Tim Parsons

Tim Parsons



Biography		Tim Parsons is a product designer and a writer and lecturer on matters 'design'. He explores a broad range of approaches, believing a project's direction should be shaped by a search for the definitive in relation to specific conditions, rather than by applying a pre-conceived style. Mixing influences from craft and industrial design, his projects examine notions of familiarity, functionality and the quality of materials and processes, producing simple, durable objects. Tim was brought up in Wiltshire, England and studied industrial design in Bournemouth and Teesside before attending the Royal College of Art in London from 1998 – 2000. Upon completion of the Design Products course he began selling his own products to London retailers and was commissioned to undertake a research project for the Helen Hamlyn Research Centre, a centre for the promotion of socially inclusive design based at the Royal College of Art. In 2002 he moved to Manchester where he taught three dimensional design at Manchester Metropolitan University before returning to London in 2007 to teach at Camberwell College of Arts. Tim has collaborated on design projects with internationally renowned designers such as Matali Crasset and Vogt & Weizenegger and has led teaching workshops in France, Italy, Sweden and Poland. He has contributed regularly to the British design press reviewing exhibitions and writing features for Blueprint magazine and has recently written on design for Phaidon books. He has established the manufacture of his products through Innermost Ltd, A.R.Wentworth, Thorsten Van Elten and The Berlin Institute for the Blind and his work has been exhibited widely including at The Design Museum, London.