Editorial Contributors
Sam Peters
An award-winning journalist, nature lover and student of sustainable practice, Sam is now the executive director of Planted with responsibility for our website’s editorial content. For Sam’s full biography click here.
Twitter: @planted_cities
Max Fraser
A respected design commentator across the media of books, magazines, exhibitions, video, and events, Max wants to broaden the conversation around contemporary design. As a consultant, he delivers content and strategy for a variety of public and private bodies in the UK and abroad, recent clients including A/D/O (MINI), Dassault Systèmes, Norwegian Embassy, Hermes, Dubai Design Week, 100% Design and Clerkenwell Design Week. He is the author of multiple design books including Design UK and Designers on Design, which he co-wrote with Sir Terence Conran. He owns Spotlight Press whose titles include London Design Guide and Dezeen Book of Ideas. As a journalist, Max works as a design correspondent for CNN Style and contributes to publications including Financial Times, Wallpaper*, icon, Blueprint, Surface, and Newsweek International.
Instagram: @maxfraserdesign
Becks Treharne
A qualified urban designer with a background in sustainability management and regeneration, Becks is passionate about designing quality places where people and nature can thrive together. Having grown up in South Wales, Becks is accustomed to being immersed in nature and wants to see more nature-based design within cities too. She is a keen advocate for this human-nature connection and its application on a city scale; biophilic urbanism. Having been inspired by the biophilic cities network, Becks dedicated her urban design dissertation at Cardiff University - where she earned a Masters in Urban Design - to transforming the Welsh capital into a biophilic city.
In March 2020, during lockdown, Becks started a small woodwork business with her father, Turned by the Tide. Together they create handmade products using reclaimed and sustainably sourced wood.
Roddy Clarke
Design journalist and creative director, Roddy covers many areas of design with a strong focus on the positive social and environmental impacts it can achieve. A regular contributor to Forbes, The Financial Times and the London Evening Standard, Roddy is also working on a new online restoration platform; The Restoration Collective. His passion for interiors, antiques and sustainability stems from a young age, learning directly from his father - a China and Porcelain restorer. Igniting a keen interest for reconditioning and handling luxury items, he moved in to the industry where he spent over four years managing multiple restoration projects for private clients, stately homes and larger public spaces.
Working as a freelance stylist and offering creative direction for brands led him back to his roots to discover the true purpose of design and its role within a future society where a conscious ethos and a beautiful aesthetic can be successfully merged. Roddy is an alumni of Cambridge University’s Institute of Sustainability Leadership.
Natasha Goodfellow
Natasha is a writer, editor and plant lover, contributing regularly to publications including Garden Illustrated, Elle Decoration and Country Life.
A former deputy editor of Homes & Antiques magazine, she was subsequently the fair manager on the launch of GROW London, the contemporary garden fair on Hampstead Heath. She has since worked with award-winning garden designer Luciano Giubbilei on his book, The Art of Making Gardens.
Natasha recently published A London Floral, a guide to the city’s unmissable destinations for flower lovers, and also curates art and design events at the Garden Museum.
Instagram @natasha_goodfellow
Grant Gibson
Grant Gibson is a UK-based design, craft and architecture writer and podcaster whose work has been published in places like The Observer, New Statesman, The Guardian, Daily Telegraph, FRAME, Dwell, House & Garden and quite a few 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. More recently he has been editor of Crafts and a contributing editor of the Dutch architecture title MARK. He was also the launch editor of the London Design Festival Guide and co-founded 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. In 2019 he launched the award-winning podcast Material Matters with Grant Gibson. Grant was made an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Art in 2011 and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Instagram @grant_on_design
Carolyn Dunster
Carolyn is a botanical stylist, planting designer and garden writer. She trained at the Inchbald School of Garden design and creates planting schemes for small urban plots. She grows as many flowers as possible in her own tiny garden in north London to use in her styling work. Her first book, Urban Flowers published by Frances Lincoln in 2017, shows readers how to do this for themselves. Her next book, Cut & Dry is a modern guide to growing and drying flowers, grasses and seed heads and will be published by Laurence King in spring 2021. Carolyn writes about flowers, plants and productive gardens for various UK gardening and lifestyle magazines.
Instagram @carolynrdunster