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.

Nicole Chui is a freelance embroidery artist and designer based in Hackney. Her embroidery art is described as messy, brash, and disruptive. She has worked with the likes of Converse, Nike, Gal-dem and Parlophone. In 2019, she was named one of the future faces under 25 by the Evening Standard. 

Emmanuelle is a Swiss-Canadian animation director and illustrator living in London. She studied animation at the world renown Gobelins school in Paris. She's been working for international client since 2004, and published a few illustrated books too.

Jamain Gordon was born in 1995, in Georgetown, Guyana, where he lived until he was 11. Then moved to London and started school here where he studied Arts and Design plus photography. After college he decided to move on to university to study BA (Hons) Photography at University for the Creative Arts, and for his most recent project was a book publication. He now workｓ as a freelance photographer. 

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