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What made you want to become a designer in the first place?
I was always interested in how things around me were made and came together. At school art was a big strength, and my love of drawing led me naturally onto drawing objects. I love eexamining how objects and products are made and put together, the intricacies of form and function.

Where did you study design?
I did an Art Foundation course in Loughborough and a furniture Design degree at Nottingham University
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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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What made you want to become a designer in the first place?
When I was 16 I travelled up from my family home in Cornwall to visit 100% Design. I was just about to go to Art College and trying to decide what I wanted to do career-wise, after sessions with the school careers advisor usually ended up at the conclusion of “I just want to make things!”. As I walked around the show and visited designer’s stands I knew that I wanted to be a designer-maker. I was always making and drawing as a child and after hours of messing around in my mum’s sewing room with her vintage sewing machine and fabric remnants, I knew that textile design was my thing.

Where did you study design?
I started studying art and design back home in the West Country. I went to Art College in Plymouth and did my foundation studies there and then went onto Buckinghamshire and Chilterns University where I did my degree in Textile and Surface Design.

What was the first thing you designed?
I think the first actual finished product that I made was a silk screen printed tabletop set at college. I still have photos of it somewhere I think. Looking back at it now there are many similarities in the style and formation of the pattern to my work today. It was a nature-inspired repeat pattern combining graphic elements and organic motifs which is a theme that continues to run through all my designs.

How do you define good design?
Simple, functional, honest and aesthetically beautiful.
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What made you want to become a designer in the first place?
I was working as a 3D design technician in a university, and just thought to myself ‘I should be doing this’

Where did you study design?
I studied fine art painting at Nottingham Trent, and then later 3D design ‘Designer Maker’ at the university of Plymouth
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What made you want to become a designer in the first place?
I read a book about design that my father gave me, when I was 14. It was written by Gérard Caron, founder of a French design company called Carré Noir, and was mainly dealing with branding & Packaging. My first job as a designer, 9 years after, was at Carré Noir London.

Where did you study design?
I first studied Interior Design at the ENSAAMA Olivier de Serres in Paris, where I’ve learnt all the basics: we weren’t allowed computers, so every renders had to be hand drawn and coloured! Took a long time but it sure taught us how to use our hands. After graduation I then came to England where I did another degree in Graphic Communication. Since then I live in London.
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What made you want to become a designer in the first place?

I am not a designer by education, but from a very young age I knew what I liked and I noticed how the people around me were reacting to my choices in all design choices, be it in my home, or in what I wore. So, actually, I started making ‘things’ in my teens, because I always had a very clear idea of what I wanted, and it was usually something I imagined, so I had to make it. It is only in the last few years that I started doing it professionally, and this, also, started by accident.
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What made you want to become a designer in the first place?
When I was a little kid I always dreamed of being an inventor, at that time I was of course totally unaware of the mere existence of the design occupation, as I’ve come to know it now.
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What made you want to become a designer in the first place?

Since I was 15 years old, I had a motorbike and started to love doing modification and drawing for my bike. It became part of myself, even though at that time I can’t produce anything with 1 to 1 scale model, I just drew it on paper or doing small scale with paper and scissor.
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