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Oscar Lhermitte is an industrial designer, entrepreneur and public speaker. Having graduated from Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art, he now runs his own studio between Paris and London. His process questions the role of products in everyday life and results in multidisciplinary outcomes such as product design, product invention, consulting, photography, video, exhibition curation, set design and art direction. His work has been exhibited and sold in institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art New York, the Design Museum London, the Conran Shop and the Cité du Design Saint-Etienne.
Between 2012 and 2021, he was the co-founder and director of Sidekick Creatives LTD, a London-Berlin-Paris based creative agency providing the tools and expertise required to launch Kickstarter campaigns. Sidekick has been nominated Design Of The Year 2014 by the Design Museum London.
In 2017, Oscar has been appointed Kickstarter Thought Leader amongst 6 other creatives.
He is a visiting tutor at the HEAD Geneva in MA Space & Communication and MA Media Design, the De Vinci Innovation Center in Innovation Research & Manufacturing and has previously taught at the Royal College of Art in MA Product Design.
Selected Exhibitions
2017
Guofeng Art Museum, Shenzhen China
No Randomness
2017
Wuhan Design Biennale, Wuhan China
No Randomness
2017
Galerie Tator, Lyon France
MOON, Making of
2017
ARoS Kunstmuseum, Aarhus Denmark
The Garden
2017
Clerkenwell Design Week, London England
No Randomness
2017
Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Saint-Etienne France
Popcorn, Art Design et Cinéma
2017
The Aram Gallery, London England
No Randomness
2016
Lodz Design Festival, Lodz Poland
No Randomness
2015
Designrejio, Kortrijk Belgium
No Randomness
2015
Tallinn Design Festival, Tallinn Estonia
No Randomness
2015
Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne France
No Randomness
2015
Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne France
Hypervital
2013
Design Biennale, Shanghai China
Night Time Dream Real
Talks
2017
KIKK festival, Namur Belgium
From Project to Product
2017
KIKK festival, Namur Belgium
Kickstarter your project
2017
The Cass – London Metropolitan University, London England
From Project to Product
2017
Kickstarter PWL camp, New York USA
I use Kickstarter
2017
Flourish Arts Council, London England
Do it
2017
ENSBA, Lyon France
Look around you
2015
Designrejio, Kortrijk Belgium
Look around you
2015
Designer’s talk, Tallinn Estonia
Understand today, design tomorrow
2015
Pecha Kucha, Tallinn Estonia
How to catch lobsters
2015
Makerversity, London England
Do the right thing
2014
Co-Innovate Brunel, London England
Doing it with the crowd
2014
Southbank, London England
Sidekick
2013
Lodz Design Festival, Lodz Poland
Pecha Kucha – Creativity in Britain
2013
100% Design, London England
Sidekick
2012
Royal Astronomical Society, London England
MOON
2011
Kosmica, London England
Urban Stargazing
2011
Royal Observatory Greenwich, London England
Urban Stargazing
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