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RDInsights

Royal Designers for Industry

RDInsights is a biweekly podcast series where Mike Dempsey RDI interviews, both current and archived recordings, with distinguished Royal Designers for Industry. Through these conversations, we can gain insight into the minds of some of the most influential cross-disciplinary creative thinkers. Mike gives us a peek into their lives and practice as they discuss their journeys, challenges and successes in the design world.Royal Designers for Industry Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more

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1:11:11

David Pearson

RDInsights ·

2024/06/04

Mike is in conversation with the graphic designer David Pearson RDI,who inhabits the highly competitive world of book cover design; he is a self-confessed Typophile, naming his company 'Type As Image' where typography is king. Ironically, one of David's most renowned covers was for George Orwell's 1984, which had all front cover types redacted as a powerful representation of that dystopian tale. When not designing, you'll find him teaching or talking to hungry young students here and abroad. In

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1:19:38

Kenneth Grange

RDInsights ·

2024/05/28

For many, the work of Sir Kenneth Grange RDI would have touched their lives at some point; think the classic TX1 taxi, the ease of taking a photo with a Kodak Instomatic, whipping up a storm in the kitchen with a Kenwood Chef or nodding off while travelling on the sleek lines of the intercity 125, or posting a letter in one of Kenneth's postboxes or writing that masterpiece under the light of the anglepoise adjustable lamp or popping a coin in the very first parking meter or keeping dry while

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1:02:01

Sarah Wigglesworth

RDInsights ·

2024/04/30

This is an RDInsights Archive recording from 2013 with Sarah Wigglesworth RDI MBE, the British award-winning architect who was a Professor of Architecture at the University of Sheffield until 2016 and has long been an outspoken advocate of the role of women in architecture. In 1995, she initiated Desiring Practices: Architecture, Gender and the Interdisciplinary, an exhibition, symposium, catalogue, and book that explored gender differences in architectural practice. Mike Dempsey RDI caught up with

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Terence Woodgate

RDInsights ·

2024/04/09

This RDInsights archive recording from 2009 features product designer Terence Woodgate RDI. In 2023, he left the UK to set up a new home and studio close to Roca-Corba Mountain, just outside of Girona in Catalonia, Spain. We look forward to seeing new work emerge from his new permanent base in these sunnier climes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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52:25

Ken Adam

RDInsights ·

2024/03/12

Mike Dempsey RDI selects a memorable Archive recording from 2010 with the great Oscar and BAFTA-winning film production designer Sir Kenneth Adam RDI. Stephen Spielberg described his design for the war room in Stanly Kubrick's 'Dr Strangelove' as "the greatest set in cinema history." Hear about this, his work on 'Barry Lyndon', the iconic James Bond films of the 1960s and 1970s, and his fascinating early life and beginnings in cinema. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:19:13

Lauren Child

RDInsights ·

2024/02/20

Mike meets with the celebrated children's author and illustrator Lauren Child RDI, who burst onto the publishing scene in 1999 with Clarice Bean - That's Me, followed in 2000 by Charlie & Lola - I Will Not Ever Never Eat a Tomato. They quickly became firm favourites to millions of children worldwide. Over the years, Lauren garnered many awards and honours, including the Kate Greenaway Medal, an MBE, CBE and Royal Designer for Industry. She was also the 2017 Children's Laureate. But Lauren’s

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1:09:31

Christoph Niemann

RDInsights ·

2024/02/06

In conversation with Mike Dempsey RDI Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:04:45

Kyle Cooper

RDInsights ·

2024/01/16

This is an RDInsights archive recording from 2008 with Kyle Cooper Hon RDI. His original title sequence for David Fincher's crime drama feature film 'Se7en' had a significant impact and enduring influence on the creative discipline of title design, that is still evident on feature films and TV dramas around the world.In this interview, Kyle talks about his troubled Massachusetts working-class early life. With little interest in school but an insatiable appetite and love for drawing, he was

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1:06:10

Lucinda Chambers

RDInsights ·

2023/12/12

In this latest edition of RDInsights, Mike is in conversation with Lucinda Chambers RDI, the British fashion director, designer, and stylist who worked at Vogue magazine for 36 years and is also in demand as a consultant to many major fashion brands.Her creative path in that seemingly glamorous world was a combination of mishaps, luck, hard work, dedication, creative imagination and passion for her subject, which she continues in her new fashion enterprise, Collagerie, curating the best of fashion,

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49:36

Kate Hopkins

RDInsights ·

2023/12/05

In this new episode of RDInsights, Mike is in conversation with Kate Hopkins RDI, the three-time BAFTA-awarded documentary sound designer.Her meticulous and imaginative work spanning over three decades in landmark productions like Blue Planet, Planet Earth, and Frozen Planet has enabled audiences worldwide to experience a heightened reality through her extraordinary creative sound work. In 2014, Kate was awarded The Technicolor Creative Technology Award for Women in Film and Television. Hosted on

