Zaha Hadid
Architecture and Design

Marcus is editor of architecture and design blog dezeen.com and author of Twenty-First Century Design (Carlton Books). In 2003 he founded icon magazine, which he edited until November last year. Marcus has won numerous awards including Journalist of the Year (2002) and Architectural Journalist of the Year (2004).

Josephine Gaffikin is Communications Manager at the Design Museum responsible for the museum’s website and marketing. After graduating, Josephine was a political lobbyist for all sorts of nefarious causes, before deciding it was more important to promote something she's passionate about. She moved to a position at the National Gallery and then the Crafts Council before securing her current role at the Design Museum. When not putting design on the agenda she can be found streamlining her life, dancing to reggae, eating and cycling.

Amelia Webb has been Communications Manager at the Design Museum, looking after press and media relations, since January 2006. Before joining the museum she worked in book publishing PR, most recently at Thames & Hudson where she promoted style and design books. Amelia likes Stig Lindberg, 1950’s Ercol furniture, and her favourite building is the Royal Festival Hall.

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Lynda Relph-Knight has been editor of Design Week since 1989. Before taking up that role on the world’s only weekly design magazine, she was a freelance journalist specialising in the built environment and design. In that guise, she was a consultant to both Design Week and Building magazine and edited Designing, the Design Council’s termly magazine for secondary schools. Other regular freelance outlets included Design magazine, Designers Journal, Interior Design, Building Design and New Scientist.

Previous full-time jobs include editor of The Architect (a now-defunct monthly) and features editor on architectural weekly Building Design.

In 2001 Lynda received an honorary MA from the Surrey Institute of Art & Design and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. This month she becomes an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Art.

Edwin Heathcote is an architect and writer living and working in London. He is the architecture critic of the Financial Times and author and editor of a dozen books on architecture and design including London Caffs, Furniture and Architecture and Contemporary Church Architecture.

He is also a founder of door handle and lighting company ize and art and design manufacturer derive.

Deyan Sudjic is Director of the Design Museum in London. Founded in 1989, the Design Museum is the UK’s cultural champion of design and wins international acclaim for exhibitions of modern design history and contemporary design.

Before joining the Design Museum in August 2006, Deyan was Dean of the Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design at Kingston University, visiting professor at the Royal College of Art and the Academy of Applied Art in Vienna, and the Observer newspaper’s design and architecture writer. He was Director of Glasgow 1999, UK City of Architecture, and in 2002 was Director of the Venice Architecture Biennale. From 2000 to 2004 he was Editor of Domus, and Founding Editor of Blueprint magazine from 1983 to 1996. Deyan has published many books on design and architecture.

In 2004 Deyan was awarded the Bicentenary Medal of the Royal Society of Arts for the promotion of design, and was made an honorary fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects. He was made an OBE in 2000.

Tony joined Wallpaper* as Creative Director in January 2003.

Prior to Wallpaper*, he had been Art Director at Condé Nast's flagship male lifestyle title, British GQ Magazine for six years. During that period he also acted as a creative consultant on other International Condé Nast titles and was twice named Art Director of the Year in the prestigious Periodical Publishers Association Awards.

Prior to joining Condé Nast, Tony was Art Editor of The Sunday Times Magazine.

Since joining Wallpaper*, Tony has overseen a highly respected re-design in 2003, which included creating a new and unique font for the magazine and attracting some of the world's most exciting and talented photographers and illustrators.

Tony has also contributed to the extension of the Wallpaper* design principles and helped to take them onto new platforms including exhibitions, websites and the highly successful series of pocket City Guides published in conjunction with Phaidon press.

In March this year, Tony was invited to take the unusual step from being Creative Director to Editor-in-Chief.

Kieran is the editor designate of the Architects’ Journal. He was the launch deputy editor of Icon magazine in 2003, and its principal architecture critic for three and a half years. He is also the former deputy editor of Building Design and World Architecture magazines.

His work has appeared in The Guardian and Independent newspapers, Architects Journal, Art Review, Wallpaper, Modern Painters, Baumeister (Germany), A+V (Spain), The Architects Newspaper (USA), Dwell (USA), Forum AID (Sweden), Rum (Sweden) and a variety of other journals and magazines.

He has taught design and history and theory of architecture at several architecture schools in London (including Greenwich, Kingston and London Metropolitan), and is currently the Masters thesis coordinator at Greenwich University. He has been an invited critic in every school of architecture in London, as well as schools nationally and internationally. He has also taught on the Design Products course at the Royal College of Art.

He was the co-author of the book Architects Today (Laurence King 2004) and the author of New London Interiors (Merrell 2004). Kieran is also the author of a major forthcoming book on emerging architectural culture, to be published by Laurence King in early 2008.

