Plurality Player®

Conversations with the living world

2025

A portable device exploring how humans could communicate with nature, designed as part of Symbiotic Systems, a wider project imagining life in 2030 shaped by artificial general intelligence and climate breakdown. Combined futures research, creative direction, product design, experience design, and film direction to bring the device to life, released as a speculative advert.

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CreditsExecutive Creative Director: Conner EastwoodFilm Direction, VFX, Animation: Ewan McIntoshSound Design: George Davies

Circular Assistant®

Everyday regeneration

2025

An AI-powered audio companion guiding everyday choices toward regenerative living, designed as part of Symbiotic Systems, a wider project imagining life in 2030 shaped by artificial general intelligence and climate breakdown. Combined futures research, creative direction, product design, experience design, and film direction to bring the assistant to life, released as a speculative advert.

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CreditsExecutive Creative Director: Conner EastwoodFilm Direction, VFX, Animation: Ewan McIntoshSound Design: George Davies

Temporal Transmitter®

Broadcasts from possible futures

2025

A radio-like device tuning into broadcasts from possible climate futures between 2030 and 2100, designed as part of Symbiotic Systems, a wider project imagining life in 2030 shaped by artificial general intelligence and climate breakdown. Combined futures research, creative direction, product design, experience design, and film direction to bring the device to life, released as a speculative advert.

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CreditsExecutive Creative Director: Conner EastwoodFilm Direction, VFX, Animation: Ewan McIntoshSound Design: George Davies

Extinction Clock®

The cost of time

2025

A split-flap display tracking human population, species decline, and extinction events toward 2100, designed as part of Symbiotic Systems, a wider project imagining life in 2030 shaped by artificial general intelligence and climate breakdown. Combined futures research, creative direction, product design, experience design, graphic design, and film direction to bring the device to life, released as a speculative advert.

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CreditsExecutive Creative Director: Conner EastwoodFilm Direction, VFX, Animation: Ewan McIntoshSound Design: George Davies

Karma Lamp®

Accountability you carry

2025

A bedside device translating daily climate impact into proportional UV exposure during sleep, designed as part of Symbiotic Systems, a wider project imagining life in 2030 shaped by artificial general intelligence and climate breakdown. Combined futures research, creative direction, product design, experience design, and film direction to bring the device to life, released as a speculative advert.

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CreditsExecutive Creative Director: Conner EastwoodFilm Direction, VFX, Animation: Ewan McIntoshSound Design: George Davies

Decision Diffuser®

The smell of consequence

2025

An olfactory device translating daily choices into the visceral smells of the supply chains they sustain, designed as part of Symbiotic Systems, a wider project imagining life in 2030 shaped by artificial general intelligence and climate breakdown. Combined futures research, creative direction, product design, experience design, and film direction to bring the device to life, released as a speculative advert.

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CreditsExecutive Creative Director: Conner EastwoodFilm Direction, VFX, Animation: Ewan McIntoshSound Design: George Davies

Temporal Tactics®

Futures in your hands

2025

A deck of 56 provocation cards organised across 12 categories, each carrying its own original illustration to stretch thinking about possible futures. Combined design research, creative direction, brand design, graphic and visual design, illustration, and print production to develop the system, illustrate every card, and deliver the full physical deck from packaging through to print-ready artwork.

CreditsCreative Director: Conner Eastwood

2035 Futures

Imagining tomorrow with Samsung Design Europe

2025

A three-month futures engagement exploring what 2035 might look like across technology, society, and the environment. Combined futures research, design research, creative direction, and speculative artefact design to develop five future scenarios, design provocative artefacts within each, and translate the work into a strategic opportunities report.

CreditsCreative Director: Conner Eastwood

Orb®

Algorithmic care

2024

A handheld device exploring decentralised psychedelic therapy through bone-conduction earphones and biometric monitoring, designed for a near future where mental health support has become increasingly commercialised. A provocation, questioning what happens when human wisdom is replaced by algorithmic care. Combined futures research, creative direction, brand design, product design, service design, and film direction to bring the project to life, released as a speculative advert.

