Transparent product design was created in June 2012 by Peter Phillips.
During his 40 year experience Peter has consulted with many national and international companies on the design and development of a diverse range of products. Over this time he has built a specialist knowledge in the Pro Audio Industry. He has worked with Soundcraft for over 10 years designing all the iconic consoles of the nineties including the Delta and all of the SPIRIT products. In 2003 he created the current ID and corporate identity for Stanton USA. He has also had a long history with working with Focusrite and their relationship with Digidesign with the Control 24 and Command 8 console working alongside Dave Froker. For the last 7 years Peter has been exclusively retained by Focusrite to create and maintain a product design strategy that covered all of its products and that of its sister company, Novation.
Photo courtesy of Focusrite
Peter Phillips
Peter’s early design experience was gained working for 3 leading UK consultancies before arriving at tangerine in 1990. His work before that with Nick Butler at BIB was largely for US base companies, Hussmann & Apple Computers and he continued this international flavour with Barry Weaver at Roberts Weaver this time with Far Eastern clients such as Hitachi, LG and Panasonic.
Peter joined tangerine as the fourth partner alongside Clive Grinyer, Martin Darbyshire and Sir Jonathan Ive, currently still VP of Design at Apple who is knighted for his services to Design. Peter was responsible for all aspects of company structure & personal, as well as the planning of the overall business and marketing strategy. His relationship with Far Eastern clients, in particular LG Electronics helped firmly establish tangerine as an international consultancy of high reputation. In the 14 years Peter was at tangerine he worked with companies such as Pace Micro Technology, Samsung, Alcatel, and British Airways.
In September 2003 Peter joined The Brewery as Managing Partner in charge of product design and strategy. The Brewery is a multi disciplinary agency combining media, environments, trend forcasting, packaging and product. He continued his relationship with LG Milan and added clients such as SunCorp, British Telecom, Stanton in USA and Haewei in China to the product portfolio. The cross fertilization of project within the Brewery allowed Peter to work with Colgate Palmolive and Eastman Chemicals on a major innovation programme.
In September 2007 he joined Rodd Design Limited as Director and in 2012 Peter formed transparent product design and continues his relationship with a number of UK clients. He also is a Visiting Tutor to the Arts University Bournemouth.