Ian Macintyre
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With a background in product design and applied art, Ian employs a mix of industrial design and craft skills to his work – producing installations, studio editions and developing shapes, materials and techniques for industry. He was highlighted by the Crafts Council in 2008 as being “amongst some of the most promising makers who are applying their training and skills in new and exciting ways”.

In 2006 Ian gained a first class degree in Three Dimensional Design from Manchester Metropolitan University. In 2010 he received an MA in Applied Art from the Royal College of Art, London. He is a product designer, visiting lecturer to Kingston University and the Royal College of Art and a founding member of Studio Manifold who are based in Hackney, East London. From 2012 onwards, Ian has been a BA ceramics lecturer at Havering College, London.

In 2015 Ian was awarded the Jerwood Makers Commission at the Jerwood Makers Open, which is a major initiative in the Jerwood Visual Arts programme and recognises rising stars in the world of applied arts.

Selected projects include:

‘Candela’ for the London Design Festival at the Victoria and Albert Museum,

Mediums 1 for ‘Wrong for Hay’

Series One Pottery for ‘Another Country’

Helen Hamlyn Centre and Croatian British Council, Zagreb, Croatia – invited to Zagreb as a creative team leader to steer a series of inclusive design workshops for sheltered manufacturing devised by RCA senior research fellow Julia Cassim. The project won the Croatian Designers Association Grand Prix at D (Design) Day.

Designed ‘Slush Cast Bowl’ – an edition of the bowl was commissioned by 10 Downing Street as a gift to each world leader at the G20 summit in London, 2009.

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