Designers
Simon Stevens is an award winning product designer and a driving force in ceramic design. Simon has worked with some of World’s most prestigious ceramic manufacturers and has taught and lectured on the subject throughout the UK. He has headed up Design Teams for lifestyle brands and now continues his design career in the established Simon Stevens Design Studio based in London. Simon’s dynamic creativity resulted in his most successful designs being in the permanent collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Frankfurt Museum of Applied Art.
Tracy Hollins studied both BA and MA in Ceramic Design at Staffordshire University, she now continues to build her career on providing a bespoke freelance service to the hospitality, tabletop and gift markets. Her unique surface design style has enjoyed great success and wide exposure from high street retail to the most prestigious cruise liners, top international hotels, 5 star restaurants and exclusive department stores. Tracy brings creativity and sensitivity to pattern design, this approach having recently won an Elle Decoration award for the beautiful archive inspired ‘Cuckoo’ range launched at Frankfurt 2010.
Collection: A Curious Toile
What’s That was founded in 2004 by David Leung and Mo Mou. The goal is to strike a balance between the interpretation of the designer’s subjective aesthetic experience and the objective market demands, and to have the product appeal to all. What’s That designs were awarded in numerous international & local design competitions in recent years including iF Design Award China 2005 & 2006, HKDA 07 Awards, Red dot design award (Communication Design) 2009 and more.
Collection: Range
Lee Chi Wing Born in Hong Kong, Milk Design’s Lee Chi Wing received a BA in Industrial Design from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. After obtaining his MA from the Les Ateliers in 1992, he remained in Paris working for several design consultants. He returned to Hong Kong in 1994 and joined Philips Design in 1995. In 1998, he set up Milk design, his own “novel design” company offering local and international clients industrial design and product development services. Under the view that design is simple and human, design is an important tool to provide various possibilities and experience to our daily life
Collection: Miix
Peter Ting is an award winning ceramic designer and consultant with an extensive knowledge of the history of ceramics, computer techniques and both craft skills and industrial production processes. His clients range from department stores to small niche brands, manufacturers with hundred of employees to those who work as a small co-operative unit. One constant throughout is his quest for beauty and quality through design and craftsmanship. Recently, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London acquired 2 pieces from Peter Ting’s Buddha Hands series, and the Museum of Art and Design in New York acquired 2 pieces from his Constellation Series, “Shuffle” and “Perch”.
Collection: Flutter