Wayne Hemmingway Announced as MC for BIID Interior Design Awards

 

 

Morecombe born and Blackburn raised, English entrepreneur and designer, Wayne Hemingway graduated in Geography and Town Planning at University College, London and subsequently an MA in Fashion at the University of Surrey. Both Wayne and his wife Gerardine received MBEs in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list of 2006, for their services to the design industry. Wayne is a Professor in The Built Environment Department of Northumbria University, a Doctor of Design at Wolverhampton, Lancaster and Stafford, and an Honorary Fellow of Blackburn College, the University of Cumbria and Regents University.

With Gerardine, they built the fashion brand Red or Dead from a 2nd hand clothes market stall into a globally celebrated label and after 2 decades, sold it in a multi-million-pound deal to Pentland group. A new adventure began with HemingwayDesign, a multi-disciplinary, award-winning design studio.

Unrestricted by house style or process, their passion for sustainability, social responsibility and using design to improve lives, has encompassed a wide variety of clients including Shelter, The National Trust, St. Mowden, Southbank Centre and TFL. Successfully working on diverse and critically acclaimed culture-led regeneration projects, urban and interior design, council housing, multi-arts festivals, helping to rebuild Dreamland in Margate and co-designing the new Transport for London uniforms.

More recently, as well as continuing to be leaders in design that repurposes, rethinks and minimises waste, Wayne co founded the CHARITY SUPER.MKT concept. Bringing a new and relevant charity retail into the 21st century, this project uses existing town centre, vacant, retail spaces and transforms them into must-visit, purposeful destinations, selling 2nd hand fashion and accessories. The first of its kind opened in Brent Cross in early 2023, with national and local charities collaborating for a multi-charity department store, The sales figures the press coverage and the customer reaction has been phenomenal and the concept is now touring the UK. As this is written Charity Super.Mkt is perhaps the UK’s hottest retail format  

Wayne has an extensive TV and radio background (from being a weekly presenter on the Big Breakfast, to a regular on Newsnight).  

Thank you to our sponsors

The BIID Interior Design Awards is sponsored by Headline Sponsor Havwoods.

Our commercial sponsors are: ABI Interiors and Sofas and Stuff.

Our residential sponsors are: ABI Interiors, Christopher Hyde Lighting, Decorex, and Sofas and Stuff.

Attend the Awards Ceremony

Tickets for the awards ceremony are now on sale, which will include an arrival drinks reception and a 3-course dinner.