Designerati 2015

The Drum Designerati, sponsored by Workfront, is an annual platform celebrating the UK's most influential designers.

From auto design, to fashion, to branding, the list highlights the diversity of the country's design sector today.

Compiled by consulting the industry and readers of The Drum, the list was then ranked by judges of The Drum Design Awards 2015.

The result is a list of 100 individuals celebrated for their ingenuity in fresh thinking, ability to inspire others, and a relentless commitment to design.

Rank	Name	Job Title	Company / Organisation
1	Ian Callum	design director	Jaguar
	Ian Callum's career has spanned from Ford to Aston Martin including the Cosworth Escort, Aston DB7 and Vanquish. He joined Jaguar in 1999 but continued to manage Aston Martin Design –... View Profile
2	Maggie Hodgetts	head of graphic design	Waitrose
	After graduating from Norwich School of Art Maggie took a job at design agency Larkin, Stratton and May working on retail brands including Guinness, Monsoon and Harvey Nichols. In 1998 she took... View Profile
3	Christopher Bailey	chief creative officer and chief executive officer	Burberry
	Christopher Bailey joined Burberry as design director in May 2001 and from the outset his creative vision was applied to all aspects of the brand. In partnership with former chief executive... View Profile
4	Michael Wolff	founder	Michael Wolff and Co
	Co-founder of Wolff Olins, Michael now runs Michael Wolff and Company, working with clients around the world both as a designer and creative advisor. He is a visiting professor at Central St... View Profile
5	Sir James Dyson	founder	Dyson LTD
	Industrial designer Sir James Dyson is perhaps best known for the invention of the Dual Cyclone bag-less vacuum cleaner. After failing to sell the product patent Dyson established his own... View Profile
6	Thomas Heatherwick	founder and principal	Heatherwick Studio
	Thomas Heatherwick is the founder of Heatherwick Studio, which was launched in 1994 and today houses a team of over 160 architects, designers and makers in a combined studio and workshop in London... View Profile
7	Sir John Sorrell	co-chair	The Sorrell Foundation
	John Sorrell is a UK business ambassador, appointed by successive prime ministers to promote Britain’s creative industries abroad. He co-founded the Sorrell Foundation with Frances Sorrell in... View Profile
8	Dan Germain	group head of brand and creative	innocent
	Dan Germain is group head of brand and creative at Innocent. He has worked at the drinks company since it was founded in 1999, and in 2014 was named designer of the year at The Drum Design Awards... View Profile
9	Sir Harry Pearce	partner	Pentagram
	Pearce’s work touches many disciplines, from spatial design and identity to print and packaging. His clients range from Phaidon Publishing, Williams F1 and Kangol to Shakespeare’s Globe, Saks Fifth... View Profile
10	Laura Jordan Bambach	creative partner	Mr President
	2015 is Laura Jordan Bambach’s 21st year in digital, of which she says: “I guess that finally makes me grown-up.” Currently creative partner at Mr. President, she cut her teeth working at Geekgirl... View Profile
11	Luke Pearson	founder and director	PearsonLloyd
	Luke Pearson is an industrial designer and founding partner, alongside Tom Lloyd, of London studio PearsonLloyd. The agency works in environments that have demanding spatial, ergonomic and social... View Profile
12	Adrian Caroen	chief executive	Seymourpowell
	After a short stint at microwave manufacturer Merrychef as part of his award package for the RSA Young Designer of the Year, Caroen started as a junior designer at Seymourpowell in 1989. Over the... View Profile
13	Sir Paul Smith	designer	Paul Smith
	Sir Paul Smith is one of the UK’s foremost fashion designers. He is renowned for a creative output that combines traditional and modern aesthetics. As a label, Paul Smith is famous for its... View Profile
14	Malcolm Garrett	creative director	Images & Co
	Malcolm Garrett is the creative director of ImagesandCo. He has a global reputation for his influence on graphic design and popular culture – both through landmark designs for clients including... View Profile
15	Gareth Howat	creative director	hat-trick
	Gareth set up Hat-trick design in 2001. His career began at The Partners where he worked for nine years before becoming creative director at Lapot and Glazer Design. He has designed and managed... View Profile
16	Garrick Hamm	creative partner	Williams Murray Hamm
