Strategic design & Ventures consulting.
We combine design, strategy, and venture expertise to help businesses develop products, services, and partnerships that drive commercial growth and innovation.
Our strategic design offering.
We apply design thinking to multi-disciplinary projects and ventures across industries, bridging physical and digital innovation. Our work spans the entire design process—from stakeholder engagement and strategy development to design execution and commercialisation—delivering impactful solutions backed by deep sector expertise.
We collaborate with start-ups and established businesses to shape and refine their products, services, and experiences, ensuring they align with broader business objectives. Through a multi-disciplinary approach that integrates Experience, Service, Industrial, and Product Design, we help companies unlock new value and drive meaningful growth.
Beyond product innovation, we support organisations in commercialising internal ideas and fostering connections with the wider innovation ecosystem. Our expertise extends to venture development, funding, and strategic partnerships, helping businesses navigate emerging opportunities and solve industry challenges, including those in the built environment.
By combining design, strategy, and venture expertise, we empower businesses to transform ideas into commercially viable solutions with lasting impact.
Supporting start-ups in the luxury space.
We have experience in advising and supporting early-stage founders in the design side of creating new luxury brands, particularly with watches, jewellery, and related industries where an understanding of mechanical complexity and a sensitivity to materials and manufacturing techniques is essential.
We provide the research, shaping, and design skills required to build a strong brand identity, as well as the complete design services required to create and develop initial products or collections for new luxury brands. Once products are developed, we can also design the associated packaging and other POS materials that are required to launch the brand.
Mogu Foresta - a project our founder delivered at Arup.
Arup and Italian biodesign firm, Mogu, launched one of the world’s first mycelium acoustic panel systems, providing companies with a more sustainable option for reconfiguring their workspaces for the post-pandemic world. As businesses prepare for employees to return to in-person working, the Foresta system can help create high quality, creative working spaces. With many firms adopting a hybrid approach to working, splitting time between home and the workplace, office spaces need to be reconfigured to match the move to activity-based work, creating zones suited for creative co-working.
Arup’s collaboration with Mogu in the development of Foresta is representative of opportunities throughout our built environment to increase the sustainability of the products we use, by adopting bio-composites and other natural materials. Combining established technical expertise with new material technologies gave our team the confidence to design and engineer a solution that is appropriate for a healthy return to our spaces in a post-pandemic world.
Imagery belonging to Mogu, work carried out at Arup.
