Sam Coulton
I am a London based multidisciplinary designer & creative working across architectural, set and production design.
As Lead Designer for SWEAR Studio I have worked on the Brit Awards 2022, Gorillaz Live Shows 2023 and Blur at Coachella 2024. I am also the Architectural Designer of IICON for Block9 at Glastonbury Festival.
Awarded the Sir Banister Fletcher Medal for attaining the highest marks from the Bartlett School of Architecture in 2018, I am also Lecturer in Drawing and Digital Skills at UCL and have taught in London since 2015.
My academic work received a commendation for the RIBA Silver Medal and has been published in Dezeen. Whilst my thesis has been published in AJAR: Arena Journal of Architectural Research. I am also a current member of the RIBA Educational Development Group, working to help talented and disadvantaged students to achieve their degrees.
The projects featured are a selection of some of the public works I have been involved in.
I operate across multiple fields:
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Production design and creative consultancy for live music, stages, exhibitions and installations
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Spatial drawing
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Construction detailing and design coordination
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Concept deck creation and presentation
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Still and video rendering for spatial and installation designs
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Art and video direction with experience of multi-screen LED show design and realtime content pre-visualisation.
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Digital fabrication
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SpatialcClimate simulation
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Construction scheduling and build management
Proficient in: Adobe PS / Ai / Indd / Rhino / Vectorworks / Microstation / Grasshopper / Enscape / Twinmotion. With working knowledge of: Cinema 4D / Premiere / SketchUP / Daz3D /
Awards
2018
Sir Banister Fletcher Medal, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
2018
Fitzroy Robinson Drawing Prize, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
2017
Wren Scholarship, Royal Institute of British Architects, London
2016
Part 2/MArch Bursary, Royal Institute of British Architects, London
Group Exhibitions
2023
Brick By Brick, Portico Library, Manchester
2019
2018
London Is... Seoul biennale, Curator: Peter Bishop
Unit 12, Final Exhibition, Bartlett Summer Show
Publications and Links
2023
Portico Library, Brick by Brick Exhibition
2021
Design Studio Vol. 3: Designs on History - 2021
The Architect as Physical Historian. Edited by Jonathan Hill
2021
Cartographies of the Imagination. Book and Exhibition
2021
Swear Studio
2020
Irradiated Landscapes: Journey to Prospect Cottage
AJAR: Journal of Architectural Research
https://ajar.arena-architecture.eu/articles/10.5334/ajar.259
2018
Dezeen Article
2018
Block9
2018
RIBA Presidents Medals
http://www.presidentsmedals.com/Project_Details.aspx?id=4651#