	Garrick Hamm is creative partner at London-based brand invention and re-invention company, Williams Murray Hamm. Notable work includes the rebrand of Fortnum and Mason, the launch of the new... View Profile
17	Simon Manchipp	founder and executive strategic creative director	SomeOne
	After spending 10 years working at his advertising and design crossover NoOne, Simon went on to start SomeOne with David Law, Gary Holt and Laura Hussey. External examiner for St.Martins school... View Profile
18	Nicolas Roope	creative partner	Poke
	Nicolas Roope is a London-based cross-disciplinary creative entrepreneur behind Poke, Hulger, Plumen, Antirom and the Lovie Awards. He studied at Liverpool John Moores University in the early 90s... View Profile
19	Graham Shearsby	chief creative officer	Design Bridge
	Graham Shearsby is chief creative officer at Design Bridge and alongside his team of creative directors, oversees the firm’s three studios in London, Amsterdam and Singapore. Graham entered the... View Profile
20	Mary Lewis	creative director	Lewis Moberly
	Mary Lewis is creative director and founding partner of Lewis Moberly. She has won many awards including D&AD Gold, D&AD Silver Awards, D&AD president’s Award, and the DBA Grand Prix... View Profile
21	Jim Sutherland	designer	Freelance
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22	Dave Palmer	owner and executive creative director	LOVE
	Dave Palmer is one of the founding partners of Love with over 15 years of experience in branding, design and advertising. Specific projects include being the lead creative on the development of... View Profile
23	Greg Quinton	executive creative director	The Partners
	Greg is responsible for The Partners’ creative reputation and the quality of its work across London, New York and Singapore. Over the last 25 years he has helped the agency win over 200 awards... View Profile
24	Ije Nwokorie	chief executive	Wolff Olins
	Ije Nwokorie was “born in America, bred in Nigeria, and enlightened in England”. Starting an architecture degree at the University of Nigeria and completing it at Columbia University, New York in... View Profile
25	Marina Willer	partner	Pentagram
	Marina Willer is a Pentagram partner and creative director with a graphic design, branding and film background. She has led the design of many iconic brand identities such as the Tate Gallery,... View Profile
26	Mark Bonner	founder and co-creative director	GBH
	Bonner graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1993 and worked at The Partners, Carter Wong & Partners and SAS before co-founding multidisciplinary graphics group GBH in 1999. Now 16... View Profile
27	Karsten Schmidt	owner and creative director	PostSpectacular
	Karsten Schmidt (aka toxi) is an award-winning computational designer who merges code, design, interaction, and art and craft skills. Schmidt began his career at the deep end of the early 8-bit demo... View Profile
28	Lawrence Zeegen	professor of illustration / dean of the school of design	London College of Communication, University of the Arts London
	Professor Lawrence Zeegen is dean of the School of Design at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London where he leads undergraduate, postgraduate and research in communication... View Profile
29	Lee Draycott	partner and creative director	The One Off
	Lee Draycott is partner and creative director at The One Off, leading design teams in its Midlands and London offices. After studying graphic design at Loughborough Art College, Draycott began... View Profile
30	Tom Dixon	founder	Design Research Studio
	Tom Dixon is a self-taught British designer and the current creative director of the Tom Dixon brand specialising in lighting, furniture and accessories. Dixon rose to fame in the mid-80s and by... View Profile
31	Deyan Sudjic	director	Design Museum
	Deyan Sudjic was appointed director of the Design Museum in August 2006. Before joining the museum he was dean of the faculty of art, architecture and design at Kingston University, visiting... View Profile
32	Tim Greenhalgh	chairman and chief creative officer	Fitch
	Tim Greenhalgh has worked in the design industry for almost 30 years and leads the creative culture at Fitch. Originally trained a glassblower and furniture designer in Manchester, he now works... View Profile
33	Spencer Buck	founder and creative director	Taxi Studio
	Spencer Buck studied at Somerset College of Arts and Technology before landing his first job at brand specialists Blackburn's. Two years later, he left London and helped run a small creative... View Profile
34	Simon Sankarayya	co-founder	AllofUS
