Sophie Thompson

Textiles Designer Sophie has had a dynamic, diverse career working across surface design for interiors and has worked with several high street brands including Romo, John Lewis, Clarke and Clarke and Prestigious texti... Read More
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Sarah Nixon

Textiles Designer Sarah graduated from The Northern School  of Art in 2009, and launched her design career as a designer maker with Blooming Beautiful Designs, then designing within the team at George Home. She recent... Read More
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Dave Sedgewick

Designer StudioDBD StudioDBD are an independent design studio based in Manchester who specialise in creating and nurturing brands. Dave has worked in the design industry for over 20 years. Starting out as a junior des... Read More
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Maria Cooper

Senior Print Designer Maria is the Senior Print Designer at Orla Kiely. After leaving The Northern where she gained her first degree she secured an MA in Printed Textiles from the Royal College of Art and subsequently... Read More
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Gillian Arnold

Surface Designer & Business Owner Gillian has a successful surface design business based in the North East. She sells textile products internationally and her business is growing continually. She regularly recruit... Read More
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Davinder Madaher

Surface Designer Davinder has been a practicing surface designer for more than 30 years, working in the UK and USA for an impressive range of companies and clients. His work includes Gap, Guess, Liz Clairbourne, Victo... Read More
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Matt East

Co-founder EPH Creative Matt is the co-founder of EPH Creative a supplier to the themed events industry specialising in the design, creation & supply of high quality & visually outstanding event theming and pr... Read More
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Grant Montgomery

Art Director & Production Designer Grant Montgomery is a production designer and art director, known for his work on HETV projects such as Peaky Blinders, Sanditon and Ghost Stories – he also worked on feature fil... Read More
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Tina Sherifa Hicks

Production Designer & Art Director Tina is a Production Designer and Art Director whose many credits include: Waterloo Road; Scott and Bailey; Moving On; and The Dumping Ground. Tina has long worked with the schoo... Read More
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Frede Spencer

Twenty Twenty Founder Frede is the founder of Twenty Twenty. Twenty Twenty is a London based creative agency representing a multi-disciplined group of visual artists working across photography, illustration, motion an... Read More