Designed for Life - In conversation with Leia Milburn

About this episode

Leia Milburn discusses her journey as an industrial designer and the influences that shaped her career.

Leia Milburn is an industrial designer working at Tone Product Design in London. Leia was born in London but grew up in Hong Kong and Singapore. Her father is a D&T teacher and trained as a furniture designer, so she was raised around strong design influences, but has developed her own unique identity as a designer through her degree at Loughborough University and subsequent work at Tone. In this podcast, we follow Leia's journey from her school education and parental influences to ...

People in this episode

Host: Tony Ryan

Guest: Leia Milburn

Topics covered

• industrial design
• education
• parental influence
• design journey
• personal identity

Keywords

• industrial design
• Tone Product Design
• Loughborough University
• design influences
• personal identity

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Tone Product Design, Loughborough University

Places: London, Hong Kong, Singapore

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