Brian Stephens Biography

From their beginnings in Co Wicklow in 1984 Design Partners have become market and thought leaders with studios in Eindhoven San Francisco and a new expanded space in Bray. Their work is in the collection at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and ranges from sleek consumer goods to lifesaving medical devices. Founder and chief executive Brian Stephens talks about how design is at the heart of everything.
“I learned about architecture when I was a kid but I was always more interested in the things inside the buildings. When someone told me you could get a job designing those things I couldn’t believe my luck. Many industrial designers have a similar story. I studied in the UK and then worked at GK Design in Tokyo for two years.
I set up Design Partners with David Morgan just as the Kilkenny Design Workshops was closing – we saw an opportunity. We had to learn how to do many things like setting up a model-making workshop so we evolved in a different way. This makes us different to other firms internationally; we work more intuitively and a lot faster. Speed is very important in this world – that and having an international focus.

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