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Mark Osborne

Creative Director of Najberg Milne since 2005, Mark Osborne is a legend of modern design. His work has been exhibited in the Pompidou Centre, Paris, and London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, where examples are lodged in the permanent design collection.

Born in Kent to a family of artists, Mark had a youthful talent for mathematics, and throughout his career has balanced creativity with systematic rigour while remaining determined to broaden his experience across many disciplines. He has been a national news photographer, document designer in Western, Arabic and Farsi scripts, art school lecturer, and exhibited fine artist in both landscape and abstract idioms.

It is for the two award-winning design companies he co-founded and lead to enormous success that he is most widely known. The Small Back Room’s blue-chip clients included the BBC, McKinsey International, Mary Quant, Faber and Faber, the Arts Council and TNT, while the more innovative Autograph Design Partnership’s counted Channel Four, Marks & Spencer, Max Factor, Courtaulds Textiles, Olswang solicitors and the Government of Turkey among its clients.

A Royal Academy Summer Exhibition artist and Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Artists, Mark divides his time between London and Venice.

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... and the other members of the NM team

Eva Najberg

Eva Najberg

David Milne

David Milne

Jean Sébastien Pigeau

Jean Sébastien Pigeau

François Maurin

François Maurin

Christine Russ

Christine Russ

Wendy Fitzgerald

Wendy Fitzgerald

Mark Osborne

Mark Osborne

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