Tom Dyckhoff is architecture critic of The Times. He studied at Oxford University and University College London, before working for the Prince of Wales's Institute of Architecture, the RIBA and The Guardian. He writes and broadcasts on architecture, design and the built environment for TV, radio and various magazines, is reporter on architecture and design for BBC2’s The Culture Show, and regularly teaches urban and architectural history. In his spare time he likes dawdling.

&made, the South-London Design Studio, have worked on a variety of projects that that illustrate social, cultural and environmental dialogues through their products. Their collection, ‘Climatised Objects’, demonstrate their conscious and ethical approach in their work. They were recently invited to exhibit by the Design Museum and British Council at ‘Great Brits: Ingenious Therapies’, a showcase of the next generation of British Design held at the Paul Smith Headquarters, Milan.

Remi/Rough was born in South London in 1971. He is essentially a graffiti writer, although that description really doesn't paint the entire picture anymore. He is also an artist, designer, musician and television presenter. Having put 20 years into developing his style and the UK scene. He has exhibited his artwork in Perth, Hamburg, Paris, Strasbourg, Tokyo, Hong Kong, New York, Los Angeles, Edinburgh and London.

Remi's work has been sought after by companies such as; Red Bull, Nike, Ministry Of Sound, Kickers and even Her Majesty's Foreign Office. He still lives and works in South London with his partner and daughter.

Henrietta Thompson is a journalist, author and curator, based in London and Barcelona.

With experience in every aspect of design publishing from fashion to engineering, blogs to books, Henrietta’s roles have included Deputy Editor and then Editor at Large at Blueprint, Technology Editor at Dazed & Confused, Editor at Winkreative, Editor at Phaidon, and Contributing Editor at Marmalade and Citizen K.

As well as the above titles, Henrietta now writes regularly about architecture, design and technology for Arena, Business Life, the Independent on Sunday, Monocle and Wallpaper*. As a Curator her exhibitions include 100% Norway (various venues, 2006 and 2007) and Hearwear, (V&A, 2005). Henrietta is author of Phone Book, the first book to be published internationally about mobile phone culture and design, and Simply Contemporary, an interior design title written in conjunction with photographer Solvi Dos Santos. Both books are published by Thames & Hudson. Henrietta also consults on design and trends internationally for clients including Lenovo and Motorola.

Rowan Moore was appointed Director of the Architecture Foundation in 2002. He is also architecture critic of the Evening Standard.

He was formerly editor of Blueprint. He curated Vertigo, an exhibition for Glasgow 1999, and the Denys Lasdun exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1997.

He commissioned Zaha Hadid's Blueprint Pavilion, 1995. He has written books on Tate Modern, the New Art Gallery Walsall, and other subjects.

He was a founding partner of Zombory-Moldovan Moore architects.

The Serpentine Gallery, established as a Gallery in 1970, is sited in Kensington Gardens and is one of London’s best-loved galleries for modern and contemporary art. Its Exhibition, Architecture, Education and Public Programmes attract approximately 800,000 visitors a year and admission is free.

The Serpentine Gallery Photograph © 2007 John Offenbach

Simone Sagi is exhibitions and press officer at The Architectural Association, London.

Since graduating from The University of Warwick Simone has worked for architectural communication companies including Hayes Davidson and in galleries including The Mead Gallery, Warwick and The Discovery Gallery, London. Since commencing her current role in 2004 she has co-produced over 60 exhibitions for leading architects and artists including Zaha Hadid, Lacaton Vassal, Klein Dytham, Helene Binet and Mike Smith Studio.

Simone also contributes to Aarchitecture and was guest editor for London Architecture Diary in July 2006.

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Simon Armstrong is buyer and Head Of Retail for the Design Museum Shop in London. Addicted to book collecting and second hand vinyl, he can be found selling design books and objects through the day and playing records for Friends + Family @ Cargo by night. He reads 52 books a year, writes 2000 words a week (not enough really) and is wondering what Zaha Hadid thinks about the work of Delta www.deltainc.nl

designer: Mr Bic, because he made the three basic life essentials function properly: the pen, the razor and the cigarette lighter

authors: Auster, Bulgakov, Kafka, Cheever

song: Archie Whitewater – Cross Country

cake: Battenberg

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While considering being a Sports Scientist, but still poking her nose in to the worlds of Fashion Design, PR and Freelance Teaching, Komal decided that education and the design industries were an all together more fertile and certainly exciting grounds for exploration.

Target No.1 in Komal's career was realised in 2004 when she joined the Design Museum where her many mini-missions began with the Education Team. When Komal is not working on Out of Hours projects with Primary School children, facilitating workshops, designing Sunday Kids Activities...phew, you'll find her cycling around London, dreaming of her next fix of masala chai in Rishikesh or being bowled over by her recent discovery of Indian Classical Music by masters Pandit Zakir Hussain and Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia.

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