Cornwall Design Forum

Paul Davies

Chair

Paul started his career as a psychologist and has successfully combined his skills with design training to create solutions that persuade, convince and entertain. Paul has worked with international organisations such as Barclays Bank, GE Healthcare, Panasonic, Pentel, UBS Investment Bank and Oxford University as well as ambassadors of Cornish business such as Pendennis Worldclass Superyachts, Cornwall College and The Duchy of Cornwall.

Mike Hawes

Vice Chair

Michael is a Landscape Architect with experience in the United Kingdom, Holland and Australia. Having studied in Leeds, his experience includes design for public realm, corporate and business environments, campus and educational establishments, urban regeneration, town centre enhancement schemes and design strategies.

Projects include: Seagrove Estate in Australia (a sustainable development landscape awarded the UDIA Award of Excellence), the promotional landscapes for the launch of the BMW Mini at Cowley in Oxford and involvement in the design and development of the external environments for Wembley Stadium and the National Welsh Assembly building in Cardiff.

Currently working at Mor, Michael continues to work on Landscape Architectural and Public Art projects throughout the UK and Holland. He has a particular interest in the provision of recreation, play and educational environments. Michael believes strongly in the importance of stakeholder involvement throughout the design, fabrication and installation process as a catalyst for environmental and social sustainability, and the longevity of the habitable environment.

Anna Hart

Committee member

Anna Hart is an interior and furniture designer who runs her own design studio and is director of award winning furniture brand MARK. Anna relocated to Cornwall having worked in London for clients such as the BBC and BP. In 2004 she joined Absolute Design as lead designer where she was responsible for high-profile projects such as Jamie Oliver's Fifteen Cornwall and the Hotel at Watergate Bay.

Establishing her own studio in 2007, Anna has continued to build a reputation for creating unique, striking interiors. MARK has been a collaboration between Anna and John Miller, Director of Design at University College Falmouth and a respected figure in the furniture world. Together they have brought together a team of acclaimed designers and local manufacturers to create a new and exciting range of furniture and lighting products.

Paul Siodmok

Treasurer

Paul founded the specialist CAD (Computer Aided Design) consultancy Integer Solutions in 2002. His client portfolio includes: Aston Martin Lagonda, Bentley Motors, Samsung Design Europe and Design Bridge Structure.

Prior to this Paul has held positions as Design Manager and New Business Director at product and automotive design consultancies in the UK. With a first class honours in Industrial Design, he is also a graduate from Durham University Business School.

Paul has lectured in higher education and worked as a Senior Research Fellow in Medical Design at the University of Northumbria, where he was responsible for a EPSRC and ERDF funded research team.

Paul has been invited to speak internationally on CAD is widley recognised as an Alias Studio expert and has lived and worked in Hong Kong and Australia. Paul has been involved in creating highly complex integrated CAD solutions for world class clients with particular emphasis on ensuring production viability whilst maintaining the highest design integrity.

Paul is based in Newquay Cornwall.

Kathryn Tyler

Committee member

After graduating from Falmouth College of Arts in 2000, Kathryn went on to lead interior projects for Absolute in Cornwall and subsequently Curious Associates in London. She founded Linea Studio in 2004 following a commission to design the interiors of a multi-million pound luxury development and has since completed a variety of commercial schemes from bars, restaurants and hotels to arts spaces and offices throughout the UK.

Kathryn’s clients includes Gylly Beach Cafe, The Falmouth Townhouse Hotel, the Hub St Ives, Truro High School, Portscatho Harbour Club and Trevose Golf Club. She has also worked in partnership on projects for University College Falmouth, Glaxo Smith Kline, Chichester Cathedral and the charities Scope, RSPB and Shelterbox.

Considered design principles and a sustainable ethos underscore Kathryn’s practice, often with a nod towards her love for Scandinavian design, modernist architecture and mid-century furniture.

Mark Gregory

Committee member

Mark grew up in the southeast, studied at the Cheltenham Landscape School and set up in Cornwall straight from college on the back of winning a national design competition for the International Garden Festival in Liverpool in 1984. Mark's 26 years of experience cover a broad range of projects within the public, private and voluntary sectors working with all of the former Cornish districts, South Hams, West, East and North Devon district councils and Truro, Ottery St Mary, Launceston and Sidmouth town councils; other clients include Tesco, Somerfield, Midas, Devington, South West Water, Cornwall Highways and the National Trust.

Mark provides planning assistance and acts as an expert witness on landscape and visual issues at planning inquiries. Mark has an office in the centre of Truro having recently returned from a sabbatical in Tours, France where he was on the "comité de pilotage" for the "parcs et jardins" department for a number of public realm projects and was the English content director for C.A.C.K. Radio, part of Radio Beton.

