We are delighted to have been asked to do some mentoring this spring for final year students on the product design course at Istituto Marangoni London. These projects will be exhibited later in September at the Design Museum London.
After many years of development with Lufthansa, we are thrilled to welcome the first Allegris A350 cabin!
The Allegris Business class cabin experience is rooted in a year-long, multi-faceted co-creation programme of primary research and ideation. The concept of choice is a central theme in the development of the new Business class cabin and seat environment. Informed by a detailed understanding of new and emerging user needs, we developed several spatial scenarios that deliver truly unique and bespoke functional variety. From calm spaces to focus spaces, spaces for parents and couples, spaces for those seeking quiet, and spaces for the extra-tall passenger.
Congratulations to the whole team!
Last night, Pearson Lloyd was awarded ‘Designer of the year 2023’ by Dezeen, the planet’s most influential architecture and design website. Thank you to the judges for recognising the work we do and its role in our rapidly changing world.
Since starting out in 1997, we have consistently pursued projects that excite us — making choices based more on interest than sector. A quarter-century of avoiding specialisation has, we believe, been worthwhile: resulting in insights into the social, economic and environmental challenges affecting every aspect of life that still energise us to this day. And, more importantly, that remind us of a designer’s responsibility and power to affect change.
Regardless of whether the focus is the public realm or the commercial sector, design is always a social act. As designers we need to listen to the world around us — it is how we discover opportunities for improving lives. We hold a privileged position and are immensely thankful to the people who allow us to occupy it: our invaluable team, past and present, who work with us to decode vast complexities, our ambitious and trusting clients who enable us to develop our ideas so that they might have a positive impact at scale, and our colleagues in the industry who collectively drive us forward.
To make any difference in our messy, fragile and inspiring world, we designers have to become more ambitious in challenging the status quo. It is no longer enough to simply shape what is made — we must use our influence to change how things are made. Collectively we have the means to transform industry to the benefit of both nature and humanity.
Pearson Lloyd has been shortlisted for the Dezeen Designers of the Year Award!
The Designers of the Year award rewards the best emerging and established talent across architecture, interiors and design, and recognises those whose innovative work has made a notable impact on the industry.
We are honoured to be shortlisted alongside Paul Cocksedge Studio, Karlssonwilker, Marjan Van Abel and Stephen Burks. Congratulations to all shortlisted studios!
The winner will be announced on 28 November.
In the past few months at Clerkenwell Design Week and NeoCon we previewed and launched CoLab, our new furniture system for next generation learning and work. We were pleased that the architecture and design community took great interest in this collection that has resulted from primary research into global pedagogy trends.
It was a bonus to win two Best of NeoCon 23 Awards: Gold for Education Solutions and Silver for Collections for Collaboration.
Jurors noted, “In a market where we’ve seen everything, CoLab provides real opportunities for comfortable and intuitive interaction. There are so many thoughtful details built into the design, including integrated standing height tables that double as lecterns, power modules, spacing between cushions to allow spills to pass through, flexibility in reconfiguration, sustainable components that can be reused and recycled, and durable options that hold up in high-use environments.”