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57:13

Charlie Paton

RDInsights ·

2023/11/22

Charlie Paton is a design engineer with a passion for growing things.He owns and manages an ancient woodland and designs greenhouses that are cooled with seawater for applications in some of the most unlikely places, such as the hottest and most arid deserts. Here he discusses his early success with motorised lighting for theatre, and reflects on the importance of creative thinking for every part of the design process. This RDInsights interview, with Mike Dempsey RDI, is from our archive and

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43:34

Michael Wolff

RDInsights ·

2023/11/12

This RDInsights Archive recording featuring Michael Wolff RDI, made with Mike Dempsey RDI in 2012, and this podcast issue coincides with Michael’s 90th birthday today, 12 November, along with news that a major book about his life and work is to be published in the spring of 2024. Michael discusses his relationships with companies and their leaders and a more profound connection with brands beyond logos. And the role of the designer. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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57:03

Fernando Gutiérrez

RDInsights ·

2023/10/17

Mike Dempsey RDI interviews graphic designer Fernando Gutiérrez RDI. Gutiérrez's career began in 1986 at CDT Design in London. In 1992, he relocated to Spain and joined Sumer in Barcelona. After briefly returning to London, he formed Studio Graphica in Barcelona with fellow designer Pablo Martin. In 2000, Gutiérrez moved back to the UK as a Pentagram Partner, where he worked for six years. In 2006, he established Studio Fernando Gutiérrez.Born in London in the 1960s to Spanish parents, Gutiérrez

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51:28

Thomas Heatherwick

RDInsights ·

2023/10/03

This archive recording was the very first RDInsights interview.It was made in April 2006 with the brilliant designer Thomas Heatherwick RDI, who was beginning to make waves. We all know how big those waves became, with many significant projects now completed worldwide. The essence of Thomas’s thinking and his approach to creativity is very evident in this 17-year-old conversation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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41:18

Sara Fanelli

RDInsights ·

2023/09/19

We return to one of the earliest RDInsight recordings, with the illustrator and writer Sara Fanelli Hon RDI, recorded in 2006.Mike Dempsey RDI caught up with Sara recently. She has devoted a great deal of her time to homeschooling her daughter Flora but has also ventured into the world of architecture with commissions from Thomas Heatherwick, for whom she created illustrations of science, art, and literature embossed into the concrete walls of the new Learning Hub at the Nanyang Technological

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48:04

David Gentleman

RDInsights ·

2023/09/05

This recording from the RDI Sound Archive with Royal Designer David Gentleman was made in 2010 during his 80th year.Since then, he has had three new books published, three exhibitions of his work and in 2022, Royal Mail issued a set of six stamps commemorating his work.Now, at 93, you will still find him around London or in Suffolk with pen and watercolours capturing the world around him. Speaking recently, interviewer Mike Dempsey RDI, learned that David was hunkered down working on a new book with

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42:58

Margaret Howell

RDInsights ·

2023/08/24

In 2020 Margaret Howell RDI celebrated her five decades in the world of fashion design. Throughout those years, Margaret has kept to her abiding principles of creating elegant, classic and understated fashion through her love of tweeds, corduroys, linen, wool and cotton, all carefully selected to develop her sense of Englishness with her passion for muted natural colours and patterns.Mike Dempsey RDI recorded this conversation in 2007 in a rather busy and, at times, a little noisy space. Today

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44:35

Derek Birdsall

RDInsights ·

2023/07/26

In 2018 Mike Dempsey, RDI, interviewed one of the titans of British graphic design and typography, Derek Birdsall RDI.A few years before that conversation, Derek walked into his Islington studio at the back of his house, where he was about to start work on a new book commissioned by a regular client. Looking down for some time at the manuscript and the accompanying pile of photographs on his Desk, Derek suddenly decided he’d had enough of solving other people's problems, something he'd been doing

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Andrew Grant

RDInsights ·

2023/07/11

In this interview with the landscape architect Andrew Grant RDI, Mike Dempsey RDI covers Andrew’s idyllic farming childhood, the long path to discovering his creative potential, his teenage passion for the illustrator Roger Dean’s otherworldly landscapes, and the reality of his own interpretation of such a setting in Singapore that would change his life and firmly establish him on the global creative map. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:07:29

Peter Brookes

RDInsights ·

2023/07/04

Nine years after this 2008 interview with The Times, political cartoonist Peter Brookes RDI was awarded a CBE in the 2017 New Year's Honours List. Gone is his original tiny triangular Times office with the smallest window imaginable and its view of a red brick wall, to a desk boasting a magnificent view of London's skyline with the Shard centre stage. From this vantage point, Peter will produce his daily creation with acerbic wit, making the paper's readers laugh out loud or be infuriated in equal

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