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Meet the 2D judges
The prestige of any award hangs off two things: the credibility of its judging panel and the awarding body that presents it.
It’s these two things that make the Design Guild Mark, awarded by The Furniture Makers’ Company, the most revered awards programme in the UK design world.
Every year we recruit some of the finest minds and influential people within the interiors industry to judge which pieces meet the criteria of excellence.
With the Design Guild Mark expanding into 2D in its 10th year, it was absolutely essential that we brought together a panel of recognised experts as significant as the judges we have in the furniture category.
The judges that we have recruited – interior designers, academics, specifiers, architects – are highly respected and authorities within the field.
So who are the judges for the new 2D category? Well read on and find out more about them.
Linzi Coppick
Having graduated from Middlesex University Linzi joined cutting edge retail design company Crighton. A chance of a lifetime lead her away to join the lone Sir Terence Conran who was embarking on a gastronomic journey with restaurants in Butlers Wharf and the now infamous Quaglinos. Another opportunity ‘too good to refuse’ came in the guise of co-founding United Designers for seven years producing some highly regarded design projects within the hospitality industry. In 2008, Linzi joined Forme UK to assist in establishing the leisure and lifestyle sector.
Daniel Hopwood
Daniel Hopwood is the president of the British Institute of Interior Design and a judge on the BBC’s amateur design programme The Great Interior Design Challenge along with Sophie Robinson. Daniel graduated with a degree in Architecture and then joined the Prince of Wales Institute of Architecture. He has run his company ‘Studio Hopwood’ for the past 20 years. Previous to his BBC work he had presented and judged the Channel 4 series, ‘Britain’s Best Homes’.
Professor Clare Johnston
Professor Clare Johnston, senior research fellow, is the project leader and ‘Scientist in Charge’ of the ArcInTex European Training Network at the Royal College of Art. Her responsibilities extend over ArcInTex Work Package 3 which focuses on design at the scale of the interior. ArcInTexETN is an initial training network for new PhD students researching and exploring the expressions of sustainable forms of future living through textile thinking in the intersection of Architecture, Fashion Design and Interaction Design. At the Royal College of Art, Clare is the supervisor for five research students.
Natasha Marshall
Natasha Marshall is a designer and founder of Natasha Marshall Ltd – a textile design studio to the global textile, retail and fashion markets. Trained as a textile designer at Glasgow School of Art, Natasha set up her business in 1997. Natasha Marshall Ltd now works with mills around the world and creates collections for a number of clients based throughout the UK and Europe. Natasha is passionate about helping young people start up in business, is on the Princes Trust Scottish Council and a Board member of The Scottish Textile & Leather Association. She is also an active member in the Entrepreneurial Exchange.
Corinne Pringle
Corinne is a qualified interior designer and joined the interiors division of tp bennett as a Director in 2014. Having joined MCM Architecture in 1997 she was appointed as Managing Director in 2003. Here she worked on a variety of award winning projects for Norton Rose, Ernst & Young, Sainsbury’s, Michelin, Prudential, Seagram and Wilde Sapte.Corinne is a member of both the British Council for Offices and CoreNet Global and has sat on the judging panel for The British Council of Offices Corporate Awards.
Peter Thwaites
Peter Thwaites founded London-based fabric and wallpaper design and print studio Rapture & Wright with Rebecca Aird in 2004. Rapture & Wright adapt age old techniques in clever ways to make fabrics and wallpapers for contemporary and classical tastes alike. As an illustrator, Peter has worked around the world for interior designers, creating exotic murals and wall finishes. He is design director at Rapture & Wright.
The application deadline for the 2D category is Friday 2 March 2018.
More information about the Design Guild Mark, including an application form, is available from https://www.furnituremakers.org.uk/excellence/design-guild-mark/