Plurality Player®

Conversations with the living world

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 a decade ahead

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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

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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

First Futures®

Futures for everyone

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A free four-hour virtual workshop making futures methodology accessible to anyone, delivered through FigJam and Miro. Combined design research, creative direction, visual design, and workshop design to develop six progressive exercises, the supporting templates and facilitation guides, and the full open resource.

CreditsCreative Director: 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