Barber Osgerby is a London-based industrial design studio established in 1996 by British designers Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby.
Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby’s multidisciplinary portfolio encompasses furniture, lighting and product design as well as art and architectural-scale projects. They are both Royal Designers for Industry (RDI) and are past recipients of the Jerwood Applied Arts prize. Both are Honorary Doctors of Arts, and Osgerby is an Honorary Fellow of Ravensbourne. The pair have lectured internationally and their work is held in permanent collections around the world including the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; London’s Design Museum; and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Significant recent projects include the Tip Ton chair for Vitra (2011), the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Torches, and a £2 coin commemorating the 150th anniversary of the London Underground in 2013.
Barber and Osgerby are also founders of Universal Design Studio, a London-based architecture and interior design studio, and MAP, a London-based industrial design consultancy focused on design strategy.
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