Sam Gwilt
Industrial Designer
London, United Kingdom
Industrial Designer
London, United Kingdom
Q & A
What is your design philosophy?
Look after the details, and the design will look after itself. I believe that it's important to not only have an overall solid design solution, but also solid and refined details. I like to be playful in my designs, whilst still remaining minimal and contemporary - my ultimate goal is to create an in-joke with everyone who interacts with the product.
What led you to become a designer?
I genuinely feel as though I have a constant need to create. Whether it was colouring crayons as a child, or building prototypes as an adult, creating something that didn't exist before really inspires me. One side of my family are engineers, and the other side are artists. I feel like design is the perfect combination of the two, and growing up in that environment gave me the foundations of my design education.
If you weren't a designer, what would you be?
I had an idea in university to turn a rundown urban warehouse into a coffee house and clothing store. A group of us did the branding, fashion design, and interior design, and the branding work is still in my design portfolio to this day. I think without design, I'd love to own and run a coffee shop with a strong community of customers with a first name basis.
I genuinely feel like I have a constant need to create.