Item NMC/0898 - Interact Architecture medal

Mairghread McLundie is a researcher at the Digital Design Studio, Glasgow School of Art. She graduated from Glasgow University in 1983 with a degree in Computing Science. Following ten years working in computer facilities management for a firm of consulting engineers, she enrolled at Glasgow School of Art, graduating with a degree in Design (Silversmithing and Jewellery) in 1997. An interest in the relative absence of computer systems in the applied arts formed the basis of study for a one year masters degree, titled "An Investigation into Interaction with Computer Systems for 3D Design and Modelling, in Terms of Interface and Process". Her recently completed Ph.D. research focused on the relationship between individual designers and the artefacts and media they work with in their design processes, and how differences in this relationship might inform the development of future digital environments for creative practice.

In November 2006, accomplished designer Joanne MacKellar took ownership of KALO. Jo graduated from The Glasgow School of Art Jewellery Department in 1997, following on with a Masters Degree from the Birmingham School of Jewellery in 2000. Since then she has been running JUNO DESIGN GALLERY alongside her mother, a textile designer, in Argyll. Jo has spent many years developing her skills in Jewellery design and manufacture and is constantly working on new ideas, her new collections now available at KALO.

Robertson (RCA) originally comes from the Isle of Bute, a small island off the west coast of Scotland, where she lived for 25 years. She studied silversmithing at the Glasgow School of Art and gained a first class honours degree which enabled her to go on to study at the Royal College of Art where she graduated in 2000 with an MA in silversmithing. Her work is mainly in sheet metal using restrained geometric forms and is continually inspired by the architectural landscape. She has a studio in London and works mainly to commission, dealing with individual clients or City livery companies for their silver collections. Linda also teaches at Central St. Martins and Richmond College.

Roger Millar studied silversmithing and jewellery design at the Glasgow School of Art, and the Royal College of Art, London. Following a period of bench experience and freelance design work in the fine jewellery trade in London, he entered higher education teaching, first in Wales, then Dundee and the United States, finally returning to the Glasgow School of Art as Head of the Department of Silversmithing and Jewellery in 1984. In the following 21 years under his leadership, S&J at GSA became established as one of the most enduring and important degree courses in the United Kingdom, and its recent graduates have contributed greatly to the strength in depth of the craft in Scotland and beyond. Millar was elected to the Freedom of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths and gained the Freedom of the City of London in 1985. In recognition of his significant contribution to education in design and craft, he was awarded, in 1999, an Honorary Professorship of the University of Glasgow at the Glasgow School of Art. He took early retirement from GSA in 2005 to concentrate full-time on his own studio work. He now continues to do some part-time and summer-school teaching and undertakes consultancy work in the UK and abroad.