Nottingham-based designer Mac Collins recently won the Emerging Designer Medal at the London Design Medal awards. In an exclusive interview, he tells Dezeen how he doesn't want to be pigeonholed as a "Black designer".
The 26-year-old furniture maker, who graduated from Northumbria University three years ago, is one of a small number of Black designers working in the UK. He told Dezeen that work by Black designers is rarely covered in university courses.
"I didn't really know of any Black designers," said Collins. "They weren't put to you by your college or university. And if it's not within the curriculum, you don't just naturally come across it."
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