David Irwin

David Irwin is a designer from Northern Ireland, born in 1986, who moved to the North East of England to study furniture design. He graduated in Three-Dimensional Design at Northumbria University in 2007, completed a fellowship on the Designers in Residence programme at the university’s School of Design in 2010, and set up his own studio in Newcastle upon Tyne in 2011.

The studio works across furniture, lighting, accessories and textile design, and its approach is described as a search for simplicity, distilling a product to its essentials through the exploration of sustainable materials and manufacturing processes. Pieces are developed with manufacturers and collaborators to be engaging and enduring objects, and the studio documents its output through a regularly updated news section and a newsletter.