Sir John Sorrell, CBE

DESIGNER, CAMPAIGNER AND CHAIRMAN OF UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS LONDON

Sir John Sorrell set up design consultancy Newell and Sorrell with his wife Frances in 1976 and together they led the agency to become one of Europe’s largest, working with clients such as British Airways, Boots and Marks & Spencer, by the time of its merger with Interbrand in 1997. The couple also established the Sorrell Foundation in 1999 with the aim to foster creativity in young people. Sir John has gone on to influence the UK’s design industry in numerous other ways as the brains behind the London Design Festival and the Creative Industries Federation, a membership organisation for the public arts, cultural education and creative industries. He was appointed chair of the University of the Arts London in 2013. 

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