Martin Lupton - Design Consultant

Martin brings his 25 years of experience in design thinking and a PhD from Liverpool School of Architecture to the Boost portfolio. He is a hands-on designer who loves to solve problems, acting as an energising catalyst in any engagement. He injects an authentic style and approach that is definitely not traditional legal, helping clients to advance innovation and design solutions putting people, user experiences and adoption at the centre.

Martin is a former director of BDP, the UK’s largest multi-disciplinary, architecture led design practise. His innovation and success in substantially increasing the volume of design work awarded to the firm was directly connected to his leadership to bring together a unique team of diverse individuals (lighting designer, fine artists, craftsmen etc.) and empower them in a collaborative work group to challenge the norm and produce truly outstanding briefs.

Martin went on to co-found his current private practise, Light Collective. In addition to design projects, the Light Collective also design and deliver events and campaigns created to stimulate engagement with target audiences and the wider market , generating new user experiences and business opportunities. Examples include pop-up restaurants in derelict buildings around the world, curating and creating international trade shows (including [d]arc at Truman Brewery in Shoreditch, London), devising and hosting a global awards programme, creating workshops to demonstrate the social value of good lighting and a successful campaign to promote the work of Women in Lighting.

As a key part of his design thinking process, Martin builds and tests prototypes for projects and ideas using custom software and user-centric interactive control. He believes that engaging the right people in a team, helping them to be open to creativity and non-perfection through prototyping/testing are all critical parts of the design thinking process, which can be adapted to legal challenges where a different flavour of creativity and problem solving is needed.

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