	Simon 'Sanky' Sankarayya co-founded AllofUs, the firm’s client roster includes BBC, Covent Garden, Davina McCall, Ikea, The Nature Conservancy and Tony Blair. Sankarayya is a regular... View Profile
35	Ian Ritchie	executive creative director	jones knowles ritchie
	Ian graduated from Leeds School of Art in 1983 with a first class degree in graphic design. In his early years as a designer, he was responsible for the Levi’s 501 identity, Tag Heuer’s watch... View Profile
36	Andrew Lawrence	executive creative director	Elmwood
	During Andrew Lawrence’s time at Elmwood he has been responsible for the creative direction of many of the firm’s largest clients across corporate, packaging and retail sectors. He has contributed... View Profile
37	Bruce Duckworth	founder, chief creative officer and joint chief executive	Turner Duckworth
	Bruce Duckworth founded Turner Duckworth with fellow British designer David Turner in 1992. The firm won the first ever Cannes Grand Prix for Design for Coca-Cola and was also the first design... View Profile
38	Harriet Devoy	creative director	Apple
	Harriet Devoy graduated in 1994 from the University of Central Lancashire with a BA (Hons) in graphic design. Devoy joined Apple in 2006 taking on the newly-created position of creative director for... View Profile
39	Ian Anderson	founder / creative director	The Designers Republic
	Anderson studied philosophy at the University of Sheffield from 1979 to 1982, as a designer he is self-taught. He declared The Designers Republic on Bastille Day in 1986 in Sheffield, and the... View Profile
40	Neville Brody	chief executive and founding associate	Brody Associates
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41	Jason Bruges	creative director and founder	Jason Bruges Studio
	Jason Bruges is a multi-disciplinary artist and designer based in London. His work blends architecture with interaction design and uses a high-tech, mixed media palette to explore spectacle, time... View Profile
42	Jonathan Barnbrook	designer	Barnbrook
	Graphic designer, film maker, type designer and activist, Jonathan Barnbrook’s most notable clients include David Bowie and Damien Hirst. He has also undertaken several extensive collaborations... View Profile
43	Stuart Watson	executive creative director	Design Studio
	Stuart Watson started his career at Wolff Olins after being discovered at a degree show. He spent time working on global rebrand projects in Brazil and New York before jumping ship to Venturethree... View Profile
44	Paul Priestman	director	PriestmanGoode
	Paul Priestman is a designer, co-founding director of Priestmangoode and global creative director of CSR Sifang. The guiding principle in Priestman's work is his belief that design is "... View Profile
45	Steve Vranakis	executive creative director	Google Creative Lab
	Steve Vranakis has worked in digital, design and advertising agencies all over the world and believes that "technology combined with creativity can be used as a force for good" and allow... View Profile
46	Ross Mawdsley	creative director	AKQA
	Ross Mawdsley started his design career in a Liverpool advertising agency after dropping out of a product design degree. An early pioneer of flash, he jumped ship to digital in 1996 and designed... View Profile
47	Josh Payton	vice-president, user experience, Europe	Huge
	Josh Payton is vice-president of user experience for Huge's European and Asian offices, partnering with the global strategy, design and development teams in the creation and long-term management... View Profile
48	Malcolm Stewart	creative director	Tayburn
	Malcolm Stewart began his career in London, before moving to Tayburn, where he has been creative director, and latterly co-owner for the past seven years. During his tenure Tayburn has garnered... View Profile
49	Matt Pyke	founder and creative director	Universal Everything
	Matt Pyke is the founder and creative director of Universal Everything and a media artist and designer. His work explores the tension between abstract and figurative form and the synesthesia of... View Profile
50	Natalie Chung	creative director	Pearlfisher
	Natalie Chung is creative director at Pearlfisher, and has worked with the design agency for over 10 years. She believes in “ensuring that every concept communicates the truth of a brand in a way... View Profile
51	Adrian Shaughnessy	designer, writer, publisher and educator	Unit Editions
	Adrian Shaughnessy spent fifteen years as creative director of Intro, the design studio he co-founded in 1988 in London. In 2004 he left to pursue an interest in writing and lecturing, and to... View Profile
