This episode of Breed presents… The Podcast is a conversation with creative director, editor and design consultant Tony Chambers. Tony is perhaps best known as the longest-serving editor-in-chief of Wallpaper*. He joined the magazine as Creative Director in 2003, was appointed Editor-in-Chief in 2007, and Brand and Content Director in 2017. He’s credited with not just transforming the magazine into a global brand with pocket city Guides, a website, a creative agency, a retail platform and interior design service, but also the whole way we thought about the design of the world around us.
Before arriving at Wallpaper*, Tony had studied at Central Saint Martins, before starting his career as Art Editor at The Sunday Times Magazine. From there he moved on to become Art Director at British GQ, where he was voted PPA Art Director of the Year twice in 1998 and 2001.
Tony still contributes to Wallpaper* since moving on from his senior role in 2018. Nowadays, he’s the founder of creative agency TC & Friends and started design and ideas platform OTOMOTO with artist Ryan Gander. Plus, he’s co-chairman of Fortune Magazine’s Brainstorm Design, an annual design and business conference held in Asia, and sits on the board of trustees of the Barbican Arts Centre, a place he has also made his home for many years.
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