Matt Hollands

Committee member

Born and raised in Cornwall, Matt wanted to get involved with the Cornwall design Forum to combine his passions for Cornwall and design in order to help promote the quality of designers and innovative design work Cornwall produces to a wider audience.

Matt currently works for South West Marketing, PR and design agency, MPAD as a graphic and web designer, working with a number of Cornish businesses and organisations such as Cornwall Chamber, St Kitts Herbery and Age Concern.

Sasha Dobrota

Cornwall Council

After graduating from University of Plymouth with a degree in Art History & Visual Arts and a Post Graduate in Teaching, Sasha started her career as the Education & Exhibition Officer at RAMM in Exeter.

Over the last ten years she has managed a variety of major arts projects including Tide & Time, a region wide community arts initiative addressing change in coastal communities for the Arts Council; RIOs Create Your Future Programme which used the creative industries as a launch pad to get people into work; Kerrier District Councils Cultural Programme for Young People and the Heritage Lotterys Parks for People Scheme.

Sasha is currently leading on Cornwall Councils Creative Industry Strategy.

Jono Wardle

Committee member

Jono Wardle is originally from Cornwall and returned in 2004. He was a graphic designer and (occasional) illustrator before becoming an advertising creative director and board director of J Walter Thompson, London. He's also worked as a TV commercials director and creative consultant for television and films, and is a Business Fellow at University College Falmouth.

Andy Harbert

Committee member

Andy trained as an architect, culminating in an MA Architecture (Design and Theory) in 1995.

For the next 10 years he worked across Europe on a range of projects from monster retail and distribution sheds (not selling monsters - just huge), very large scale advertising, to medium sized houses and offices, to the design of smaller items such as a door handle. All projects had the user and the context as key factors in design. Working with people and place. These are also his principles for education; working with people through dialogue and reflection, and never taking anything or anyone for granted. The range of personalities found in the world of architecture and construction created an interesting journey and an amazing learning experience, one he is nearly recovered from.

As of 22 September 2005, not that he is counting, he decided to become a full-time academic at Falmouth accepting the role of Course Leader for BA Spatial Design: Interior and Landscape. He has previously worked as a tutor in Architecture and Interior Design on undergraduate and postgraduate courses, has been a Course Leader for an MA in Interior Design, and taught in Singapore and Hong Kong.

Moving to the full-time position of course leader for the Design Centre MA courses in September 2008, he aims to prove his belief that the potential for design evolution at postgraduate level is firmly routed in disproving the old cliché that you 'cannot teach an old dog new tricks', especially as he heads towards being placed in the old dog category.

Currently Andy is external examiner for Bournemouth University, as well as contributing to the validation of degree courses at other UK institutions. His research interests lie in design that responds to the wider social and geographical notion of peripherality and identity, genius loci, and as an evolution from his own postgraduate studies, design for the heritage and museum sectors.

Sarah Leigh-Wills

Committee Member

Hello, my name is Sarah-Leigh Wills. I am an award winning freelance graphic designer & illustrator based in Cornwall. I specialise in Brand concepts and advertising. I am best recognised for being the UK & Ireland winner of the DAF award 2007.

Lisa Fuller

Committee member

Lisa Fuller is Founder of Fuller Design Consultants specialists in resource efficiency and sustainable design thinking, facilitating socio-cultural transformations within industry and the public sector. The company has a respectable list of clients so far: Barncrest, Ginsters, Roskillys and MPG Books.

Lisa is also studying MA 3D Design at University College Falmouth where she is building upon her expertise in CAD/CAM. Last year she won the ‘Sorrell Foundation Widening Participation Award for Design’ for a design project with school children on the Young Design Programme. Her passion for co-design and user engagement targets real human need. Recently completed design research on the DOTT Cornwall ‘Living Well’ project which encourages and supports social innovation for sustainable living. She is currently working on a second interactive/community project with DOTT Cornwall.

Krystal Fanning

Committee Member

Having graduated from Falmouth University in 2008, Krystal has since been working for Jump Media Design in Penryn.

At Jump Krystal designs for both print & web, working with clients such as Duchy of Cornwall, Highgrove, Furleigh Estate Wine and The Bay Talland.

Previously a member of the CDF, Krystal saw the chance of joining its committee the perfect opportunity to become more involved in promoting design in Cornwall.

Vita Cameron

UCF Student Representative

Originally from Guildford I started studying Graphic Design at University College Falmouth in 2007. Now in my second year I strive to create innovative and articulate design. I represent Falmouth’s dynamic student community that is drawn to Cornwall’s inspirational environment.