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CreditsExecutive Creative Director: Conner EastwoodFilm Direction: Ewan McIntosh

Student Futures

Reimagining the student experience

2023

A strategic vision project reimagining the student experience at an academic institution, delivered in partnership with a major tech provider. Combined design research, co-design with students, service design, visual design, and reporting to deliver journey maps, service blueprints, and a strategic vision centred on accessibility and inclusion that ran alongside the product's implementation plan.

CreditsLead Designer & Experience Lead: Conner Eastwood

Circular Fashion

Lifecycle as standard

2023

A strategic vision project envisioning the future of sustainable and circular fashion, developed with a major tech provider and a fashion brand. Combined design research, narrative development, user journey mapping, and visual design to explore how green blockchain could track a garment's environmental impact across its full lifecycle, making provenance and circularity a standard proposition in itself.

CreditsLead Designer: Conner Eastwood

Civic Futures

Megacities, made playable

2023

A critical card game and research book exploring and critiquing potential megacity futures across multiple domains, designed for a national government and used by senior stakeholders in urban development. Combined futures research, game design, graphic design, and print design to develop the game system, design every card, and produce both the deck and the accompanying research book.

CreditsSenior Designer: Conner Eastwood

Urban Stories

Five lives in a future city

2023

A collection of five narrative stories set in a possible future city, each following a different inhabitant across a day in their life, designed for a policy think tank exploring urban futures. Combined futures research, worldbuilding, creative direction, concept design, and animation to bring the stories to life in a comic-book style, across physical books and animated films.

CreditsSenior Designer: Conner Eastwood

Futures Cards

Provocations for leadership

2023

A set of provocation cards designed for the senior leadership of a world-leading brand to explore future scenarios relevant to their industry. Combined futures research, creative direction, and graphic design to design the card system, generate the imagery, and deliver the full physical deck as a strategic tool.

CreditsSenior Designer: Conner Eastwood
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01About me

I'm Conner Eastwood, an award-winning designer and director based in London. A decade of work in brand, digital, product, experience, strategy, film, and immersive. Spanning experiential studios, innovation labs, global consultancies, and independent practice. I lead, design, and ship work that's strategic in thinking, future-facing in ambition, and alive with detail. Visiting tutor at the Royal College of Art and Central Saint Martins. This is my freelance practice, the counterpart to the futures design and strategic innovation work I lead at StudioCone.

02How I work
Strategic

Always ensuring the question is the right question, and planning around the risks.

Innovative

Fluid across disciplines, methods, and processes. Always working with new technologies and skillsets.

Playful

Using experimentation and play to get there, whilst crafting everything to the highest standard.

Conscious

Responsible for what I design and what it leaves behind. Inclusive, equitable, and sustainable.

03Services
Art & Creative Direction
Brand & Identity Systems
Design Research & Strategy
Experience & Service Design
Facilitation & Workshops
Film, Motion & Experiential Direction
Futures & Foresight
Graphic & Visual Design
Interaction & Product Design
04Experience
2024 to NowFounder & Creative DirectorStudioCone, London
2025 to NowVisiting TutorRoyal College of Art and Central Saint Martins
2023 to 2024Lead Designer & Experience LeadPwC Experience Design
2021 to 2023Senior Visual DesignerPwC Experience Design
2019 to 2021Freelance Creative DirectorNUCCO, UNIT 9, Happy Finish
2019 to 2021Freelance Senior DesignerAMS, Alphabet Collective
2017 to 2019Associate Creative DirectorINITION, London
2017Design ResidentCCEI, South Korea
Education
BA Design, First Class Honours.
Goldsmiths, University of London.
Ranked 1st in the UK by The Guardian University Guide 2017.
05Selected Clients
Samsung
Google
RNIB
UCL
Burj Khalifa
Microsoft
BBC
Airbus
Volvo
Chanel
Recognition
Globally published award-winning Designer & Creative Director

Multiple studio awards at INITION. Whilst at StudioCone, won the Psychedelics Design Awards and featured in FRAME, Wired, Designboom, Gharage, LS:N Global, and Imagine.

06Contact me

I work with studios, agencies, production teams, and in-house creative departments. Available for freelance and contract work.

Email me
Conner EastwoodDesigner & Creative Directorcone@studiocone.comstudiocone.comLinkedIn