Lucy Johnston is an author, exhibition curator and presenter. 

With over two decades of experience in innovation research and trend analysis, she travels extensively for commissioned projects – from the US to Japan, Brazil to China, and Iceland to India and Israel – studying developments across the global arts, cultural, science and technology sectors. 

She develops content programmes for international exhibitions, online destinations and retail/cultural events and pop-ups, that engage industry and public audiences in exploring creative excellence, cultural shifts and our future world.

In 2017 she was commissioned by the Duke of Richmond to curate the inaugural FUTURE LAB : LIVE , a technology and science exhibition campus which sits at the centre of the world-renowned Goodwood Festival of Speed in the UK. She continues to develop and curate the show annually, and it is now dubbed by Campaign as “one of the major technology shows in the world”.

Lucy also presents FUTURE LAB : THE PODCAST, available across all podcast platforms.

Her clients have included: WIRED magazine, The Crown Estate, Warner Music Group, SAGA, JP Morgan, Goodwood Festival of Speed, JaguarLandRover, Apple, Sony, Nike, Virgin Atlantic, Battersea Power Station, Telefonica, Pan Macmillan, Accenture, Julius Baer, Cisco and the UK Government.

Her first book DIGITAL HANDMADE, published internationally by Thames & Hudson in 2015, with a new edition in 2017, presented the first global survey of the ‘digital artisan’ movement, documenting the effects of the New Industrial Revolution on artistic culture and craftsmanship. Her title, THE CREATIVE SHOPKEEPER, draws on her previous years of commercial trend analysis and champions a new breed of entrepreneurial independent retailer.

Further books are a work in progress.

"3D printing has come of age and this beautiful book is proof. A stunning chronicle of the intersection between avante-garde design and cutting-edge technology." TIME Magazine

"Artisanship in the digital era: it sounds like a contradiction in terms. But Johnston's survey ... proves that it really needn't be; it would be odd and unfair to describe these things as anything other than works of art." The Observer

“[She] compares the current digital shake-up to the industrial revolution and concludes that the new tech has created opportunities and options, rather than rendered craft skills redundant." The Sunday Times