User:HEPPLESTON/Fiona Hurst

Fiona Hurst (Born December 23, 1960 in Dover, UK) is a founder and Chief Designer at Forpeople.

A multi-faceted designer working in the automotive, architectural, aeronautical and product design fields.

Fiona is a founder member of Forpeople, a London, UK based design consultancy where she is Chief Designer Colour and Trend. Her work includes the new British Airways first class and business class cabins' look and feel, hotel interiors, Tata Motors show-cars, Coca Cola product, and retail interior/exterior.

Fiona studied at the Royal College of Art in Kensington, London, England and gained her Masters Degree in Textile Design. She went on to be a tutor in Weaving at the college while starting her own design consultancy 'Studio Monogram', running the business for 11 years until joining the automobile industry with Land Rover cars. As Design Manager at Land Rover she was responsible for interior designs for Range Rover, Discovery 3 and concept design. Fiona was subsequently selected to join a new team at Ford Motor Company's 'Premier Automotive Group design centre, at their purpose built 'Ingeni' studio in London's Soho, where she led design on Aston Martin cars, the Ford 'Faction' show-car, and products for the fashion industry under Ford Design Vice President J Mays.

Fiona is married with two children.