52	Alex Bec	managing director	It’s Nice That, INT Works
	Alex Bec has helped take It’s Nice That from start-up to creative media company that reaches half a million people every month. Working across It’s Nice That and sister agency INT Works, Bec has... View Profile
52	Will Hudson	creative director	It’s Nice That
	Will Hudson is the founder and creative director of It's Nice That, a London based creative media company focused on championing creativity. It's Nice That do this by publishing work... View Profile
53	Bruno Maag	chairman	Dalton Maag
	Born in Zurich Bruno Maag spent four years training as typesetter before moving on to work for Monotype as type designer in England and Chicago. Whilst in the States he established Dalton Maag... View Profile
54	Jeremy Lindley	global design director	Diageo
	Jeremy Lindley is responsible for design across Diageo’s current brands and new products worldwide. Working with brands such as Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray and Guinness, Lindley’... View Profile
55	Jonathan Ford	founding partner and chief creative officer	Pearlfisher
	An advocate of “the power of creativity to inspire change”, Jonathan Ford has led the creation of some of the world’s best-known brands and has won numerous awards for his work, including a Gold... View Profile
55	Karen Welman	founding partner and chief creative officer	Pearlfisher
	Karen Welman is founding partner and chief creative officer at Pearlfisher. She works with a several brands including Dairy Milk, Waitrose and Lurpack across digital, 3D, packaging and more.... View Profile
56	John Benson	design director	Stocks Taylor Benson
	John Benson graduated from Canterbury College of Art in 1984 and began his career at Oakley Young Associates as a graphic designer. He set up Stocks Taylor Benson with Glenn Taylor in 1988 and the... View Profile
57	Simon Farrell	managing director	Tayburn
	Simon Farrell moved to Scotland ten years ago when he took on the role of managing director at Edinburgh-based design consultancy Tayburn. He has over 20 years’ experience in the world of branded... View Profile
58	Steven Bonner	owner and designer	Steven Bonner
	Steve Bonner is a freelance designer, illustrator and typographic artist who works across a range of industries for clients such as Nike, Audi, The New York Times, and Renault. He has been the... View Profile
59	Wayne Hemingway	designer	HemingwayDesign
	Gerardine and Wayne Hemingway have enacted a philosophy that “design is about improving things that matter in life”. After selling their first fashion brand, Red or Dead, in the 1990s, the... View Profile
59	Gerardine Hemingway	designer	HemingwayDesign
	Gerardine and Wayne Hemingway have enacted a philosophy that “design is about improving things that matter in life”. After selling their first fashion brand, Red or Dead, in the 1990s, the... View Profile
60	Michael Johnson	creative and strategy director	Johnson Banks
	After having eight jobs in eight years, Johnson founded Johnson banks in 1992. The agency works on a wide range of branding projects, increasingly with an emphasis on 'design for good'... View Profile
61	Craig Oldham	creative director	The Office of Craig Oldham
	Craig Oldham is a self-confessed “designer, educator, writer, publisher, film-maker, letter-writer, website-up-putter and Yorkshireman”. In nine colourful years, Oldham has won over 50 industry... View Profile
62	Joe Macleod	designer	Independent Project
	Joe Macleod has been working in the mobile design space since 1998. From helping develop streamlined packaging for Nokia to creating a hack team to disrupt the “corporate drone” of Powerpoint and... View Profile
63	Ian Thompson	creative director	Thompson Brand Partners
	Ian Thompson is the founder and creative director at Thompson Brand Partners, which launched in 1984. From Confused.com to Leeds Building Society and Paul Smith the agency has worked with a... View Profile
64	Mark Denton Esquire	creative director	Coy! Communications
	Mark Denton says he was inspired to enter the world of design after reading the Eagle comic ‘Book of Careers’ in 1964, when he “discovered there was such a thing as a commercial artist”. 1975 saw... View Profile
65	Martino Gamper	designer	Freelance
	Italian designer based in London Martino Gamper came to prominence with his 100 Chairs in 100 Days project which was exhibited in London in 2007, the Milan Triennale in 2009 and at YBCA in San... View Profile
66	Jon Hicks	managing director	Hicks Design
