Designspark - Design Consultancy

Led by Mark & Wendy Hales, Designspark have a wealth of experience in delivering highly creative and commercially successful design solutions across a broad range of projects. We help our clients create and develop brands and well designed product ranges that reflect and enhance their brand values. Our work includes design strategy, product and furniture design, and communication design.

We always strive to combine good design with the finest possible craftsmanship, to create products that are both individual and commercially successful. As a result our clients have included premium and luxury brands such as Traditional Arts, British Airways Concorde, Hermes, Rolls-Royce, Conran, Heal’s, Transport for London, the V&A and Nigella Lawson.

As designers we are fortunate enough to have worked with some wonderful craftsmen and women. We always relish the process of understanding their specialism and passion for a particular material or traditional process, then working together to develop new ideas for these craft skills in a contemporary way. There is, we believe, a wonderful energy that comes from the cross fertilisation of ideas which keeps things fresh and exciting.

We are committed to the philosophy behind the Arts & Business Crafted programme and see the nurturing of craft businesses in the UK as essential. It’s by promoting and developing traditional craft processes in a contemporary environment that will ensure British craftsmen and women remain at the forefront of modern design.

Mark Hales is mentoring Miranda McCarthy

Find out more at www.designspark.co.uk