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“Good design is now a key attribute in the industry for both leading and traditional brands. BuyDesign aims to support and transform the industry including many of the traditional, large-scale mid and low-budget brands, manufacturers and retailers, not just the design leading brands, by enabling access to high-quality designs from talented designers on our platform.”
Theo Williams, founder BuyDesign
Product categories
View and discover original ideas and completed works by our designers.
BuyDesign launched March 2023 and since then, we’ve attracted designers from 20 different countries, including the USA, Japan, France, and Italy.
Our talented global network has created over 400 unique products in various categories such as furniture, lighting, accessories, cookware, lifestyle products, patterns, and textiles.
We’ve also launched two Open Calls, and we’re thrilled to have signed 21 product agreements so far.
Furniture
Our Designers are selected for their design credentials, industry experience and professionalism. Click product images to link through to their profiles, add your favourite designers to your online studio and brief designers who have potential.
Featured Designer: Harry Batchelor
I’ve always been interested in construction, drawing and learning some basic carpentry. From this, I was inspired to study Architectural Engineering at university and turned my hand to furniture design.
Featured Designer: Andy Boyce
With over 20 years of experience in the industry, Andy has been designing commercial successes for furniture retailers, brands and manufacturers.
Featured Designer: Taijiro Ishiko
Taijiro Ishiko is a designer / founder of Taijiro Ishiko Design. His design style is “Newtral”, which means creating a new culture by topping a fresh on normal.
Lighting
Our Designers are selected for their design credentials, industry experience and professionalism. Click product images to link through to their profiles, add your favourite designers to your online studio and brief designers who have potential.
Featured Designer: Silvia Ceñal
Silvia Ceñal implements creativity as a tool to design furniture, lighting, and products for people. This is the basis of the “Silvia Ceñal Design Studio,” established in 2015 in the Basque city of San Sebastian. Here, she designs for well-known companies in the furniture sector, including Treku, Ondarreta, and Woud, to name a few.
Decor and Home Accessories
Our Designers are selected for their design credentials, industry experience and professionalism. Click product images to link through to their profiles, add your favourite designers to your online studio and brief designers who have potential.
Featured Designer: Nigel Coates
Nigel Coates is an architect whose work encompasses buildings, furniture, and ideas. As if both driver and conceptual vehicle, his drawing exhibits a characteristically fluid line. His designs are produced by many well-known brands including GTV, Fornasetti, Poltronova, Alessi, and Slamp. His work features in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, FRAC in Orléans, the Tchoban Foundation in Berlin, and M+ in Hong Kong.
Creating your first Brief
Creating a detailed and comprehensive brief is crucial for connecting you with the right designer who can bring your vision to life.
Discover how to create your first Brief with this easy step-by-step guide.
You can create a brief for an individual designer, or brief the whole BuyDesign Studio with an Open Call. If you have any issues or questions, please do not hesitate to contact our team.
Cook and Dine
Our Designers are selected for their design credentials, industry experience and professionalism. Click product images to link through to their profiles, add your favourite designers to your online studio and brief designers who have potential.
Featured Designer: Daniel Rous
Daniel’s an experienced product and furniture designer who’s worked with manufacturers and retailers across UK and Europe. Previously working in Treviso, Italy, his experience of working with skilled crafts in the region shaped his design approach.
Featured Designer: Jon Eliason
Jon Eliason Design Studio is a well-established design company based in Sweden. The company has showed it´s talent by receiving assignments from the most recognized Swedish companies: Ikea, Ahlens, Sagaform, Orrefors Jernverk, Gustavsberg, Vedum, Nybro Crystal, Gense etc, helping them create lucrative and strong design concepts and beautiful designs.
During the last year the company has extended it´s design business to an international market with clients such as Benesse (Japan), Villeroy & Boch (Germany), EQ3 (Canada), Miniso (Japan) and Tai-trust (China).
Lifestyle Products
Our Designers are selected for their design credentials, industry experience and professionalism. Click product images to link through to their profiles, add your favourite designers to your online studio and brief designers who have potential.
Featured Designer: Mario Alessiani
The functional beauty is the main core of Mario design, where the attention is not focused on shaping but on HOW TO SHAPE, in order to have the most efficiency in the production phase and the object has the will to communicate with its aspects, communicating people how they are done in the most honest way. He has been selected among the best under 30 Italian creatives.
Pattern and Illustration
Our Designers are selected for their design credentials, industry experience and professionalism. Click product images to link through to their profiles, add your favourite designers to your online studio and brief designers who have potential.
Featured Designer: Katy Binks
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Featured Designer: Vahekeny Rodrigues
I respect the importance of maintaining traditional hand applied processes in combination with digital technologies. I believe that the creative process captures the value of applying both skill and knowledge whilst supporting sustainable practices.
BuyDesign Resources
Here you can find detailed explanations of the different features on the platform for buyers and designers. This is a growing resource page which we will be adding to as to further improve the experience of BuyDesign.
If you have any questions about how BuyDesign works, or need specific assistance do not hesitate to write to us either on the contact page, or via info@buydesign.com
Account setup
At BuyDesign, your account is completely private, and you can edit all of your account information as needed. To access your account settings, simply navigate to the “Account” section on the website. From there, you can update your personal information, such as your address, phone number, and social links.
Image Guidelines
To ensure coordination and consistency, all images of products should use the standard BuyDesign image templates. These templates include company logos, designer portraits, product images (such as furniture, lighting, and accessories), and pattern and illustration mock-up examples.
Royalty calculator
Use the BuyDesign Royalty Calculator to estimate the average Annual Royalty Flows over a period of years. Input the RRP and wholesale price of your product, adjust variables like the percentage of royalties and expected sales volume, and see how they affect your potential earnings.
Buyers
Find helpful resources for setting up your account, creating briefs, browsing the marketplace, and saving products to moodboards. Our collection of resources will help you maximise your experience on buydesign.com
Designers
Find helpful resources for setting up your account, creating your first products, receiving briefs, answering open calls and more. Our collection of resources will help you maximise your experience on buydesign.com
Payment information
BuyDesign uses Stripe Connect as its payment system to facilitate secure and reliable transactions between buyers and designers.
Stripe Connect offers various payment methods and features to ensure seamless payments. If you need help setting up your Stripe Connect account, refer to the Designer Setup section or contact our support team.
Connect to our international designers
Create your design studio by connecting to our global, ever-expanding hub of professional designers, from innovative graduates to internationally renowned studios.
Gain access and create your studio with our diverse, international network of designers, whose furniture, lighting, pattern, illustration, and industrial designs are waiting for you to discover.
