Studio — Collective Ten

We are an industrial design studio focused on the design of furniture, lighting and products for the international contract workplace, hospitality, and residential markets.

Colin Nourie is an American industrial designer and founder of Collective Ten.

For more than two decades, he has been designing furniture and products for an enviable list of international design brands.

Pairing a hands-on design approach and his seasoned professional experience, he has become a regularly sought-after design partner over his career to companies such as Herman Miller, Steelcase, Danao Living, Design Within Reach, Pavilion and Senator/Allermuir.

His work possesses a strong visual signature that is characterized by sophisticated minimal forms that effortless flow into each other creating designs with bold silhouettes.

Inspired by modern architecture, the values of contemporary living, and the vision of masterful craftsmanship, Nourie’s design work has garnered numerous international awards such as the IDEA Award, the GOOD DESIGN Award, the European Product Design Award, the IDA Award and the Neocon Gold Award.

Awards

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2023
Design Prize for Modern Furniture

2022
The Best of the Best - The Robb Report

2020
International GOOD DESIGN Award

2020
IDA- Silver Award

2019
European Product Design Award

2019
International GOOD DESIGN Award

2017
Nightingale Silver Award

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2013
Best of Neocon Gold Award

2009
Spark Product Design Awards Finalist

2009
International GOOD DESIGN Award

2005
Best of Neocon Gold Award

2002
International GOOD DESIGN Award

2002
IDEA Silver Award

2002
Neocon Citation of Excellence

Teaching & Community

A graduate of The Ohio State University’s industrial design program, Nourie has regularly served, as a critic and guest lecturer at the Weitzman School of Design at University of Pennsylvania, the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology, DAAP at the University of Cincinnati and the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture and Design at Indiana University.