Team of Celebrated Designers Launch Industrial Design Studio Heirloom
Founded by Jack Godfrey Wood, Harc Lee, Tate Sager, and Andrew Furner, Heirloom is already working on major design initiatives for leading global brands
London, UK (April 2, 2024) – Today, Jack Godfrey Wood, Harc Lee, Tate Sager, and Andrew Furner officially launched Heirloom, a studio of celebrated designers united by a belief that the key to developing transformative medical, consumer, and digital products is ingenious design driven by experience, empathy, and joy. The name Heirloom is an embodiment of this mission: that every new product should be created with ‘heirloom-quality’, delivering engaging, inspiring design of uncommon, enduring resonance.
First founded in 2022 and building a team based across London, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Tokyo, the boutique consultancy brings together a team of multidisciplinary designers and former leadership of some of the world's most notable studios including Pentagram, fuseproject, Toogood, Marc Newson, and Fantasy. Led by industry figures including Jack Godfrey Wood, former leader of Native’s San Francisco studio and Harc Lee, an acclaimed figure known for his work at Samsung, Yoto, and Pentagram, and Jan Rose, the Creative Director of TOOGOOD, in this early phase Heirloom is already working on major design initiatives for leading global brands.
“Heirloom was founded out of a shared, lifelong belief that all objects and experiences should be designed as if they will become heirlooms, regardless of category or pricepoint. Harc Lee, Tate Sager, Andy Furner and I came together around this commitment, and have steadily built a team of top-rate design leaders to do just that. Heirloom is centered around a love of the work, and our aim was to create a team of the smallest number of people you'd need to produce something great – something whole. In the time we've been together I've been blown away by the quality, joy and invention of our work and the synergy with our clients, and we’re so excited to continue to build and bring the work into the world,” noted founder Jack Godfrey Wood.
From consumer technology to medical devices to workplace furniture, and digital futures, Heirloom’s work redefines the boundaries of the possible and expected, delivering bold, joyfully human experiences in areas where humanity is most vital. Recognized by clients and contemporaries for their ingenuity, thoughtfulness, and poise, Heirloom’s practice spans multiple markets, including healthcare design, where their work prioritizes patient-advocacy, dignity, and error-reduction, within tight cost constraints; audio design and consumer technology, where they are practiced in evolving iconic expressions of new technologies that unlock new audiences; workplace and lifestyle design, where they have designed and built sustainable visions for better living, working, and playing; and digital futures, building elevational interfaces for breakthrough digital experiences.
While Heirloom’s current major work is in development, its twelve founding designers have collaborated with everyone from LVMH, Illumina and Knoll, to Google, Aston Martin, and more. Collectively, they have received more than 150 awards including honors from IDSA Best in Show, Cannes Lions Gold, D&AD, Red Dot Best of the Best, iF Gold, and MDEA Gold.
Additional details on new products and projects will follow in the coming months.
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