Arup

Stephen Philips leads the award winning Product Design team at Arup in London.

As one of the world’s leading independent multi-disciplinary design and engineering firms, Arup was founded in 1946. They have collaborated with some of the world’s most innovative architects and planners on projects such as Sydney Opera House, The Pompidou Centre in Paris and the Beijing National Stadium.

Stephen studied Product Design at Brunel University between 1989 and 1992 and is an Industrial designer with over 25 years of experience in people-centred design. He joined Arup in 2008 and has designed a family of new visual display products for London’s transport network, low energy high performance lighting ranges for the leading lighting manufacturers and has realised projects that re-use waste as a resource for successful, functional and desirable products. He has designed a number of building technology and transportation products and several award winning furniture systems.

He has authored a book called ‘The Industrial Resolution’, the result of global research into closed loop product design, manufacturing and re-use in the field of products, buildings, technology, furniture, vehicles and packaging.