Posession of Christian Shaw (2004).

www.6amhoover.com

Donna Wilson

Donna Wilson makes knitted creatures that are inspired by the everyday oddities and deformities of life. She likes to think of each of them as a character in her very own wonderland, where scale and perception are turned on their head. Donna creates other products including brightly coloured felt rugs, doily placemats and coasters and patterned cushions and blankets.

www.donnawilson.com

Graphical House

Graphical House solve communication problems across varied media with an eclectic mix of creative skills and thinking. Since starting in 2001 Graphical House have worked with a range of clients on identity, print and motion graphics, the internet, 3 dimensional design, art direction, type design and illustration. Based in Glasgow, their work remains in Scotland but much of it spreads further afield, across the UK, into Europe and the rest of the world.

www.graphicalhouse.com

Graven Images

Founded by Glasgow School of Art graduates Ross Hunter and Janice Kirkpatrick in 1986, Graven Images are a successful multi disciplinary design studio specialising in graphic, interior and exhibition design. They have a diverse range of clients and projects ranging from the Radisson SAS hotels to the BBC.

www.graven.co.uk

Hill Jephson Robb

Hill Jephson Robb brings together art and design to create sculptures and spaces which invite physical interaction and engage visually and emotionally. The concepts in his work come from a curiosity in the human condition and a commitment for the work to be inclusive.

www.hjrstudio.com

ISO

ISO are a design studio specialising in motion graphics and interactivity, with much of their work made for use on screen by the TV, film and advertising sectors. ISO also create interactive environments for cultural and corporate clients.

www.isodesign.co.uk

Johanna Basford

Johanna’s handprinted wallpapers and interior accessories are all designed and printed from a studio in Dundee. Her designs feature tangles of imagined botanicals, butter? ies and birds which are incorporated into wallpapers, fabrics, and soft furnishings. The Response collection of wallpapers respond to their surroundings, with ? owers that blossom in the heat, butter? ies that come alive in sunlight and sinister undertones that emerge after dark.

www.johanna-basford.co.uk

Katy West

Katy west is a freelance ceramic designer, who works on limited edition studio ceramics and prototypes for factory production. Her practice is concerned with the re-contextualisation of existing generic objects, reinterpreting their form, and reinventing their function. As well as working with porcelain and bone china, she is interested in the status of other materials such as earthenware, factory clays and concrete.

www.katywest.co.uk

Kirsteen Stewart

Kirsteen Stewart is an Orkney-based designer who produces graphic textile prints and embroideries for clothing and accessories. Her pieces are unique and attempt to brighten up the everyday.

www.kirsteenstewart.com

Laura Murray

Laura Murray is a jewellery designer who creates unique collections of bags, sporrans and lockets from mixed materials such as silver, feathers and felt tip pens.

www.lauramurray.co.uk

Leigh Ferguson

Leigh Ferguson has worked in the hair industry for 32 years designing hairstyles in collaboration with other individuals or teams of people, whether as private clients looking to present themselves in a particular way, or for creative projects such as film, stage and fashion shoots. Leigh works from her studio in Glasgow and on location in the UK and abroad.

www.leighferguson.com

Lucy MacLeod

Lucy MacLeod is an illustrator who creates unique and striking visuals for magazines, websites, fashion and haircare companies, record labels, advertising agencies, television and radio stations, newspapers, theatre and comedy. Lucy was recently commissioned by British Airways via advertising agency BBH to create artwork for a national newspaper and poster/ billboard campaign to promote their London- New York ’11 Flights a Day’.

www.lucymacleod.com

Mandy McIntosh

Mandy McIntosh worked with KENZO in Paris for two years there before leaving to pursue a career making experimental films. Mandy makes non-fiction animation works, examining the use of aesthetics in the synthetic representation of true events. She also designs knitting patterns in response to cities and these are freely available on-line.

www.hamandenos.com

Marianne Anderson

Marianne Anderson’s jewellery focuses on patterns and theories of ornament. Her designs present a considered exploration of traditional ornamental forms and a refreshingly original interpretation of the decorative. Marianne pierces silhouettes of oxidised silver and systematically arranges and intersects grids of gemstones, pearls and 18ct gold, to deconstruct controlled patterns, creating bold fragmented images on an intricate scale.

