Jane Dillon, Product Designer, UK

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Jane Dillon is one of very few women of her generation who have been internationally recognised for their contribution to design and education. Her enthusiasm for her subject has made her a magnet for those who share the same passion for innovation, subtlety and apt thinking in the details of design. Her studio hosts a stream of visitors eager to learn from her approach. Much of the work produced over the past twenty-five years is still in production internationally, which emphatically illustrates the quiet integrity that her contribution has made to the design life of those products.
Born Jane Young in 1943, she studied interior design at Manchester Regional College of Art from 1961 to 1965 and furniture design at the Royal College of Art from 1965 to 1968.

She was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Art in 2006 and awarded the Spanish ADI FAD Critics Prize for her work with Charles Dillon for the Actis and Jobber furniture ranges in 1980.