David Austen
Following his graduation from Ravensbourne College of Design with a degree in Industrial Design, David worked for a number of London’s leading design consultancies and ran his own business before joining Berry Place in 1997. Appointed as Managing Director following the management buyout of the business in 2006.
David heads up the team with primary responsibility for commercial and business development (amongst other things). Away from ‘the shop’ he loves his two girls, the great British countryside, good food and fast cars. Recently retired from 25 years of motorcycling, he still yearns for the wind in his hair... or what’s left of it!
Liam Warner
Liam graduated in model making at The Arts Institute at Bournemouth in 2009. After freelancing for 2 years at various model making and SFX companies he settled down in a permanent position at Berry Place.
As well as the more technical model making methods such as CAD and good old fashioned traditional machining, Liam is also competent in ‘mosaic-ing’, a technique perfected whilst at university.
If he isn’t making magic happen in the spray room, he enjoys music festivals, travelling (although not that accomplished at it) reminiscing about his Mini Cooper and playing squash.
When he isn’t hanging around trendy clubs and bars he’s hanging upside-down at the local climbing centre.
Richard Bell
Richard began making things on a slightly larger scale, working for Sunderland’s North East Shipbuilders, way back in 1983. Redundancy from the shipbuilding industry saw him return to college to complete a course in model making and design. After which he moved to London to work as a freelancer for a number of creative companies, and held a full time position at Planet Design before settling down at Berry Place in 2008.
Richard is a keen cross country runner, and an even keener home brewer who enjoys making his own real ale.