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Adrian Westaway Co-founder & Director of Technology and Magic at Special Projects Adrian is an inventor, engineer and experience designer on a mission to make the human-technology interaction meaningful and delightful. As co-founder of Special Projects he harnesses technology, inclusive research and magic thinking to devise design propositions that feel familiar yet wondrous. A self-taught magician since the age of 11 and full member of the Magic Circle, he relentlessly pursues his conviction that “designers should use magic thinking and try to introduce surprise, delight and fuzzy feeling in the things they create.” After becoming the first ever James Dyson Fellow in 2007, and a Fellow of the Royal Commission of 1851, in 2010, for his work on interactive lighting systems, Adrian built a playground in Peru, had whisky with Derren Brown as a student in Bristol, and tried to make his teachers disappear. His contagious passion for magic and engineering made him a beloved tutor and lecturer in Design & Innovation at Queen Mary University and the Royal College of Art, in London and a visiting faculty member at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design. There he teaches ‘Magic and Design’, a nomadic workshop where students are introduced to methods of using design and technology to create enchanted products and experiences.

Digital Designer and Web Developer working on projects with a focus on functional Design with plenty of personality and playful interaction.

Elisa is a Milan-born fashion/design writer, digital content creator and Editor In Chief/co-founder of Sali e Tabacchi Journal. She moved to London in September 2014 for a foundation year at Condè Nast College of Fashion and Design. Since then, she has interned at J.J. Martin's LaDoubleJ.com, Nowness, British Vogue and Wallpaper* Magazine, has been published by British Vogue and Wallpaper* Magazine and contributes to Corriere Della Sera's Design Magazine, Living. She has now graduated Fashion Journalism at London College of Fashion and collaborating with creatives across different countries.

Hi, I'm Emile.