	English designer Jon Hicks is managing director of HicksDesign. Hicks left school at 16 and studied a BTEC ND in technical illustration for two years followed by a HND in wildlife illustration. He... View Profile
67	Morag Myerscough	designer	Studio Myerscough, Supergroup London
	Designer Morag Myerscough creates and curates many different projects. The eclectic breadth of her work covers the conversion of a train to a cafe, installations, exhibitions, hospital wards and even... View Profile
68	Nick Eagleton	UK creative director	The Partners
	Nick Eagleton is UK Creative Director at The Partners in London. His fifteen years there have seen him involved in award-winning work for clients as diverse as Deloitte, with their 210,000 people... View Profile
69	Brendan Dawes	designer	Brendan Dawes
	After leaving school at 16 Brendan Dawes became a local news photographer for a few years, before moving on to study sound engineering in Manchester. He released several records on the 3 Beat... View Profile
70	Noma Bar	graphic artist , designer and illustrator	Noma Bar
	Noma Bar is known for his ability to see things differently, and his use of negative space to create double-take images. His bold use of colours, economy of shapes and iconography makes his style... View Profile
71	Patrick Brill	associate professor in fine art	London Metropolitan University
	Renowned artist, activist and intellectual, Patrick Brill (aka Bob and Roberta Smith), teaches fine art and leads the Public Acts thematic studio at The CASS. Brill’s research and artistic... View Profile
72	Adam Rix	associate creative director	Music
	Adam Rix has over 10 years’ experience in the creative industry. Previously creative head at Love where worked on clients such as Silver Cross, Dr Martens, Umbro and Tate, he then started up his... View Profile
73	Alannah Weston	deputy chairman	Selfridges
	Alannah Weston joined Selfridges as creative director in 2004, overseeing 6000 staff, and was named deputy chairman of the department store’s parent company Selfridges Group in January 2014.... View Profile
74	Steve Davies	head of design	Grey London
	As design director, Steve is driving Grey London's ambition to push aesthetically across all media and brands. Since joining in 2012 from Saatchi & Saatchi, he has grown the department... View Profile
75	Anthony Burrill	graphic designer	Anthony Burrill Design
	Anthony Burrill’s persuasive, up-beat illustration and design has been commissioned by cultural, social and commercial clients around the world from New York, to London to Tokyo. He has also... View Profile
76	Edward Barber	founding director	Barber & Osgerby
	Barber graduated from London's Royal College of Art and established London-based studio Barber & Osgerby in 1996 with fellow alumnus Jay Osgerby. Barber received the prestigious Jerwood... View Profile
76	Jay Osgerby	founding director	Barber & Osgerby
	Jay Osgerby attained his master's degree in architecture at London's Royal College of Art and established London-based design studio Barber & Osgerby in 1996 with fellow alumnus Edward... View Profile
77	Simon Elliott	creative partner	Rose
	Simon Elliott is a creative partner at multi-award winning branding consultancy, Rose, whose clients include Bafta, Deutsche Bank, ENO, London Underground, Tate, The Lanesborough Hotel, V&A and... View Profile
78	Chris Forrester	head of design	Vivid
	Chris Forrester began his career by studying graphic arts and design at Leeds Metropolitan University. His first graduate job was at a photography studio building sets, something that he says has... View Profile
79	Dominic Wilcox	artist and designer	Dominic Wilcox Studio
	Dominic Wilcox works between the worlds of art, design, craft and technology to create innovative and thought provoking objects. Recent work includes the design of the world's first pair of... View Profile
80	Gregg Lawrence	creative director	Yoyo
	Gregg Lawrence first started his career in print design and then moved to digital circa 2001 as an interactive flash designer. He has worked for an impressive variety of brands including... View Profile
81	Louise Sloper	head of design	CHI & Partners
	Louise joined CHI & Partners in 2014 as head of design. Prior to this she held the same role at BETC London helping to establish the Paris agency’s London startup. Over her career she has... View Profile
82	Michael Sheridan	chairman and founder	Sheridan&Co
	An engineer by trade Michael Sheridan worked for a design agency for five years before founding Sheridan&Co in 1983 at the start of the concession trend. The agency specialises in department... View Profile
83	Nick Clement	Creative Director, Designer and Glug Founder	Glug Events
