Ilse Crawford is a designer, teacher and creative director.
As the founder of Studioilse, over two decades she has pioneered humanistic design in its real life application to environments, objects and experiences, always designing for positive mental and environmental impact.
This means understanding how design can help make us better humans. It means thinking about cause and effect, and addressing the bigger systems that underpin everything.
Crawford founded the department of Man and Wellbeing at the Design Academy Eindhoven.
Studioilse is a multifaceted, multidextrous design studio.
We have a reputation as the go-to team for design with rigour and integrity, whether for homes or hotels, restaurants or schools, offices or shops, furniture or objects, exhibitions and experiences. We are a values-driven studio and we make our own values and those of our clients visible in the work that we do. We talk about the power and potential of design as a catalyst for systemic wellbeing and a frame for life.
We are a team of ten with a range of skills between us spanning interior design, product design, architecture, creative direction, strategy and writing. Between us we speak ten languages and share lunch, cake, negronis and the washing up.
Principal
Director Products
Finance Director
Studio Manager
Creative Director
Senior Designer
Senior Designer
Senior Architect
Senior Architect
Designer
Junior Designer
Junior Designer
Junior Designer
Studioilse’s own workplace in a Grade II-listed former paper factory in Bermondsey. To accommodate the growing number of staff and different needs of the teams at different stages of projects, open plan space was divided with glass screens and sliding walls. Domestic in atmosphere with an abundance of natural materials and a beautiful kitchen at its heart, it brings the team together to foster a working culture around shared values in daily life.
