Rickard is a furniture and object designer based in the North East of England. His latest work explores the anachronistic aesthetics of adaptive reuse. His middle name is Magnus.
Drawing on a part rural Norwegian and part Yorkshire mill-town upbringing, he has an appreciation for improvised repair, maintenance, and the ingenuity and quiet charm of 'making do'. His approach to designing and making is that of a remixer with adhocist sensibilities: an assembler of gathered remnants, where the knowing use and reference to existing things adds richness and resonance to new objects.
Rickard has experience of lecturing, teaching, and mentoring across a range of contexts, from higher education to community-based projects. He is an Assistant Professor at Northumbria University and a director of the North East based art and design community project Kids Kabin. At Northumbria, He coordinates the postgraduate Designers in Residence scheme and the Tools for Everyday Life project.
And yes, he has written this in the third person.