Jamie McLellan

Jamie McLellan is Head of Design for Allbirds in San Francisco, where he’s been responsible for building the brand’s product terminology and design ethos. The early part of Jamie’s design career was spent working in Italy, Hong Kong and Hawaii, before eventually ending up in London working closely with internationally acclaimed designer Tom Dixon. Jamie then returned home where he then set up his own product and furniture design consultancy founded in Auckland, New Zealand.

His consumers included established global brands such as Cathay Pacific, Neil Pryde and Tom Dixon, along with innovative start-ups like Bodha, Resident, and Allbirds, which he ultimately joined as the brand’s first Head of Design. The products that Jamie has designed range from lighting to luxury watercraft, Olympic bicycles to beer taps, and furniture to woollen footwear. Often celebrating the engineering within, these designs can all be described as minimal with a singular maximal twist, or in Jamie’s words “just the right amount of nothing”.