Grant Gibson is a UK-based design, craft and architecture writer and podcaster whose work has been published in The Observer, New Statesman, The Guardian, Daily Telegraph, FRAME, Dwell, House & Garden and many others.
During a long career in magazines, Grant has been editor of Blueprint, deputy editor of FX, and acting executive editor of the RIBA Journal, as well as editor of Crafts and contributing editor of the Dutch architecture title MARK. He was also the co-founder of Real to Reel, the UK’s first film festival devoted to making.
In 2014 he curated, Space Craft: Architecture Meets Making, at the Platform Gallery on London’s King’s Road, which subsequently went on to tour nationwide and in 2019 he launched the award-winning podcast Material Matters with Grant Gibson. Three years later the show was transformed into a new fair during the London Design Festival. This June see the launch of Material Matters Copenhagen.
Grant was made an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Art in 2011 and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.