About Our Toy Designers
Rachel Wingfield
Designed Sphere
Rachel Wingfield is currently a Research Fellow at Central Saint Martins School of Fashion and Textiles, where she is researching the role surfaces and textiles can play in increasing energy efficiency, becoming active and self sufficient.
Based in London, Rachel set up Loop.ph with Mathias Gmachl to create and develop new reactive surfaces and structures. Her work has been exhibited internationally with the British Council and she has recently exhibited at the Design Museum and the V&A Museum in London.
For Rachel, design is the ability to learn from efficient systems in nature to improve living. “Nature is a huge influence in my work with a vast source of ideas that can be applied to design. I try to capture the dynamic, rich display of botanical life into everyday surfaces and have been inspired by the flowering and growth of plants. I constantly look to reference and learn from traditional and historical sources of decoration and embellishment, and I welcomed the opportunity to transform the plain surface of Sphere into an expressive, adorned object of the utmost intimacy.”
Scott Henderson
Designed C-Shell
Scott Henderson is an American designer who heads the New York based design studio Scott Henderson Inc. and is also Principal and Co-Founder of the design collective MINT where he designs, manufacturers and distributes home accessory objects to over 150 retailers and museums throughout the world.
Scott is known for his ability to transform the mundane. He believes that if something makes you smile it becomes easier to use. With over 50 patents in the U.S. and Europe for projects as diverse as housewares and home accessories to consumer medical products, electronics, even aircraft- his work has been widely recognized in exhibitions, awards programs and in the press. For Scott, design is not about a discussion of form versus function, it’s about thinking and the quality of the big idea.
Tom Dixon OBE
Designed Bone, and Ring (Limited Edition)
Tom is currently the Creative Director of Habitat, the home style and furniture retailer, and also runs his own design company, Tom Dixon. In 2000, he received an OBE for his service to design and innovation, and is one of the most acclaimed names in today’s design world.
Tom believes that design becomes interesting when you start looking at areas where design has never gone before. He felt that this uncharted territory was particularly evident in sex toys. It seemed extraordinary to him that objects destined for such intimate and pleasurable use were so devoid of quality in terms of design, manufacturing and material.
With Bone, Tom set out to address this by creating the finest vibrator ever made. The ergonomic shape of bone was inspired by ancient fertility symbols and in this modern incarnation the shape creates different intensities and patterns of vibration from different areas of its surface.
Mari Ruth Oda
Designed Pebble
Mari-Ruth Oda is a Japanese sculptural ceramicist who lives and works in Britain. Her work is inspired by the calm and serene environment of the traditional Japanese architecture and gardens; a quality she also strives to apply to her sculptures. Mari is also inspired by fruit, the human figure, the landscape and other natural forms. 
"I am interested in how the body becomes a negative space when moulding itself to the positive space of a human form. This interest encouraged me to make an object of beauty that would be tempting to hold and to explore, or explore with."
Marc Newson
Designed Mojo
Australian born Marc Newson is one of the most accomplished & influential designers of his generation. He has worked across a wide range of design disciplines to create furniture, household products and interiors for clients such as Alessi, Cappellini, Flos, Shiseido and Apple Computers. Marc has his own design company, Marc Newson, which is now based in Paris. 
Marc says “Diversity makes me happy. I see nothing strange in designing everything from a private jet to a sex toy, , there are obvious technical differences but the main difference is one of scale. I have personal relationships with all of my clients, when somebody asks me to do something for them, they’re getting a little bit of my DNA – appropriately enough in this case! My best ideas always happen at strange moments . . .”