Jo Barnard

Industrial designer, entrepreneur, author and speaker. Founder and Creative Director of Morrama.

Jo Barnard

About

I'm a trained industrial designer. I founded product design and innovation agency Morrama in 2015, aged 24, and have built it into a multi-award-winning team designing products for high-growth startups and forward thinking corporates.

I'm also a Director of Kibu, a circular kids-tech brand, and Eco-Flo Innovations, a plastic-free diagnostics company. In 2022 I co-founded Design Declares, a not-for-profit climate initiative with chapters now active in over 54 countries.

I believe designers have a responsibility to shape the world with care — from the resources we use to make products, to the digital technology and AI that powers them. I've authored the Sustainable Design Handbook, the Startup Guide: Taking a Product to Market, and most recently From People to Planet: Lessons from a Design Agency. I spent four years as an Associate Lecturer at the Royal College of Art, and my work has been featured in the BBC, WIRED, Dezeen and The Times.

Clients

Logitech, Diageo, Google, Unilever, Mokobara

Features

Talks & workshops

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