Creative Director, From Now On
Daniel Charny is a creative director, curator and educator with an enquiring mind and an entrepreneurial streak. He is co-founder of the creative consultancy From Now On, where clients include Dartington Hall, the Design Museum, Google, Heatherwick Studio, Nesta and U+I. His most recent initiative is the creative education think-and-do-tank FixEd.
Charny is best known as curator of the influential exhibition Power of Making at the V&A Museum, which drove him to found the award-winning learning programme Fixperts, now taught in universities and schools worldwide. Other projects include The Aram Gallery, The British Council’s Maker Library Network and the Central Research Laboratory accelerator.
Charny is active internationally as a speaker and expert advisor, advocating his vision of design, creativity and making as essential tools to unlock a better future. He has 25 years’ experience teaching design and innovating learning formats in world leading higher education institutes. Charny is a Professor of Design at Kingston School of Art Centre for Research Through Design.
How can design embrace collaboration with consumers to create personalised products at a mass scale? What opportunities do digitised design, industrial customisation and automated manufacturing allow designers and brands who want to close the gap between the design and its end user. What impact does this have for the future of who designs and how?
