Angharad Summers is a product and furniture designer from New Zealand currently based in Melbourne, Australia. Her designs aim to be interesting, sustainable and non-egocentric pieces. She wants to design pieces that are functional and/or thought-provoking in order to provide people with something that is new, yet necessary.

Non-egocentric design is design which is selfless and altruistic. It is about something bigger than the designer and their desire to create something beautiful. It can come in the form of a functional, useful object which is solving a problem or it can come in the form of an object which isn't necessarily functional but which makes a statement and presents a wider issue for people to discuss.

She has been named one of the final 30 for the Australian Design Review’s inaugural 30 Under 30 design program, a finalist for Australia’s Next Top Designer and has recently made the shortlist for the IDEA Awards in the Object, Furniture and Lighting - Professional category and the Maker of the Year Awards in the Recycled and Rescued category. She also co-organised Pop ‘round: one person’s junk is another person’s chair, a furniture exhibition for Melbourne Design Week 2023. Although she focusses on furniture design Summers also pursues other design projects including graphic and product design.

Her freelance services are also available via Twine: https://www.twine.fm/angharadsummers.

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