Northwards Design Studio was started in 2002, as a vehicle for designer Chris Jackson to explore creative ideas and design projects. Since it's inception, the studio has worked on a wide range of projects, varied in both scope and discipline.

Chris has been fortunate enough to come into contact, and collaborate with, many exciting and dynamic individuals and companies within the world of design. These include Marset, Habitat, Scarlet Projects,
Affect, Sam Johnson, Ten Designers, Jon Hares, Foster + Partners, Nicola Jane, Dark, Richard Shed,
Ed Carpenter, 100% Design, TwentyTwentyOne, The V&A, Peter Mac Cann, The Crafts Council, DesignBoom, Manual Magazine, Innermost, Charles Keen, Draught Associates, The Great Eastern Hotel, Haworth UK, Plan, The Guardian, Object, The New Dowse, COCA, Ponoko and Urban Outfitters.

Chris believes that this collaboration has been key in the success of a number of award winning and critically acclaimed projects, Including Pythagoras (Winner Bernhardt Design / ICFF Studio 2009), the double award winning 'Ten' (100%/Blueprint Award - Best Contribution, Sunday Times Award - Excellence in Design and Sustainability), 3x3 Light (ADI FAD Delta Award Seleccion, ICFF Editors Choice Best Lighting 2006 - Marset Collection), LTO Chair (Winner Promosedia Caiazza Memorial Challenge 2003) and Time:Frame.

We are pasionate about design, good and bad. We are also fascinated with new materials, manufacturing processes, social networking, art, sustainable design, nano technology, fashion, interaction design, design history, travel, textiles, print, graphics and everything and anything else that makes a good design studio evolve and continue to produce relevant work.

Tom Dixon, amongst others, has feted Chris Jackson as a name to watch out for in the future, and his work has garnered much attention from the design press, featuring in publications including Domus, Axis, Blueprint, Intramuros, ID, Wallpaper*, ICON, Elle Decoration and On Diseno, as well as online zines such as Apartment Therapy, Designspotter, Inhabitat, PSFK and Designlines. His work has been displayed at numerous global locations, including New York, London, Brussels, Barcelona, Berlin and Milan.

Chris has delivered lectures and taught at some of the worlds most respected design institutions including: Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication (UK), Kingston University (UK), Central St. Martins (UK), London Met (UK), and Raffles Design Institute (Vietnam).

Chris is currently Senior Tutor in Industrial Design at Massey University (NZ).