On Design with Justyna Green

This week I'm in conversation with Matt Gibberd, co-founder of The Modern House and designer and artist Yinka Ilori. We've come together not only to discuss Yinka's popular Colour Palace - the Dulwich Pavilion 2019 he designed, which is now on sale on The Modern House website. We also discuss all things craftsmanship and colour, building communities, the ups and downs of running your own creative practice and how to grow your business. And we have a laugh too.   Presented by Justyna Green Music and production by James Gre

Anna Murray and Grace Winteringham are founders of Patternity - a ‘conscious creative organisation’ which works with pattern to inspire more curious, collaborative and connected ways of living. In our conversation, you'll discover Patternity's origins as an image archive and find out more about Anna's and Grace's pre-Patternity days in art direction and pattern design. What will truly inspire though, is how the company has evolved over the years together with its founders' philosophies, ways of perceiving the world and noticing patterns not only in the visual sense but also in our behaviours, thoughts and even spirituality.   Presented by Justyna Green Music and production by James Green

Sam Jacob is principal of Sam Jacob Studio for architecture and design, also known to many as previously the founding director of FAT Architecture. In our conversation, we discuss Sam's education and varied approaches to architecture, his work at the nexus of art and architecture, the inspiration and design process behind the newly opened London's Cartoon Museum and the remodelling of the V&A’s Cromwell Road entrance.   Presented by Justyna Green Music and production by James Green

Camille Walala is an artist and designer, expressing joy and happiness through vibrant colour and bold pattern. Known for her bold style, Camille works on projects ranging from large installations to urban landscapes and 3D items. In our conversation, Camille tells me about her early inspirations, her first discovery of the Memphis Movement and thoughts on arts education. She also openly shares with me the story of her career path, which creatives at every stage of their practice will find encouraging.  Presented by Justyna Green Music and production by James Green

Adam Nathaniel Furman is the last guest of the second season of the Justyna Green podcast. We meet at his apartment in the vicinity of Regent's Park and before we start our recording, Furman explains that he only recently moved in, hence the place is still looking a bit bare. It does so by his standards, but most of us would find it generously decorated, with Furman’s sculptures, prototypes, posters and mugs scattered throughout the rooms and shelves filled with design and architecture books. In our conversation, we discuss Furman’s multicultural upbringing and its effects on his notions of identity. We dive into the relationship between maximalist and minimalist styles and their connections to Calvinism and Catholicism. Furman also explains the differences between the Zen methodology and Shintoism and how these spiritual practices inform Japan's creative culture. A prolific architecture commentator and designer, Furman ends our conversation with an insight into his current projects and how he translates the notion of objects telling stories, into his practice.   Presented and produced by Justyna Green Music by James Green  

“Are you a dancer” is the question that Alistair Spalding gets asked the most. Understandably so, as he runs London’s most successful and internationally renowned dance theatre – Sadler's Wells.  In our conversation, we discuss communicating ideas through movement, the rock-concert-like creations from Hofesh Schechter and Akram Khan’s tender stories of belonging and identity as well as Sadler's Wells collaborations with creatives such as sculptor Antony Gormley, fashion designer Hussein Chalayan, musician Jamie XX, and artist Olafur Eliasson.   Presented and produced by Justyna Green Music by James Green  

Max Cooper is an electronica and techno music producer. He recently released the remixes of his 2018 album One Hundred Billion Sparks and is working on his forthcoming project for the Barbican Centre, Yearning for the Infinite. You’ll enjoy our discussion whether you’re an electronic music fan or not, as for Cooper music is almost a by-product of his lifelong interests in maths, science and computational biology. His multidisciplinary approach led him to a long-term collaboration with the Architecture Social Club, a project with Zaha Hadid Architects. Throughout our conversation, we discuss science, maths, and philosophy and how these disciplines inform Cooper's work, enabling him to create multisensory, immersive experiences, which explore concepts such as hope, identity, singularity or indeed infinity.   Presented by Justyna Green Production and music by James Green  

Ben Branson is on a mission to change the way the world drinks. He’s the founder and CEO of Seedlip - a nature company producing distilled, non-alcoholic spirits. In our conversation, he shares with me his fascination with herbs and biodiversity, the increasing need for high-quality non-alcoholic spirits, coping with a rapidly growing business and building a laboratory in a 19th-century barn on his farm.   Presented by Justyna Green Production and music by James Green

Suzanne Livingston is the curator of the Barbican Centre’s new exhibition “AI: More Than Human” which explores our relationship with Artificial Intelligence. In our conversation, we discuss the 90's fascination with cybernetic culture, AI's origins in the Middle Ages and its Golden Age in the 19th and 20th centuries. We also try to expand our thinking on the burning philosophical question of what it means to be human. Presented by Justyna Green Production and music by James Green    

It was the opening of DePadova’s first branded space in the UK—in London’s Chelsea—that brought me and Lissoni together for what I thought will be a conversation about furniture, architecture, his latest projects, and new collections. Instead, our discussion quickly started to revolve around concepts such as humanism and failure.  Lissoni quotes doubt, curiosity and passion as the key qualities of his practice. When asked about his most memorable projects he promptly responds that he doesn’t have any, as he is never happy with the final result. Instead, he’s driven by mistakes and the constant refinement of the architectural and design solutions. He likens himself to a wild animal, whose senses tell him immediately when a piece of work is aesthetically ‘dangerous’. That sensibility led him to design buildings such as The Middle House and Casa Fantini and objects for the likes of Alessi, Boffi, B&B, Flos, Kartell and Salvatori among others. As our conversation nears the end, we touch on the subject of luxury and its meaning. Unfortunately, according to Lissoni, luxury has become vulgarised, associated with excessive wealth and flashy material possessions. Whilst for him – he’s a Milanese man after all – luxury is hidden in everyday qualities of life, good taste and his all-time favourite – curiosity.   Presented by Justyna Green Production and music by James Green