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Scene show their entire collection of designs together with two new product launches.
The show will feature Scene’s latest products, ‘Time shelves’ and ‘Doris nesting tables’ along with their new look, kid’s height measuring coat hooks, ‘Hook Ups’ which will be available to buy from September. Scene will also be launching their ‘Drop candle holders’ along with a new lighting product.
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What made you want to become a designer in the first place?
I never became a designer; I was born one. During primary school I was always dreaming during class hours and building stuff at home.

Where did you study design?
I studied design in Belgium. This country had been my choice because I wanted to have an international education. The education I started was at the Interior Design school called ´Faydherbe Academy´. Apart from this education I also studied in Germany.
During my education of Interior design, they were also teaching the discipline of Furniture design. After a while I began to like that more than Interior design.
This is why I completed a second bachelor in ´Furniture design at the Faydherbe Academy.
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What made you want to become a designer in the first place?
A few years ago one of my old tutors said that I would probably became a designer because I played with Lego blocks a lot as a child and he himself went into architecture because he enjoyed playing with the Mecano toys so much as a child.

I actually thought about this for a while and it is not a bad assumption. I think it is true that those toys helped me learn a lot of essential skills: how to imagine things; how to solve problems; how to realise the things in my head and most importantly, playing with Lego blocks taught me that nothing around us is never perfect, I can always make improvements to my Lego creations. And also, I never liked to follow the manuals.
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What made you want to become a designer in the first place?
Necessity

Where did you study design?
University of South Australia

What was the first thing you designed?
D: One man hallway cricket

E: adventure parks (made from toilet rolls) for my pet rats

How do you define good design?
“just nice”

meaning: you like it when you see it, and there isn’t a over-embellished story to convince you to.

What would you be if not a designer?
D: Professional Sportsman (most probably play for the Chicago Bulls)

E: Librarian
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Lucy Turner has received national critical acclaim. The Telegraph considers her amongst the elite cabinet makers currently working in the UK. Exciting and distinctive Lucy utilises the latest technologies and materials in the creation of her bespoke contemporary furniture. Her unique process is transferable across the spectrum of interior design.

What made you become a designer?
I just followed a path where I could make things all the time. I still make things

Where did you study design?
University of Plymouth – Exeter campus

What was the first thing you designed?
A bit embarrassing but when I was very young I had a fascination with making cardboard telephones, loads of them, all different styles and colours. Weird I know.
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Image:photos by Ed Reeve
What made you want to become a designer in the first place?
I have a need to create and bring objects into the world.

Where did you study design?
I studied at Falmouth and Kingston Universities.

What was the first thing you designed?
When I was a child I used to spend hours and hours drawing impossible houses and cars, I wanted to be an architect. Then when I was about ten I designed a desk that my father had made specially, it was terrible, much too high.
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What made you want to become a designer in the first place?

I studied Graphic Design at GCSE and A Level and it was simply the subject that I got on with-purely because I felt that my contributions were useful–I thought that studying the subject in more depth, could allow me to develop my design skills and apply them in a commercial context. I chose to study Illustration at University College Falmouth because I thought that it would give me the space to develop my skills and would place me in a good position to get work afterwards. It did both those things for me and I’m eternally grateful to the whole Falmouth team!

Where did you study design?
I studied Illustration at University College Falmouth
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What made you want to become a designer in the first place?
While living in Mexico, I spent 8 years working as an artist. I remain passionate about my painting, however, six years ago I decided to pursue a greater passion: design.

One of the reasons I’ve enjoyed the change the most is because Design creates everyday beauty for everyone. Design, unlike art, permeates every aspect of our modern lives, directly affecting our behaviours and our everyday activities, from the first cup of coffee in the morning to the pillow we sleep on at night.
Often the simplest everyday objects are the most elegantly designed.
Nonetheless, I think that having spent years working as an artist has given my design work a different and enriching dimension.

Where did you study design?

I studied two years of Industrial Design in Arizona State University, in the United States before coming to London to continue my design studies at Central Saint Martins in the Product Design course, from where I just graduated.

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