Rock Galpin
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About
Rock Galpin is an established, award winning Industrial designer, founding the design studio Rock Galpin Limited in 2005 after setting up the design and supply company Studio Orange in 1995.
Galpin is known for his close working relationships with his clients, his energy, creativity and passion in his love and drive for achieving rewarding and highly successful creative work for his clients.
Clients have commented of Galpin: 'strong and inventive work' Federico Busnelli (B&B Italia); 'designs of real integrity of form' Karim Rashid (Industrial Designer & interior architect); 'it was a pleasure working with Rock and the product is great' Jo Willer (Creative Director for Designers Guild); 'he did great work for us…' Andrew Waugh (Waugh Thistleton Architects), '.. designer who strives to break the mould', Dominic Lutyens (Journalist).
These projects include furniture and product designers for clients own brands, furniture design and supply for interior projects, interior designs from bars, restaurants, retail, offices, hotels and private homes, brand origination, graphics and promotion products.
Galpin also teaches part time at Central Saint Martins as an Associate Lecturer on the BA Product Design course and runs his own CSM Artscom short courses in furniture and product design. -
Education
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MA Industrial Design Product DesignCentral Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of The Arts London1988 - 1990
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BA Product Design Product DesignThe University of Wolverhampton1985 - 1988
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Diploma Arts & DesignUniversity College for the Creative Arts at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham, Maidstone and Rochester1983 - 1985
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Experience
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Teaching (Part time): Short Courses in Furniture/Product Design at CSMCentral Saint Martins College Of Art and Design, University of The Arts LondonJan 2007 - Present (17 years 11 months)Rock Galpin has brought his experience as a key Associate Lecturer on the BA Product Design at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design since 1998 to Artscom at CSM by developing and running numerous short and online courses since 2007.
The furniture design and product design related courses are either studio based at Kings Cross Central Saint Martins site or online, where students from anywhere around the world may take part online in a live teaching environment.
Galpin runs a number of different courses, Furniture Design for Beginners, Furniture Design- Intermediate courses, 1, 2 and 3 and London/Barcelona twin city and Online courses.
Here is an example of one:
http://www.arts.ac.uk/csm/courses/short-courses/browse-short-courses/three-dimensional-design/christmas-school/product-design-and-development/furniture-design-christmas/
Email shortcourse@csm.arts.ac.uk and enquire which other courses I run for more information. -
Founder/Creative DirectorRock Galpin LimitedMar 2005 - Present (19 years 9 months)Rock Galpin has established himself as a highly versatile creative designer with over 23 years of experience and a number of awards including The Laurent Perier Design Award 2006. Galpin is working with clients such as Aram, Authentics, Bombay Sapphire (Bacardi Global Brands), Boss, Designers Guild, Heals, Christopher Wray, The British Council, Saatchi & Saatchi, University of the Arts London, Ignite Group, Diageo, Idée, E&Y Co., UDC.
From designing furniture for Zeev Aram (ARAM) graphics/product naming by Alan Fletcher (Pentagram); Furniture designs for Trica Guild at Designers Guild, Presenting as a design expert on UK TV; Drinking glass designs for Bailey's, Diageo for their global advertising campaigns, 'Future of the bathroom 2020' project for KBB; Designing furniture from recycled plastic and straw; Producing furniture collections for our future working environment, thought provoking household products to designing a global travelling exhibition for Saatchi & Saatchi celebrating their 30th year anniversary. -
Associate Lecturer on BA Product DesignCentral Saint Martins, University of The Arts London1996 - Present (28 years)Rock Galpin has established himself as one of the key Associate Lecturers on the highly regarded BA Product Design course at Central Saint Martine College of Art and Design at Kings Cross, London.
He has taught students who under Galpin's tuition have gone on to win numerous awards, commissions including eye ware and clothing for Oakley, furniture for John Lewis and POS products for Tango. Working also with brands such as, Smeg, Camper, Nintendo, BMW, Harley Davidson and Muji. -
Founder/Creative DirectorStudio OrangeSep 1995 - Mar 2005 (9 years 6 months)Studio Orange was a furniture design and supply agency, specialising in the design and supply of own brand furniture product collection to interior designers and architects. Rock Galpin also acted as Creative Director for many of the agencies client base.
The work of Rock Galpin was exhibited around the world in over 40 exhibitions in Tokyo, New York and many cities in Europe (Paris, Milan, London etc), receiving international press coverage and began to develop an international client base.
Projects include:
Poke/Erasmus/SPF15 and Monkey Kingdom
Supplied own brand workstation desks throughout to all of the above four companies, 2003
The Office Group
Supply of own brand workstation desks throughout, 70x
Angel, Islington, London 2003
The Light, Bar & Grill, London E1; 2000 (10,000sq ft)
Furniture design and supply. Over 200 pieces of furniture designed and supplied.
Bombay Sapphire Experience, Vinopolis, London; 2001 (4000 sq ft)
Interior design/design and supply of all furniture and lighting.
The University of the Arts London, Holbon, London; 1998
Commissioned to design and supply student desks throughout many courses for Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design
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Awards
The Laurent Perrier Design Award 2006-finalist
The Laurent Perrier Design Award 2005-winner
Hiddenart Most influential Designer Award 2005-winner
Hiddenart Most successful Business Award 2005-winner
The Ness Furniture Design Award 1996-finalist
The Ness Furniture Design Awards 1996-finalist
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Elsewhere on the Web
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On Coroflot@rockgalpin, member since 2006
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