Stephen Bayley

author, critic, curator, broadcaster and consultant, a regular and renowned contributor to The Guardian, The Times, The Spectator and other publications on all matters concerning design and architecture

Stephen Bayley is one of the world’s best-known authorities on design and popular culture.  Over the past thirty years his books, articles, exhibitions and London’s Design Museum (which he created) have helped frame the popular concept of design in everyday life.

He has been a consultant to Ford, The Coca-Cola Company, and the V&A. He is also well-known as an outspoken commentator on art and design, contributing regularly to The Times and The Daily Telegraph as well as a huge variety of consumer and trade magazines from GQ to The Lady. He often broadcasts and appears on various popular programmes including PM ,Today, Newsnight, Start the Week, Channel 4 News, London Tonight, and Any Questions.  Books include Woman as Design, Cars, Taste, Harley Earl and the Dream Machine and the Albert Memorial.  Design: Intelligence Made Visible (with co-author Terence Conran) which has been translated into ten languages and is, perhaps, the most influential history of design yet written.  His next book is called Ugly – the aesthetics of everything.

In addition, he has lectured in universities and museums throughout Britain and around the world. He has also been a judge of many national and international design competitions, including Campaign Press Awards, RIBA Architectural Awards, The Building Awards, Louis Vuitton Concours  d’Elegance at Hurlingham, Cartier Style et Luxe at Goodwood and BBC Good Food Awards.

In 1989 he was made a Chevalier de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France’s top artistic honour, by the French Minister of Culture.  He is also an Honorary Fellow of the RIBA, a Fellow of the University of Wales and a Fellow of The Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts.

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