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Rebecca Shipham

Rebecca Shipham

Freelance exhibition designer and founder of Ships & Pigs, specializing in trade stand design for global brands.

May 24, 2026

0:18
Let's start with one of my earliest guests on the podcast, and for that matter, one of my favorite company names, from Rebecca Shippam, who's an exhibition designer based in Hull.
0:28
The thing about Hull, for anyone that hasn't [laughs] been, or the North of England in general, you don't really s- play your own trumpet because people will think that you're conceited, shall we say.
0:39
So, [laughs] so I didn't want to sort of go out there and say Rebecca Shippam Design or Rebecca Shippam Creative, because it was just like, it's so self-centered.
0:46
It was my name.
0:47
So I thought, I'm gonna twist it and call myself Ships and Pigs, which is the ships and the pigs from the ham of my surname.
1:43
It made a difference for Rebecca.
1:45
I could start to refer to myself as a business.
1:48
And actually, it was good because then I started to feel like a business rather than me sat in my living room doing designs.

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