	Nick Clement is a Creative Director, Designer and founder of Glug. Nick previously worked at Native Design as Creative Director, and has held senior positions running digital departments at the... View Profile
84	Adam Ellis	creative director	The Cabinet
	Adam Ellis graduated from the University of Central Lancashire with a degree in graphic design. He then spent five years with London-based brand specialists Ziggurat, joining Coley Porter Bell in... View Profile
85	David Crow	dean of faculty of art and design	Manchester metropolitan university
	Before taking to higher education, Crow’s industrial experience was acquired in London where he worked on the design and production of various books, brochures, packaging and promotional material... View Profile
86	Flo Heiss	creative partner	Dare
	Flo joined Dare in 2000, taking on the role of creative director in 2003 and executive creative director in 2009. He founded Studio Heiss in 2013 and returned to Dare in 2014 as a creative... View Profile
87	Gary Glozier	design director	TH_NK
	Gary Glozier is the design director and co-founder of TH_NK. Clients include Warner Bros, Britvic, ALJ Toyota, Nando’s and more recently Atom – the Durham-based firm applying to be the first bank... View Profile
88	Gerry McGovern	design director and chief creative officer	Land Rover
	After completing a degree in industrial design at Coventry University, Gerry McGovern went on to study for a master's at the Royal College of Art in London, specialising in automotive design... View Profile
89	Jo Kotas	creative director	Meme Partnership
	Jo Kotas began her career as a motion designer, designing for BBC and UKTV. After two years she left and was invited to join Bunch, where she evolved from motion designer to joint owner and... View Profile
90	John Morgan	founder and director	John Morgan Studio
	John Morgan is a designer, typographer and founder of John Morgan studio. The studio has developed an international reputation for close working relationships with artists, architects and... View Profile
91	Johnny Kelly	director	Nexus
	Johnny Kelly is a director and master of design, working across various disciplines including stop frame and 2D animation, graphic design and illustration. Johnny held posts at two graphic design... View Profile
92	Jon Tan	designer and typographer	Fontdeck
	Jon Tan first started designing with Lego and regards it as the best metaphor for what he does today. From dabbling in print design using plate and press in 1992, he moved to digital design circa... View Profile
93	Paul Taylor	executive creative director	BrandOpus
	Paul Taylor is a founding partner and executive creative director at BrandOpus. His "obsession" with graphics started early, at age 16 he already had his mind set on a career in design... View Profile
94	Julia Whitney	executive creative director, BBC engineering	BBC
	Julia Whitney plays two roles at the BBC, she is the executive creative director of BBC Engineering, where she brings a human-centred design approach to internal systems, and general manager of user... View Profile
95	Matt Chapman	managing and creative director	Contagious
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96	Sophie Thomas	director of design	RSA
	Sophie Thomas has been working in the fields of sustainable design, behaviour change and material process through her design agency, Thomas.Matthews for over 15 years and as director of design for... View Profile
97	Stuart Humm	creative director	Coley Porter Bell
	An "obsession with hand crafted design and a penchant for making furniture, sign painting and home-brewing beer" are all things that Stuart Humm has become well known for at Coley Porter... View Profile
98	Andy Altmann	founding partner	Why Not Associates
	On leaving the Royal College of Art in 1987 Andy Altmann formed the multi-disciplinary design group Why Not Associates with fellow graduates Howard Greenhalgh and David Ellis. In over 25 years of... View Profile
99	Ben Parker	founder and creative director	Made Thought
	After studying at Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication in South-East London with his now business partner Paul Austin, followed by a short stint at North Design, the pair founded Made... View Profile
100	Clive Grinyer	customer experience director	Barclays
	Co-founder of Tangerine Design consultancy with Jonathan Ive and Martin Darbyshire, Clive Grinyer has led design teams in both consultancies and organisations. A self-confessed "evangelist... View Profile

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