Ella Doran Design

The company of award-winning British designer Ella Doran specializes in surface design, furnishings, and material applications. In the late 1990s, Ella Doran made a name for herself with colourful placemats and coasters, creating innovative designs through her recognizable photography-based images and patterns. Ella Doran’s visually arresting and award-winning designs are the result of creative partnerships and collaboration. Having moved the company focus away from stock holding to made-to-measure, we now work directly with our customers and client collaborations to realize large and small-scale projects from residential to public realm spaces and hospital settings. Her well-established career has included clients such as Tate, Twentytwentyone, Paloma Picasso, Glasgow School of Art, Habitat, John Lewis, and the V&A. Her current focus is the exploration of new approaches in circular design that offer practical artistic solutions to address the challenges of product creation in a society where resources are finite. Her recent solo show and documentary on material circularity and transparency, ‘Sheep to Seat, Fleece to Floor’, was held at Yorkshire Sculpture Park in the summer of 2019. Ella loves combining colour with her bold graphical approach to design and seeks projects that draw on innovation and creativity to help push the industry toward a more regenerative and socially supportive economy.