Kirsty Whyte
Kirsty Whyte is an award winning UK designer.
After her First Class Degree in BA (HONS) Decorative Arts, where she specialised in kiln formed glass, Kirsty exhibited at several international Fairs and worked at Habitat, Tom Dixon, Raw Edges and Made.com as the Design Product Manager based in Shanghai.
Now London based Kirsty is the Product and Design Manager for heritage retailer Heal’s. Where she works on in-house design and development briefs across furniture and upholstery and also manages the annual Heal’s Discovers initiative.
Kirsty is also a Co-Founder and Creative Director for a new London based watch brand; Freedom To Exist. In April 2016 they were successful in funding their Kickstarter campaign for a larger watch 40mm watch & is currently on pre-sale on the Freedom To Exist website.
"Freedom is the freedom to choose, to fall in love, to wear what you want, how you want to. It’s the freedom to exist."
Kirsty has had items manufactured by Made.com, Modus, Oliver B, Heal’s and Normann Copenhagen, and freelanced for Dwell, Next & British Home Stores.