Studio
Renowned for its innovative approach, Foster + Partners Industrial Design creates bespoke solutions and unique crafted products for global clients – from furniture, lighting, building components, and transportation. Driven by principles of sustainability, material innovation and advanced manufacturing techniques, the team combines rigorous research with ‘design by making’ ethos to deliver durable and functional designs.
Approach
Our studio operates at the threshold of architecture and design. In any given space or situation, we create the touchpoints, the moments of interaction, the places where a design concept becomes a sensory experience. Our rational, problem-solving approach precisely combines an engineer’s technical proficiency with hands-on making and modelling – a synthesis of manufacture and craft.
Research & Insights
Foster + Partners Industrial Design occupies a unique position, working both autonomously and in symbiosis with the global architectural practice. Projects are frequently inspired and informed by insights from the architectural world, and we in turn shape the ways in which that world is experienced. Through a process of research, observation, and the physical act of making, we find innovative and aesthetic design solutions to problems of all sizes and levels of complexity.
Sustainability
At Foster + Partners Industrial Design, we believe in long-term, big picture thinking. Our team of dedicated in-house experts ensures sustainable materials, low-impact production and circular thinking are integral to our design process. From the outset, we maintain supply-chain transparency and actively support LCA and EPD documentation.
Expertise
We are a team of experienced designers with wide-ranging proficiencies and expansive knowledge of manufacturing and materials. Our designers are supported by Foster + Partners’ dedicated researchers, material specialists, lighting designers and engineers, with state-of-the art facilities including 3D print labs, VR and photography studios.
Collaboration
We work with clients all over the world to develop new products for commercial manufacture, and we design products and systems in response to the specific needs of Foster + Partners’ architectural projects. Whether it is a long-term collaboration with a leading global manufacturer or a flagship product for a pioneering start-up, our team relishes the opportunity to take on new challenges.