www.marianneanderson.co.uk

Mimetics

Established by Richard Brown in 2000, Mimetics specialises in interactive projects and experiences. Recent developments include the Proximity Lighting Controller, an interactive emotive lighting system, able to reflect moods and invoke atmospheres through gesture and expression.

www.mimetics.com

Nigel Peake

Architect and designer Nigel Peake creates drawings and illustrations from his studio in Edinburgh. As well as working as a design tutor at the School of Architecture at Edinburgh University, recent commissions have included designs for Ninjatunes, Habitat, Eastpak, Antiz Skateboards and Automaton Snowboards.

www.secondstreet.co.uk

NORD

Glasgow based architectural practice NORD (Northern Office for Research and Design) was founded by Robin Lee and Alan Pert in July 2002. NORD work on projects across a range of sectors, including residential, commercial, domestic, retail and leisure as well as interior design and exhibition design. NORD won Young Architect of the Year award in 2006.

www.nordarchitecture.com

O Street

O Street is a new design studio based in Glasgow. Between them creative directors David and Neil have a vast range of experience on blue chip accounts gained from their work with top agencies and design groups in the UK, Japan and the US. They have worked on advertising campaigns, textile design, guerrilla marketing, motion graphics, branding, photography, typography, illustration, and animation for clients including Nike, Microsoft and Jamie Oliver.

www.ostreet.co.uk

Olanic

Glasgow based fashion designer Niki Taylor established Olanic in 2002 with a customised t-shirt range. Inspired by streetwear, her collections are driven by the idea of heightening everyday, practical styles with a glamorous, tailored edge. Recent commissions include the design of a range of shoes for footwear label ‘Schuh’. In 2006 she was shortlisted for the Young Designer of the Year at the 2006 Scottish Fashion Awards.

www.olanic.co.uk

One Foot Taller

Established in 1995 by Katty Barac, One Foot Taller is a product, furniture and interior design company specialising in the design and supply of furniture and lighting. UK manufacturers are used where possible and materials used are a combination of the new, old and the recycled.

www.onefoottaller.com

Outgang

Founded by Phil Lynch in 2005, Outgang is an innovative and unconventional product design and development company that manufactures designs and then takes them to market. Outgang recently worked with Graeme Massie Architects on the Series X range, an innovative collection of multi use furniture.

www.outgang.com

Paul Kerlaff

Kerlaff is a new design studio, set up in 2007 by Edinburgh University architecture graduate Paul Kerr. Paul specialises in the design and manufacture of freestanding furniture, exploring the structural and decorative properties of Birch Plywood.

www.paulkerlaff.com

Pavillion

Pavillion is a design consultancy specialising in graphic, product, environmental and audio design across the commercial, cultural and civic sectors in the UK & abroad. Their clients include Italian sportswear producer Dirk Bikkenberg and the Scottish based Williams Brothers Brewing Company.

www.pavillion.org.uk

Pernilla Rozenberg

Pernilla graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in 2006 with a degree in Textiles. Her work is inspired by those parts of the human body that are not traditionally considered beautiful like hair, scars and marks, which she uses to create drawings and embroidery that inform her designs for fashion.

www.pernillarozenberg.com

Sarah Tripp

Sarah Tripp is a Glasgow based designer and film-maker who works with a range of individuals, companies and cultural organisations. In 2006 Sarah was commissioned by the UK Film Council, Scottish Screen and Glasgow Media Access Centre to produce her short film Me and Her.

www.sarahtripp.com

Show Pony

A graduate in Social Sciences and Product Design, Emma Henderson set up Show Pony in 2006. Show Pony produces printed products for the home and accessories market that seek to engage emotionally as well as functionally.

www.showpony.co.uk

Susan Kerr

Edinburgh based jewellery designer Susan Kerr creates jewellery that is unashamedly decorative, taking its influences from floral imagery and patterns found in the styles and motifs of Art Nouveau and Art Deco. Her recent work combines precious metal with leather and semi-precious beads in designs for brooches, necklaces and earrings.

www.susan-kerr.com

Timorous Beasties

Timorous Beasties design and manufacture fabrics, wallpapers and other products for interiors. Most of their work is produced from their studio in Glasgow for private clients and companies at home and abroad. Recent projects include the opening of their shop in 2004, a window display for the Wellcome Trust in London in 2005 and the release of their ? rst collection of wallpapers through Holland & Sherry across America in 2006. They were nominated for Designer of the Year by the London Design Museum in 2005.

www.timorousbeasties.com