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RDInsights

Royal Designers for Industry

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Frequency: 1 episode/25d. Total Eps: 50

RDInsights is a biweekly podcast series where Mike Dempsey RDI interviews, both current and archived recordings, with distinguished Royal Designers for Industry. Through these conversations, we can gain insight into the minds of some of the most influential cross-disciplinary creative thinkers. Mike gives us a peek into their lives and practice as they discuss their journeys, challenges and successes in the design world.

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#64
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15/09/2026
#31
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12/08/2026
#67
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11/08/2026
#72
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10/08/2026
#47
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09/08/2026
#30
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Design
08/08/2026
#19

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Jo da Silva

Season 1 · Episode 50

Tuesday, August 4, 2026 • Duration 01:06:03

Jo da Silva is Global Director of Sustainable Development at Arup, where she leads the company's response to the climate, biodiversity and equity crises, and is an Arup Fellow. She founded Arup International Development, bringing the firm's expertise to projects across the Global South, and has led major building, infrastructure and urban regeneration programmes worldwide, including extensive work in disaster and humanitarian settings.

Jo holds an honorary doctorate in Humanitarian Engineering from Coventry University, received the Institution of Structural Engineers' Gold Medal in 2017, and was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire this year for her services to international development.

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Jenny Frean

Season 1 · Episode 49

Tuesday, June 23, 2026 • Duration 40:51

This is an RDInsights Archive recording from 2021 with textile designer Jenny Frean RDI, known for her refined use of colour, versatility and distinctive pattern construction. In conversation with Mike, Jenny reflects on the many stages of her long creative path and fascinating career, which in later life has evolved into a highly personal solo practice, allowing her to connect directly with the public through the online marketplace.

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Arnold Schwartzman

Season 1 · Episode 48

Thursday, March 26, 2026 • Duration 01:13:40

Mike recently caught up with Arnold Schwartzman, RDI, for a brief follow-up to the original RDInsight recording from 2006. Arnold’s career began in the 1960s and spans television and editorial work, photography, branding, book design, and filmmaking, during which he won an Oscar for his documentary Genocide. And in later years, he became something of a favourite on the cruise circuit, giving talks on all manner of creative subjects. Now at 90, Arnold is still working away on new projects.

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Ivan Chermayeff

Season 1 · Episode 47

Tuesday, February 3, 2026 • Duration 59:45

Mike Dempsey is in conversation with the legendary graphic designer Ivan Chermayeff, Honorary RDI (1932 - 2017). Born in Britain, the son of the notable Russian architect Serge Chermayeff, Ivan made his career in the United States, creating many iconic logos, visual identities and design projects around the world. His legacy lies not just in the well-known logos and visual identities we see every day, but in the idea of design as “clear thinking made visible”, elegant, functional, and enriched with intelligence and joy. I was very fortunate to have had this conversation with him. I hope you enjoy it. Archive recording date: 21 Aug 2007.

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Marion Deuchars

Season 1 · Episode 46

Thursday, January 15, 2026 • Duration 01:19:50

This is an RDInsights Archive recording from 2021 with the writer and illustrator Marion Deuchars RDI, who believes that everyone would benefit from living a creative life. In the interview, Marion talks about her childhood, her work, and what it was like to live and work under lockdown. Her creative activity books have sold worldwide, inspiring people to discover their own inner creative potential. Mike Dempsey RDI recently caught up with Marion again to see what she’s been up to since that original 2021 interview, and you can hear their new conversation immediately after the archive recording.

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Georgina von Etzdorf

Season 1 · Episode 45

Tuesday, December 16, 2025 • Duration 01:00:21

This is an RDInsights Archive recording from 2009 with the textile designer Georgina von Etzdorf RDI, whose work is celebrated for its wonderful use of colour and its unique mastery of design. Mike Dempsey RDI recorded this conversation 16 years ago, up in the hills of Málaga, Spain, where Georgina still escapes our dark, cold UK winters and spends much of her time painting.

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Teucer Wilson

Season 1 · Episode 44

Tuesday, December 2, 2025 • Duration 55:57

Mike Dempsey RDI is joined by Teucer Wilson, one of the UK’s leading stone carvers and letter cutters. After studying stonemasonry and carving at Weymouth College, Teucer completed a five-year apprenticeship with the distinguished stone cutter Richard Kindersley, cutting tens of thousands of letters and immersing himself in a tradition tracing back through David Kindersley. Since establishing his Norfolk workshop in 2000, he has created memorials, public artworks, sculptures, and commissions for hospitals, gardens, and civic spaces. His work combines the rigour of craft with a deep sensitivity to form, texture, and material, always mindful of how stone holds memory and meaning.

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Sebastian Cox

Season 1 · Episode 43

Thursday, November 6, 2025 • Duration 56:08

Mike Dempsey RDI is in conversation with furniture designer, maker and environmentalist, Sebastian Cox. He is renowned for his nature-first approach to making, his championing of British woodlands, and his ability to weave centuries-old traditions into contemporary design. His studio in Margate, Kent, is not just a workshop, but a statement: of zero-waste, carbon-awareness, and regeneration. We follow Sebastian’s path from growing up in the Kent countryside to shaping a design philosophy that looks to nature as the ultimate collaborator.

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David Gentleman

Season 1 · Episode 42

Tuesday, September 9, 2025 • Duration 01:02:19

This is an RDInsights Archive recording from 2010, when I spoke at length with the distinguished illustrator and graphic designer David Gentleman RDI, then celebrating his 80th year. It remains a rich and in-depth conversation, full of insight into his remarkable career and outlook. Now, fifteen years on, and with David at the age of 95, I caught up with him once again. This time our conversation was briefer, but no less engaging, as I asked what he had been up to in the intervening years. That new recording has now been added directly after the original 2010 interview, creating a fascinating pairing across time.

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Dinah Casson

Season 1 · Episode 41

Tuesday, July 15, 2025 • Duration 01:43:36

This RDInsights interview with Dinah Casson RDI was recorded in 2015 by Mike Dempsey RDI. In it, Dinah reflects on her childhood and her creative journey to becoming one of the UK’s leading interior and exhibition designers. Mike recently caught up with Dinah again to hear what she’s been doing over the past decade; an update of this conversation has been added to the end of this archive recording.

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