Business & Creative Project Designer
Brighton, United Kingdom
- Education
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- University of Warwick - Warwick Business School
- Connections
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- Industry
- Design
- Websites
Matt Weston’s Summary
Matt likes coming up with ideas for new projects and businesses and working out if they are viable or not.
If they are, he works to attract the money, knowledge, design, space and people in order to make them happen.
Matt works for himself and for other people.
(He is also part of a rebel alliance of nice, creative businesspeople who overlap projects and pitch jointly for work.)
Right now, he's mostly working on city / urban design projects,
such as Slack Space Brighton- a movement he started with Charlie Davies (ex- Features Editor at The Face) to put new projects into unused, empty, missing buildings (and have everybody happy about it); a regeneration project around New England House- a brutalist building in central Brighton that houses many of the city's creative / startup projects; a Startup School (with Phil Jones, Wired Sussex)- a homage to stuff like Y Combinator, Howies' DO Lectures, Bauhaus, KaosPilots, etc; and Likemind Brighton- a self-organising, creative network.
Currently / recently he's working / worked with public (eg UnLtd, Make Your Mark), semi-public (Wired Sussex, The Werks) and private organisations (Last.fm, Mint Digital). Mostly business & creative project design- but also other stuff, like event design, and idea development for tv.
In the past, Matt set-up smallbusiness.co.uk and raised six-figure investment from the likes of Lloyds TSB and Microsoft.
He then founded the quite successful and very well loved Business Bricks website: funded entirely by reader donations (and a big contract with Google).
Matt Weston’s Education
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University of Warwick - Warwick Business School
BSc , Management Science , 1992 — 1995
Additional Information
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The Farm
Matt Weston’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- consulting offers
- new ventures
