Jul 21, 2026 · 44 min · 14 segments
In this episode of Inside the Collective, Brad Amos sits down with Kristian Jones, a creative director, interior architect and experience designer whose work sits in the grey space between brand…
Christian JonesGuest
Brad AmosHost
Um, uh, educated as a furniture designer into ceramics, uh, at university, and then moved into, uh, teaching at a, um, youth offender's prison for, uh, half a year.
And then moved into a small design, uh, design and build, uh, business in Leicester for three years, um, which has now become quite a big hospitality business now.
But, um, and then worked in London for eight years, uh, working for a small boutique, uh, architecture firm where we looked at, um, uh, residential work, uh, commercial and, uh, private, um, as well as doing, uh, so co- corporate hos- uh, corporate interiors for, for offices.
Um, and then one of our sort of the sort of fun projects we used to work on were the Manolo Blahnik, uh, luxury s- stores around the world.
Um, and then I suppose post financial crisis fancied a bit of a change, and then, uh, got the opportunity to move to Singapore, uh, to work for Fitch.
I think that really shifted me from typical architectural space into thinking more strategically and a lot around brand and how to bring those sort of, uh, those sort of emotional sort of constructs together, uh, within, within different types of spaces and places.
I saw the opportunity into workspace and where strategy b- uh, between sort of workplace and retail, where there's quite similarities in seeing how I can move across.
So went and moved to Siren Design, uh, got to work on Google project, uh, and lots of other great, uh, places, and then moved to Unispace.
Uh, and now I've set up my own business for so two years working on some of my own projects, but also working with other companies as well on different types of retail, uh, projects, workplace projects, and I'm also working on an airport project at the moment.
Um, uh, educated as a furniture designer into ceramics, uh, at university, and then moved into, uh, teaching at a, um, youth offender's prison for, uh, half a year.
And then moved into a small design, uh, design and build, uh, business in Leicester for three years, um, which has now become quite a big hospitality business now.
But, um, and then worked in London for eight years, uh, working for a small boutique, uh, architecture firm where we looked at, um, uh, residential work, uh, commercial and, uh, private, um, as well as doing, uh, so co- corporate hos- uh, corporate interiors for, for offices.
Um, and then one of our sort of the sort of fun projects we used to work on were the Manolo Blahnik, uh, luxury s- stores around the world.
Um, and then I suppose post financial crisis fancied a bit of a change, and then, uh, got the opportunity to move to Singapore, uh, to work for Fitch.
I think that really shifted me from typical architectural space into thinking more strategically and a lot around brand and how to bring those sort of, uh, those sort of emotional sort of constructs together, uh, within, within different types of spaces and places.
I saw the opportunity into workspace and where strategy b- uh, between sort of workplace and retail, where there's quite similarities in seeing how I can move across.
So went and moved to Siren Design, uh, got to work on Google project, uh, and lots of other great, uh, places, and then moved to Unispace.
Uh, and now I've set up my own business for so two years working on some of my own projects, but also working with other companies as well on different types of retail, uh, projects, workplace projects, and I'm also working on an airport project at the moment.
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